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Wet Lab | Data Processing | PYMOL | Data Collection | NMRPipe Data Processing | Data analysis | Structure Calculation and Analysis | Figure Generation | How-to's | Molecular Cloning | Epson 900n | XWINPLOT | Miscellaneous | Phage

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

AVANTI J-E Centrifuge
Instructions and Manual for using the AVANTI J-E Centrifuge.

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