Resources

Reference Tools

PubMed – search engine for biomedical literature

Google Scholar – a more general search engine for scientific papers and patents (if you can’t find it using PubMed, try here!)

 

Protein tools

ExPASy ProtParam tool – computes various chemical and physical parameters for a given protein sequence, including molecular weight and theoretical pI

MUSCLE multiple sequence alignment tool – creates an alignment for up to 500 sequences at a time

beta-lactamase database – catalog of variants found in clinical settings