DEPARTMENT:

Research Groups: Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Proteolysis, Structural Biology, Toxinology
E-mail addresses (search form) and phone numbers	Lists of publications (since 1995)	Feedback
List of harmful substances used at our department: toxicity, first aid and other information; Institute Waste Chemicals Service (in Slovenian) List of journals from the field of biochemistry and molecular biology at J. Stefan Institute and their locations List of electronic journals (sorted alphabetically) at J. Stefan Institute with links for direct access Departmental events

USEFUL LINKS:

Biology	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Biotechnology
References and Search Engines	Journals on-line	Related organizations
MAIN, the program for macromolecular crystallography	Scientific meetings	SBD, Slovenian Biochemical Society
Events, Weather, Slovenia on WWW (in part in Slovenian language)	For general information on proteases, check PROLYSIS and the MEROPS homepage: classification and links to all known peptidases and inhibitors (edited by Rawlings and Barrett).

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology WWW Virtual Library at golgi.harvard.edu

SwissProt @ExPASy, a protein sequence database,
PIR (protein sequence database @ Univ. of Georgetown),
Protein Data Bank (PDB) search form,
GenBank current release (via NCBI), a DNA/RNA sequence bank.

Visualization of biological molecules - Jena Image Library (Univ. of Jena, Germany),
Mol.Biol. Protocols; there's a special page with more protocol collections and a few test protocols in Slovenian and English,
Laboratory Tools: Rob Beynon Buffer Calculator, Peptide Properties Calculator, Periodic Table of elements, DNA (and protein) unit conversions,
PROLYSIS, the server at the University of Tours /France/ with useful information on proteases and inhibitors,
Protein Degradation Resource - how do cells know which protein to degrade and when?

BIOTECHNOLOGY:

LifeSciencesWorld - the Biotech Search Engine and source of information
Biospace, the Biotech hub page - daily biotech news,
US Patent search 1976 - recent,
Biotechnology patents and new technologies,
BioExchange, the Bio-Pharmaceutical Network: news, jobs, tools, protocols, directories.

JOURNALS ON-LINE:

Acta Crystallographica Sec. D on-line (full access for JSI),
Biochemical Journal on-line (incl. full papers),
Biochemistry on-line (incl. full papers),
Biological Chemistry homepage,
Cell - full text (only available from our department),
Cell death and differentiation (only for our department),
EMBO Journal (abstracts free of charge, on-line subscription required for full text),
FEBS Journal (former Eur. J. Biochem) homepage (full text available for *ijs domain - click onto 'login via IP identification' ),
Immunity tables of contents,
JBC on-line (full access restricted to JSI),
Journal of Immunology full text,
Molecular Biology and Evolution on-line (full access for JSI),
Nature on-line (full access for *ijs domain),
Neuron tables of contents,
Nucleic Acids Research full text,
PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA),
Protein Science,
Science on-line (full access for JSI).

ScienceDirect, all journals published by Elsevier (full access for JSI),
BioMedNet; a full-text journal databank (ceased operating in 2004 but still contains some interesting publications).

REFERENCE & SEARCHES:

NCBI MEDLINE search form,
Institute's Science Information Centre (library), ISI Impact Factors (for local users only) and the Web-of-Science entry point,
COBISS, the bibliographic network of Slovenia, and its automatic personal bibliography service (COBIB),
SCOPUS, the reference search engine (combined bibliographic and Web searches),
Dictionary of cell biology, 2nd edition,
Dictionary of genetic terms at TU Munich.

General dictionaries:

Roget's Thesaurus,

English Acronyms and Abbreviations,

Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary,

Hypertext Webster interface

LookWAYup, a dictionary and basic translation tool (test link).

Internet search engines:

Metacrawler,

Google,

HotBot.

RELATED ORGANIZATIONS:

NIH homepage,
Department of Protein Crystallography at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried (Munich),
National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana,
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana - Chair of Biochemistry,
NIB - National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana,
Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana; Department of Biology - Chair of Biochemistry,
Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana (in Slovenian),
Veterinary Faculty, University of Ljubljana (in Slovenian).

Societies, discussion groups in molecular biology

EMBO, the European Molecular Biology Organisation,
FASEB, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology,
The International Proteolysis Society (IPS),
IST (International Society on Toxinology),
Biosciences in Slovenia,
Terminology Commission (in Slovenian only) of the Slovenian Biochemical Society .

Governmental offices and trade unions:

SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS:

Some more links from the homepage of the Slovenian Biochemical Society .

EVENTS, WEATHER, SLOVENIA ON WWW:

  Ljubljana daily events and Cankarjev dom (Cultural & Congress Centre),
Lectures, seminars, science...,
Institute's newspaper NOVICE,
Weather forecasts of the Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia,
Slovenian information resources: Mat'Kurja and Najdi.si search engines,
Daily news: MOREL, RTV Slovenia, 24ur.com,
An interactive map of Ljubljana,
The latest version of the Slovenian phone book (Telekom basic search).

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FEEDBACK

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