External Links

ChemBio Probes
Avoid: PAINS and low-quality chemical probes; lousy/missing control experiments & control compounds.
* Baell 2014 / J Med Chem 2017 on PAINS; Schapira 2021 on controls; Derek Lowe (1, 2); Nat Chem Bio 2015
* EU OpenScreen and SGC Chemical Probes: profiling on- and off-targets, providing control compounds
* ChemicalProbes.org curated database (excludes the bad compounds)
* NIH Guide to avoid interferences from compound aggregation, fluorescence / absorbance, or chemical reactivity

ChemBio
* NIH Guide to bio assays for chemical probes, including viability in monolayers / spheroids; in vivo assays; PK/ADME
* Chemical Fluorophores: OTS common spectra; Arizona Fluorophore Spectra; RGB converter
* Protein Fluorophores: the great FP Database (incl lineage), Mol Probes Handbook, UCSF FP Visualiser & List
* TS Group Chemistry Lab Book info pages.
* PDB Protein Data Base; Michelangelo PDB Visualiser; and SGC pre-processed PDB structures.
* Protein resources: ExPASy portal; UniProt sequences & info; SwissModel; String.
* Redox resources at US SfRBM; SfRR Europe.

Chemistry
* Hans Reich's Org Chem Databank of Everything; the FOCUS Org Chem database
* Chemistry By Design, OrgSyn, the Organic Chemistry Portal / Total Syntheses
* It's Not Voodoo chemistry site; Schlenk Line Survival Guide
* Name Reactions; 100 Top Mechanisms; Mayr/Ofial Nuc/Elec database
* In the Pipeline, OrgPrepDaily/Milkshake, Organiclinks, PubChem (in beta)
* Continued Learning: the BACON Bio&Chem website (Neil Garg et al); Christmann links

Biological Databases and Files; Microscopy & Image Processing
* The JCS Cell Science at a Glance page
* Leica LAS X free image evaluation software for Windows; Zeiss has similar
* Antibody Search Engine, Cheap Bio Reagents
* Human Protein Atlas, rapid diagnostics
* Widefield & Confocal Introduction: Combs 2010
* Confocal How-to resources from Olympus / Marder lab / Nikon; acquisition parameters & improve image quality
* CRISPR intro, ebook and guide from Addgene
* PDF compression & manipulation tools

Find your Science
* The wonderful Reference Resolver to jump to any article (extensions)
* DOI and the new, easier, shortDOI : bookmarklets for their one-touch use in the subpage.
* ORCID (a DOI-like index for researchers).
* Reaxys, SciFinder, Google Scholar, Google Patent
* Link Shortener; Big File Transfer; When2Meet meeting scheduler
* Zoom, Meet.LRZ, Google Hangouts, ezTalks and gotoMeeting videoconferencing. LMU licences for Zoom, Meet.LRZ etc
* Researcher App online companion

Tools for UV-Vis, Energy, λ ↔︎ RGB, Graphics, Fonts,...
* Free a|e UV-Vis/Fluo spectral analysis/cleaning software (Win only)
* RGB calculator and Relative Brightness table; Colour-Wavelength Loci for RGB LEDs
* Energy Converter 1; Energy Converter 2, with wavelengths; Rayleigh scatter
* NounProject icons; Servier Medical graphics for bio (animals, cells, organelles etc)

Chemistry Reference/Properties
* Evans' pKa Tables; Bordwell pKa Tables; Bond Dissociation Energies; Mayr Reactivity Database and Posters
* Structure Resolver (ChemDraw/Marvin link scripts); eMolecules search (ChemDraw link script)
* How-To: run reverse-phase purifications and TLC. Still searching for a good Synthetic Equivalents page
* Screening: NIH DTP; Stanford Guide & PAINS list; cApp handler; ChemAxon
* Chemicalize: powerful chemical property calculator (use ChemAxon to register)
* GAMESS, NMRpredict, Lab Insurance

Pharmacological Databases and Files
* CancerRXGene and NCI60 screening / cell line sensitivity data for reference compounds (taxol, colchicine etc)
* IUPHAR Guide to Pharmacology
* DrugBank, ChEMBL, ChemicalProbes
* ADMET Predictor, East China UST Pharmacy Dept
* Top 150 Drugs, 2013-2014 and Njardason Top Pharma Posters