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RefWorks is a web-based tool for importing, organizing and managing your literature citations. It is available to all VCU-affiliated users. You can also use RefWorks to automatically generate bibliographies in numerous formats (ACS, AIP, CBE, APA, MLA, Chicago) in Microsoft Word. Several screencast tutorials are available that demonstrate how to use the various features in RefWorks, such as importing references directly from databases, Write-N-Cite, One Line/Cite View, etc. These videos range from 45 seconds to 7 minutes 37 seconds in length. If you haven't used RefWorks before, there's also a brief screencast describing the registration process.

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The Protein Data Bank is the international, public-domain depository for macromolecular (protein and nucleic acid) 3D structure data.

The narrated PDB video tutorial covers many facets of the website, incuding:
- searching, browsing and query results pages
- structure summary pages
- several alternatives for viewing 3D molecular structures
- downloading structure coordinate files (PDB files)

The PDB also provides several traditional web-page tutorials describing data deposit procedures. More tutorials about this are here.

There is also an RSS feed for the latest released structures

(for latest structures)

Posted by pkirlew at 09:51 PM | Permalink

Cn3D is free molecular viewer software available from NCBI, a division of the National Library of Medicine. This video tutorial (2 minutes, 21 seconds) illustrates how to use Cn3D to customize and annotate the appearance of a known molecular structure. It also briefly discusses basic searching in Entrez Structure, and the PDB (Protein Data Bank), where all protein data is archived.

Cn3D also has many additional capabilities, which are described in traditional web-based tutorials at the NCBI website.

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