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NCBI: Biomedical and genomic information
NCBI BLASTp: Protein sequence alignment
PSI-PRED: Secondary structure prediction
ClustalOmega: Sequence alignment
PFAM Database: Collection of protein families
FATCAT: Flexible structure alignment
POSA: Flexible multiple structure alignment

Protein Data Bank: Collection of protein structural models
ModWeb: Protein structure modeling
Phyre2: Protein homology modeling
I-TASSER: Protein structure and function predictions
QwikMD: Molecular dynamics simulation tool for novices
DALI: Protein structure comparison
PyMol: Molecular visualization system (recommended for beginners)
VMD: Molecular visualization program
Chimera: Interactive visualization and analysis tool

COOT User Reference Guide
PyMol Intermediate User Reference Guide

NCBI PubMed
PaperBLAST: Locate papers about a specific protein and homologs

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