Collaborations
Research Group Collaboration
Prof David Hornby , University of Sheffield, UK
Prof C. Neil Hunter FRS, University of Sheffield, UK
Prof Monde Ntwasa, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
Dr. Zenda Woodman, The University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr. Gavin Thomas, University of York, UK
Dr. Nur Zazarina Ramly, Universiti Sains Islam, Malaysia
Entrepreneurship Collaboration
African German Entrepreneurship Academy (AGEA)
Entropix Biotechnology Company of Prof David Hornby https://entropix.co.uk/
Sengenics Biotechnology Company of Prof Jonathan Blackburn https://sengenics.com/
International Bodies Association
Research Funding Bodies
BBSRC (The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council)
ERC (European Research Council)
MRC (Medical Research Council)
NIH (National Institute of Health)
National Research Foundation - South Africa
National Research Foundation - Singapore
Journals
Entrez PubMed (Retrieval of references from the PubMed database using the NCBI Entrez retrieval system)
PubCrawler (an Update Alerting Service for PubMed and GenBank)
Web of Knowledge (ISI Web of Science®)
Books
Protein Sequences Database
Mass Spectrometry Database Search Algorithms
Membrane Protein Databases
PlantsT Functional genomics of plant transporters
TransportDB (Genomic comparisons of membrane transport systems)
MPDB Membrane Protein Databank
JCIMPT Joint Center for Innovative Membrane Protein Technologies
Statistics
What test do I need? Statistical tests for significance
Statistics at Square One The t tests (from BMJ Publishing Group Ltd)
Structural Biology
PDB (Protein Data Bank)
XtalPred Sever: Prediction of Protein Crystallizability
Chemicals with Pharmaceutical Activity (3D Structure Database)
Chime Resources at UMass
HIC-Up (Hetero-compound Information Centre - Uppsala)
Klotho: Biochemical Compounds Declarative Database
small molecules (Library of 3-D molecular structures)
OPPF-UK high throughput structural biology facilities
DNA Analysis
The Sequence Manipulation Suite (Programs for analyzing and formatting DNA and protein sequences, including determination of similarities and identities from alignments)
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) toolbox bioinformatic tools including sequence format conversion
JCat On-line codon adaptation tool
EMBOSS Transeq (Translation machine)
JaMBW 1.1 Java based Molecular Biologist's Workbench (for reverse, complement, inverse)
LITBIO Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Technologies in Bioinformatics
NEBcutter Restriction mapping
Translate tool (Expasy) (Translate is a tool which allows the translation of a nucleotide (DNA/RNA) sequence to a protein sequence.)
Primer Design
PrimerX (Design of primers for site-directed mutagenesis)
OligoAnalyzer Primer design
Watcut (restriction analysis and silent mutation analysis)
Protein Analysis
Disorders
Secondary Structure Prediction
Membrane Proteins Topology Prediction
Phobius A combined transmembrane topology and signal peptide predictor
TMHMM (v. 2.0) Prediction of transmembrane helices in proteins (CBS; Denmark)
HMMTOP Prediction of transmembrane helices in proteins (Institute of enzymology, Budapest)
The PredictProtein server Prediction of transmembrane helix location and topology (Columbia University)
TMAP Transmembrane detection based on multiple sequence alignment (Karolinska Institut; Sweden)
Homology Modelling
The ConSeq Server surface-mappingof phylogenetic information for the identification of functional regions in proteins
LOOPP Protein Structure Prediction Server
MMM Server Sequence-to-Structure alignment
MolProbity structure validation for proteins and nucleic acids
Sequence Alignment
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