Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

J.Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
phone: +386 1 477 3900,fax: +386 1 257 3594



DEPARTMENT:


 

Department's profile (1994) E-mail addresses (search form), phone numbers and homepages Lists of publications (since1995) Feedback
List of harmful substances used at our department, toxicity, first aid and other information
List of journals from the field of biochemistry and molecular biology at J. Stefan Institute and their locations
List of electronic journals (sorted by subject) at J. Stefan Institute with links for direct access

Departmental events:

Departmental lecture: Wednesday, March 7 at 13:00 in the Institute lecture hall: Prof. Eiji Matsuura (Department of Cell Chemistry, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Okayama University Medical School, Japan): Beta2-glycoprotein I and autoimmune-mediated atherothrombosis.

Next Thursday seminar: March 8 at  14:30 in the Biochemistry seminar room: Roger Pain: Recombinant lamb prochymosin: from protein engineering  to cheese making (research presentation) .   Check the list of forthcoming presentations.

new Pictures from the Crystallography wet lab opening are up! (only for local users)
 
 

USEFUL LINKS:


 
Biology Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biotechnology
Medicine, Biopharmaceutics and Diagnostics Journals on-line Education, References and Search Engines
MAIN, the program for macromolecular
crystallography
Related organizations SBD, Slovenian Biochemical Society
Scientific meetings Relevant newsgroups 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 (edited by Rawlings and Barrett). 

BIOLOGY:

WWW sites for Biologists,
Biology site at galaxy,
American Type Culture Collection,
E.coli Genetic Stock Center at Yale,
Philogeny and Biodiversity, The Tree of Life project,
NCBI's taxonomy browser,
Plant Disease Handbook,
Botanica Slovenica.


BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

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

SwissProt @ExPASy, a protein sequence databank,
PIR (protein sequence databank @ Univ. of Georgetown),
Protein Data Bank (PDB) search form,
GenBank current release (via NCBI), a DNA/RNA sequence bank,
Vectors, a list of DNA sequences of cloning & expression vectors.
MIPS databases, including ATLAS, the protein/DNA sequence browser, PROTFAM, a protein classification tool, and others,
ENTREZ, a reference and sequence browser,
Pedro's Research Tools, a range of programs for protein and DNA analyses and a local copy thereof - all quite outdated,
ABIM On-line analysis tools at the Universite Aix-Marseille I,
Virtual Genome Center, a selection of tools for molecular biologists,
BCM Search Launcher at the Baylor College of Medicine (Houston,  Texas)  / alternative  link,
  CMS Molecular Biology Resource (and a mirror at the University of Nebraska) - a very useful set of links,
List of links for mol. biologists (compiled by Amos Bairoch @ExPASy),
EC enzyme database with a searchable index of enzymes and the updated EC list of peptidases,
GenQuest, protein and DNA sequence comparisons (FASTA, BLAST et al.), an improved FASTA,and  CLUSTALW,
Genestream tools (FAST, BLAST, ALIGN and similar),
BLAST sequence comparisons at NCBI,
Webcutter: restriction endonuclease analysis of your DNA - and a (faster) mirror at the Univ. of Goteborg  (Sweden),

Biomolecular Engineering and Structural Biology - European Resources
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,
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 todegrade and when?


BIOTECHNOLOGY:

About biotech,
Biospace, the Biotech hub page - daily biotech news,
US Patent search 1976 - recent,
Biotechnology patents and new technologies,
Tools and Lab Consumer from The Scientist,
BioExchange, the Bio-Pharmaceutical Network: news, jobs, tools, protocols, directories.


MEDICINE, BIOPHARMACEUTICS and DIAGNOSTICS:

Pharmaceutical info,
Cancer diagnosis and prognosis,
OncoLink at Univ. of Pennsylvania,
German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg,
Clinical Resources,
Medicine OnLine, cancer related information and education,
Newspage-Healthcare Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology News,
National Osteoporosis Foundation (USA) - all you ever wanted to know about osteoporosis,
Cancer News on the Net,
Scopoli, a programme for recognition of medicinal plants, their active substances and effects (in Slovenian only).


