Amino Acid Information.

General information

• Chemical structures
• Post-translation modifications
• Protecting groups
• Protecting groups (by amino acid)
• Solvent accessibility

Suggested amino acid substitutions

• for solvent exposed residues
• for interior residues
• based on the Dayhoff matrix
• the PAM250 matrix
• scoring matrix comparison

Chemical properties

• Chemical classifications
• Hydrophobicity scales
• Residue volume, area and pKa
• Solubility, density and pI

Structural properties

• Peptide bond geometry
• Chou-Fasman parameters (=secondary structure preferences)
• Bond angles
• Residue hydrogen bonding

Genetic properties

• The genetic code
• Genetic code (non-cannonical)
• Mutation mass shifts
• Nucleotide naming conventions

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