Websites of Interest

Links provided below are provided as a convenience for Users; some contain information related to structural biology, others are more physics and beamline related.

• Frequently Used:
  • AlphaFold Protein Structure Database
  • EXAFS Foil Reference Spectra (pdf)
  • IUCr - International Tables (International Union of Crystallography)
  • PDB - Protein Data Bank (RCSB)
  • wwPDB (World Wide PDB)
  • X-ray Absorption Edges (University of Washington)
  • X-ray Data Booklet (Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory)
• Useful Starting Points:
  • BioSync (Structural Biologist's Guide to Data Collection Facilities)
  • BMCD (Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database)
  • CCP4 (Collaborative Computational Project 4; Protein Crystallography)
  • CSD (Cambridge Structural Database)
  • Crystallographic Databases and Related Resources (IUCr)
  • EMDataBank (3D Electron Microscopy Data Bank)
  • ExPASy (Bioinformatics Resource Portal)
  • ICDD (International Center for Diffraction Data)
  • ICSD (Inorganic Crystal Structure Database)
  • IUCr (International Union of Crystallography)
  • NAKB (Nucleic Acid Knowledgebase)
• Crystallographic Associations:
  • ACA (American Crystallographic Association; Structural Science Society)
  • IUCr (International Union of Crystallography)
  • ...and many more... (IUCr listing of National and Regional Societies)
• Synchrotron Facilities:
  • USA
    • CHESS (Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source; Ithaca, New York)
    • NSLS II (National Synchrotron Light Source II; Brookhaven, New York)
    • SSRL (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource; Stanford, California)
  • Everywhere (!)
    • BioSync
• Learning Crystallography:
  • IUCr Websites, Resources (IUCr)
  • MSc in Structural Molecular Biology (Birkbeck College, UK)
  • PDB-101 (RCSB PDB)
  • PDB Learn (RCSB PDB)
• Common Crystallographic Software Packages:
  • IUCr Crystallographic Software - list
  • ARP/wARP
  • BUSTER
  • CCP4 (Collaborative Computational Project 4; Protein Crystallography)
  • DIALS
  • EXPECTED CRYSTAL LIFETIME CALCULATOR
  • HKL3000/HKL2000/DENZO-SCALEPACK
  • MATTHEWS COEFFICIENT (RUPPWEB)
  • MOSFLM/iMOSFLM
  • PHENIX
  • RADDOSE-3D (GitHub)
  • REQUIRED CRYSTAL NUMBER OR SIZE CALCULATOR
  • SGXPRO: Download sgxpro.tar link to desired location; from there type (omit quotation marks): "tar xvf sgxpro.tar; ./sgxpro_install"
  • SELF_ROTATION FUNCTION SERVER (UCLA)
  • SHARP/AUTOSHARP
  • SHELX (Homepage)
  • TWINNING SERVER (UCLA MBI)
  • XDSGUI