Web-Based Scientific Tools

A collection of scientific tools developed or maintained by the Helix Systems staff, including GCG-Lite, EMBOSS, and Molecules R'Us.

Molecular Biology Applications

This site contains a variety of tools and links to resources to facilitate the analysis of DNA and protein sequence/structure data, links to the major sequence and structure databases and links to major software repositories.

SeqWeb

SeqWeb is a web interface to a large subset of the the GCG suite of sequence analysis tools.[Access to SeqWeb is via a Secure Web Server, is restricted to machines within the NIH Network domain, and requires a valid Helix user-name and password.]

Whales

This Web interface provides the facility to define an individual search profile which will be run against the DNA/Protein databases every week. The results of the search will be returned to you by E-mail.

Porpoise

Porpoise is a utility developed by CIT which allows NIH/CDC scientists to define profiles of search terms which will be automatically searched against the weekly update of the ISI Citation Database. The results are returned by E-mail.

Web of Science

Web of Science provides Interactive Citation and Literature Searching of ISI's Science Citation Index Expanded. The database contains data from more than 5,000 scientific journals and covers the period 1980 to the present. The database is updated weekly.

Web Assisted X-Windows Access to Application for PC and Macs

NIH Email Directory

The NIH Directory and E-mail Forwarding Service allows you to lookup e-mail addresses and other information about people who use computers at NIH, and you can easily change the information in your own directory entry.