“Survival tips” in Denmark
-The official guide to Life in Denmark
-INTERNATIONAL STAFF UNIT (ISU), via AAU
Lab Safety
Electrochemistry
-Electrochemistry Encyclopedia, ECS
-Electrochemistry Fundamentals, University of Cambridge
-Potential/energy conversion
-Converting potentials to another reference electrode
-Converting between common reference electrodes
-Frequency - Wavelength - Energy Converter
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-Cyclic voltammetry (CV)
-A Practical Beginner’s Guide to Cyclic Voltammetry, ACS
-Cyclic Voltammetry Basic Principles, Theory and Setup; Ossila
-Basic Concepts for CV Analysis, Daniel Graham
-CV simulator
-KinESim: Pre-equilibrium kinetic simulation of electrochemical reactions
-Randles–Sevcik Equation Calculator (for diffusion controlled redox process)
-Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)
-Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy | Nature Reviews Methods Primers
Protein/ enzyme/ biochemistry
-Database
-Protein data bank (PDB) (structure)
-Enzyme database BRENDA (activity)
-PDBe (European version of PDB)
-PDBj (Japanese version of PDB)
-UniProt (freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information)
-CAZy (Carbohydrate-Active enZYmes Database)
-The Biocatalysis Database - BioCatDB
-PDB editing
-PDB Editor (Java based)
-Visualization and analysis of PDB
-UCSF Chimera (free to use)
-Edu-PyMOL (student version)
-Alphafold (protein structure prediction; built in ChimeraX)
-Protein-protein docking
-AutoDock (free to use)
-Online bio-tool
-PDB2PQR tool (for the calculation of surface charge distribution of proteins)
-Protein isoelectric point calculator
-The grand average of hydropathy (GRAVY) value for protein sequences
-I-TASSER (protein structure prediction and structure-based function annotation), Zhang
-PLIP (non-covalent interactions between biological macromolecules and their ligands)
-RNAComposer, Poznan University of Technology
-Calculators & Apps, MERCK
-Acid & Base Normality and Molarity Calculator
-Biocatalysis tools, University of Graz
-Enzyme Activity Assays
-Enzyme kinetics
-Michaelis-Menten Equation - Interactive Graph
-International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC)
-GenBank, NCBI
-DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan)
Data analysis
-QSoas (very good at baseline correction for non-catalytic voltammetry)
-https://www.desmos.com/calculator (see the curves of non-linear equations; a good assistant when performing non-linear fitting with other tools such as Excel and OriginLab)
Materials analysis
-XRD
-Powderplot (Free program for visualising and handling powder diffraction patterns, developed by Kenny Ståhl)
-Fullprof (Rietveld analysis and pattern decomposition of powder diffraction data)
-Match! (with a time-limited demo version free-of-charge)
-Image analysis
-ImageJ (TEM, SEM images; optical images)
-Fiji
-Molecule visualisation
-JMol
-Database
-NIST Standard Reference Database
-Ionic Liquids Database - ILThermo
-ChemTube3D, University of Liverpool
-Crystallography Open Database (COD)
Research
-How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem, Uri Alon
Scientific writing
-Scientific report Word template, Xiao Group
-Scientific manuscript_general template, Xiao Group
-Tips and Tools, Writing the Paper, University of North Carolina
-How to write a good paper, McNeil Group, University of Michigan
-Scientific Writing - The University of Southern Mississippi
Serving the scientific community
To become a peer-reviewer of a scientific journal at the early career stage, the best way is first to be trained as a peer-reviewer
-Focus on Peer Review — free course, Nature Masterclasses
-ACS Reviewer Lab (will get a certification upon completion)
-Certified Peer Reviewer Course, Elsevier Researcher Academy
Editors can be contacted directly by expressing your interest of serving as a peer-reviewer.
Xinxin is now an associate editor of the journal Heliyon, drop a message if you want to review chemistry related manuscripts.
Prestigious electrochemistry related societies
-International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE)
-The Electrochemistry Society (ECS), USA
-The Bioelectrochemical Society (BES)
-American Chemical Society (ACS)
-Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)