JOURNALS ON-LINE:

Acta Crystallographica Sec. D on-line (full access for JSI)
Biochemical Journal on-line (incl. full papers),
Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. homepage,
Biochemistry on-line (incl. full papers),
Biological Chemistry  homepage,
Cell - full text (only available from our department),
EMBO Journal (abstracts free of charge, on-line subscription required for full text),
European Journal of Biochemistry homepage (full text available for *ijs domain)
FEBS Lett. and other journals by Elsevier,
Immunity tables of contents,
Gene on-line (abstracts only),
JBC on-line (full access restricted to JSI),
Journal of Immunology tables of contents,
Molecular Biology and Evolution on-line (full access for JSI),
Nature contents and summaries (free registration required),
Neuron tables of contents,
Nucleic Acids Research contents and abstracts,
PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA),
Protein Science contents and news,
Science on-line (tables of contents),
ScienceDirect, all journals published by Elsevier (full access for JSI)
Elsevier Technical Tips On-Line (now available via BioMedNet),

BioMedNet; a full text journal databank (free registration required), its Medline search form and the HMS Beagle magazine,
IDEAL, a journal databank -  now fully accessible for JSI.


EDUCATION and REFERENCE SEARCHES:

Chemical education server,
BioNet Teaching,
NetBiochem, Biochemical education tools,
HealthGate Medline reference searches / alternative link (NCBI's Medline) and the new search form (recommended),
Institute's Science Information Centre ( library ) and Journal citation reports (for local users only),
COBISS, the bibliographic network of Slovenia, and its E-mail automatic personal bibliography service (COBIB),
Dictionary of cell biology, 2nd edition,
Dictionary of genetic terms at TU Muenchen (slow link).

General dictionaries:
Roget's Thesaurus,
English Acronyms and Abbreviations,
Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary,

Hypertext Webster interface.
  Internet search engines:
AltaVista,
Metacrawler,
Google,
HotBot,
DejaNews (search in discussion groups).

RELATEDORGANIZATIONS:

NIH homepage,
Department of Protein Crystallography at the Max-Planck Instituteof 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, discussiongroups 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:

Slovenian Ministryof Science and Technology
SVIZ Trade Union (in Slovenian only)


SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS:

   The 7th Brdo Symposium on Proteolysis and Biological Control, June 16 - 20, 2001, Brdo, Slovenia .
4th Meeting of the Slovenian Biochemical Society with internationalparticipation, Kranjska Gora, September 13-15, 2001.
The full list of proteases & inhibitors conferences is available from the International Proteolysis Society homepage.
Review of the International Conference on Cysteine Proteinases and their Inhibitors: The new Millenium, September 9-13, 2000, Portoroz, Slovenia

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


EVENTS,WEATHER, SLOVENIA ON WWW:

TV,cinema, timetables... and Cankarjev dom (Cultural & Congress Centre),
Lectures, seminars, science... ,
Institute's newspaper NOVICE,
Calculate the working hours at JSI,
Institute's canteen: current menus,
Weather forecasts (also some basic English pages) by Hidrometeoroloski zavod RS,
Slovenian information resources with the New this month section,
Current news (MOREL) and TV Slovenia Teletext,
An interactive map of Ljubljana and Slovenia,
The latest version of the Slovenian phone book and of the E-mail directory of Slovenia (by Telekom).


TUESDAY SEMINARS TIMETABLE

March 8, Roger Pain: Recombinant lamb prochymosin: from protein engineering  to cheese making (research presentation)
March 15, Gabriela Ivanovski:   Bacterial cell membrane hydrolysis by secreted phospholipases A(2): a major physiological role of human group IIa sPLA(2) involving both bacterial cell wall penetration and interfacial catalysis. [Buckland, AG et al., Biochim Biophys Acta (2000), 1484, 195-206]- journal club
March 22, J. Stefan Days
March 29, Vera Zupunski: Complete reptilian Bov-B LINE: a conserved structure of the RTE clade (research presentation)
April 5, Mirjana Grujic: Novel mechanisms of drug resistance inleukemia [D.D. Ross, Leukemia (2000), 14, 467-473,www.nature.com/leu] - journal club


Last updated March 5, 2001.


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