The following people have contributed information, comments, software etc. which helped shape this site:

• Axel Brünger and Paul Adams at Yale University (home of X-PLOR and CNS)

• Dale Tronrud at the University of Oregon (home of TNT)

• Roman Laskowski at UCL (home of LIGPLOT)

• Nancy Manning and Joel Sussman at the PDB (while it was still at Brookhaven National Laboratory)

• Tom Taylor, Jinyu Zou, Mark Harris, and Alwyn Jones at Uppsala University

• Phil Evans at MRC-LMB Cambridge

• The people who provide the off-site services and servers that are linked to from HIC-Up (PDBsum, PRODRG, ReliBase, NIST Chemistry Webbook, Hetero Components Database, EBI-MSD Ligand Chemistry, OCA, MMDB, RCSB, PDBREPORT, ChemDB, OCA, JenaLib, KEGG, etc.); see the list of links in the main HIC-Up menu

• Sethuraman Baranidharan who created JPEG images for the 3416 compounds in release 5.3, which are now used in the headers of the corresponding compound pages

• Dimitris Dimitropoulos and Kim Henrick of the MSD group at EBI for providing the CORINA-generated ideal coordinate sets for thousands of compounds (which are used as of release 9.1 to derive the dictionaries etc.)

• And of course all the crystallographers and NMR spectroscopists who deposit their precious structures in the PDB !

If you use information from this site in your publications, you may want to cite: Kleywegt, G.J. and Jones, T.A. (1998). Databases in protein crystallography. Acta Cryst D54, 1119-1131 (CCP4 Proceedings). (PDF) You may also be interested in: Kleywegt, G.J., Henrick, K., Dodson, E.J., & van Aalten, D.M.F. (2003). Pound-wise but penny-foolish - How well do micromolecules fare in macromolecular refinement ? Structure, 11, 1051-1059. (PDF)