Quick jumps to: CD | Light Scattering | Education | Protein Data | Protein Interaction Facilities | Reference | Societies | Other Biophysical Techniques 
 
(if you find broken links or have suggestion for other sites please contact John Philo)

Analytical Ultracentrifugation: 
bulletAlliance Protein Laboratories - contract lab offering AUC services (experiments and/or data analysis) to industry and academia; web pages have examples of pharmaceutical applications
bullet Beckman Coulter
bulletRASMB homepage - software depot, e-mail list server
bullet U. Texas HSC Center for Analytical Ultracentrifugation of Macromolecular Assemblies - Ultrascan software, analysis examples, tutorials
bulletNational Analytical Ultracentrifugation Facility, University of Connecticut - workshops, NONLIN, HeteroANAL
bulletThe Center to Advance Molecular Interaction Sciences (CAMIS), University of New Hampshire - methods and hardware development for AU and other molecular interaction techniques
bulletNational Center for Molecular Hydrodynamics, University of Nottingham, UK - workshops, MSTAR/PSI software
bulletMacromolecules Group, University of Murcia - HYDRO and SOLPRO hydrodynamic modeling software
bulletUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center AUC Facility - good AUC reading list

Circular Dichroism (CD) Spectroscopy: 

bulletAlliance Protein Laboratories - contract lab offering CD analysis; web site has example applications
bulletCDNN program home page - one of the few Windows-based secondary structure analysis packages; also other links
bulletCONTIN software home page
bulletJasco - CD manufacturer
bullet K2D software home page
bulletUMDNJ CD Facility - good discussion of how CD is used and available software for different applications
bulletAviv Biomedical - CD manufacturer

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Educational Tools: 
bulletPrinciples of Protein Structure from Birkbeck College - This is a real college course taught via the Internet. The course uses a wide range of interactive and multimedia techniques to bring high-quality, low-cost learning to students who wish to understand how the three-dimensional structures of proteins are critical to their function. The course is intended for scientists who need to know more about how and why protein structure is central to modern biology. 

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Light Scattering:

bulletAlliance Protein Labs (SEC-MALS and dynamic light scattering examples)
bullet Brookhaven Instruments - instrument manufacturer
bullet Malvern Instruments - instrument manufacturer
bullet Wyatt Technologies - instrument manufacturer; good SEC-MALS, DLS, and CG-MALS bibliographies; many application notes but few details in them

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Other Biophysical Techniques: 
bullet BIAcore biosensor home page - GE
bullet calorimetry - Microcal (GE)
bullet Internet resources for infrared spectroscopy

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Professional Societies: 
bullet FASEB (includes links to pages for all member societies )
bullet Protein Society
bullet ASBMB
bullet Biophysical Society
bullet AAAS
bulletABRF

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Protein & Peptide Chemistry Data and Other Useful Information: 
bullet amino acid properties - Free University of Berlin
bulletamino acid properties - Michigan State University
bulletamino acid properties - Rockefeller (PROWL) 
bulletamino acid properties - Weizmann Institute - includes RASMOL 3-D images
bullet Antibody Resource Page - links to databases, antibody images, information about ELISAs and antibody suppliers, etc. (by Keven Shreder, UCSD)
bulletbuffer design page - a great web application that builds recipes for making solutions based on your inputs for buffer species, and the desired pH, ionic strength, and temperature (based on the book by Rob Beynon) highly recommended! [note that other web implementations of the Rob Beynon calculator do not seem to work with current versions of Internet Explorer]
bullet Cytokines Online Pathfinder Encyclopedia (COPE) - nomenclature and the many often-used synonyms for cytokine names (by Horst Ibelgaufts, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität - München)
bullet detergent properties - molecular weights and micelle sizes for over 80 detergents (by Shaun D. Black, U. Texas Health Center at Tyler)
bulletGlycoscience Network page - internet forum and links regarding carbohydrates and carbohydrate analysis
bullet Immunoglobulin Structure home page - a nice summary of Ig structure/function and differences among isotypes and allotypes, with image files, animations, and PDB files, plus many links (by Mike Clark at Cambridge)
bulletJava-based Molecular Biology Workbench - tools for sequence analysis (both protein and DNA), calculation of protein titration curves, etc.
bulletPeptides Guide - info about types, uses and various classes of peptides, basics of peptide synthesis, peptide MW calculator

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Protein Interaction Facility websites: 
bulletBiomolecular Interaction Technologies Center (BITC), University of New Hampshire --- fosters development of interactions technologies through development of new instruments, accessories (e.g. centrifuge centerpieces), and software, as well as through workshops
bulletMacromolecular Interactions Facility, Univ. of North Carolina - background on AU, SPR, CD, fluorescence
bulletProtein Interaction Facility, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Univ. of Utah - basics of SPR (BIAcore), AU, and titration calorimetry; distribution point for CLAMP software package for SPR analysis

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Reference Tools: 
bullet on-line search of multiple specialized dictionaries