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Biology-related tools

PubMed

RCSB Protein Data Bank

• International database of 3D biological macromolecules

ExPASy Proteomics server

• links to many pages to calculate parameters of your favorite proteins

Colibri

• E. coli genome site; get sequences, see the position of your gene in the chromosome, and other fun stuff

Biopolymer calculator

• calculate extinction coefficients, Tm's, and base composition for your DNA or RNA; calculate amino acid composition and extinction coefficient for your protein

Novagen pET vector table

• table with links to properties/sequences of pET vectors
• note: slow to load

Protein Prospector

• UCSF mass spec site to search fragments, etc. to identify your protein

mFold by Michael Zuker.

• This is the main page with links to sites for predicting RNA and DNA folds, calculating Tm's and free energies.

More good stuff on the Synthetic Biology:Tools page.

Also see Science Web Resources.

Companies

IDT

Sigma

Pierce

New England Biolabs

Amersham

MIT Links

MIT website

MIT Biology department website

MIT webmail

• Login required

MIT ECAT ordering

• Certificate required
• can also get to Sciquest from here and order from GE Healthcare (formerly Amersham), PerkinElmer, Qiagen, Roche Applied Science, USA Scientific, Newark InOne, Sigma-Aldrich, Invitrogen (coming soon) using your MIT account number instead of a credit card.
• For instructions on how to use ECAT, see the FAQs page.

MIT SAPweb

• Purchase orders, requisitions, etc. Certificate required.

Biopolymers facility

• DNA sequencing, mass spectrometry, protein sequencing, peptide synthesis.