Toolkit
 
Wet Lab
 • Cloning
 • Competent Cell Preparation
 • Protein Expression
 • NMR Sample Preparation
 • Standard Reagent Recipes for the HHMI lab at UMBC
 • Instructions on how to prepare Phage to measure Dipolar Coupling Constants.
 • T7 RNA Polymerase Preparation
    • TALON Metal Affinity Resin User Manual
 • HIV-NC Preparation, supplement
 • MMLV-NC Preparation
 • YOU MUST READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE USING THE FPLC!!!!!
 • AKTA FPLC system manual
    • AKTA FPLC, Making your first run
 • AKTA Prime manual
 • AKTA Prime: Cleaning and Maintenance Protocols
 • Minimal Media Cell Growth
Data Processing
 • Processing for all NMR instruments
 
PYMOL
 • Dr. Summer's notes
 • Pymol Website
Data Collection
 • Pulse Sequences
   • Bruker DMX 600
   • Bruker DRX 800
   • General Electric Omega 600
 • GE Omega 600
 • Bruker DMX 600 / DRX 800
NMRPipe Data Processing
 • Overview: Frank Delaglio's paper from J. Biomol. NMR
 • NIH Documentation: man pages, etc
 • NMRPipe conversion and processing scripts
Data Analysis
 NMRView
   • NMRView version 3: Original documentation that comes with nv3.
   • NMRView version 3: HHMI scripts to do various things
   • NMRView version 2.1: Original documentation that comes with nmrview 2.1. Use of nv3
   • instead of version 2.1 is strongly encouraged
   • NMRView version 4
   • NMRView version 5
   • NMRView Website
   • Locally added nv3 scripts, etc. (/hhmi/nv3/hhmi)
     • How to set up your account to use nv3
     • nv3 startup script (/usr/groupS/bin/nv3)
     • Things to put in startup file
   • How to make plot files
 • GE Omega 600
Structure Calculation and Analysis
 • DYANA (pdf format): calculates structures of proteins/nucleic acids in torsion angle
   space. Here is how to get Netscape to view a pdf file instead of downloading it to the disk.
 • ClustalW Guide : A multiple sequence alignment program for DNA or proteins.
   Can match up to 500 sequences.
 • MidasPlus molecular viewer.
 • Molmol (molecular viewer) command reference and tutorial. Can also be used to
   generate final figures.
 • GRASP view PDB files and create surface maps (e.g. electrostatic surface potential).
 • Rasmol a simple viewer for PDB files
 • Procheck (Ramachandran plots, quality of structures)
 • Doing superpositions and RMSDs using Midas and some of the locally developed    programs
 • Locally developed programs
 • AMBER (Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement)
    • How to Protonate crystal structures in AMBER ?
Figure Generation
 • Molscript publication quality figure generation
 • Raster3D rendering engine for molecular graphics. In our lab, input to raster3d is usually    from the output of a molscript or mscript run
 • Mscript (wrapper around molscript/raster3d programs)
 • Converting to various formats
How-to's
 • Raster3d to Illustrator
 • Stereo Plots with molscript/molmol
 • Getting Netscape to view a pdf file instead of downloading it to the disk
 • Color Figures
 • Black and White Figures
Molecular Cloning
 • Molecular Cloning Website
 • Login Email address - cstove1@hhmi.umbc.edu
 • Login Password - mchhmi
Epson 900n
 • Printing Postscript files on Epson 900n with PostShop software
XWINPLOT
 • Using xwinplot on xwinnmr
Miscellaneous
 • Non-SGI Unix programs (/usr/local/bin, /usr/local/src)
 • Scientific programs (/usr/groupS/bin, /usr/groupS/src)
 • Locally developed programs in alphabetical order (/usr/groupS/bin, /usr/groupS/src)
 • Locally developed programs grouped by topic (/usr/groupS/bin, /usr/groupS/src)
 • How to change window managers on the SGIs. Includes short sections on what a window
  manager is and why you might want to switch.
Phage
 • Instructions on how to prepare Phage to measure Dipolar Coupling Constants.


 
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