HELM Resources

Welcome to the HELM Wiki

Home of the HELM notation - representing complex biomolecules

HELM Notation

HELM Notation
Notation overview
Quick links HELM Specification (download) New Opportunities Downloads Examples and Test Data

Monomers

Monomers
Monomer basics
Quick links HELMCoreLibrary on GitHub Downloads Peptide Monomer Guidelines Nucleotide Monomer Guidelines

Hints and tips from the project team

Hints and tips from the project team
Ambiguous bonds Annotations and how to use them Blobs and CHEM{*} Changing the direction of backbone connections Complex monomer connections Monomer numbering and hydrogen bonds Monomers in mixtures or alternative lists Oligo backbones - phosphate and sugar quirks Peptide and Nucleotide Ambiguous Monomers Polymer mixtures and alternatives

Try it out

Try it out
Web editor	Toolkit UI
Monomer services Swagger page	Webservices Swagger page

Documentation and Open Source Code

If you have a suggestion to improve HELM, or the tools or want to ask advice, please contact us on info@openHELM.org

We have worked with at least 83 people across 28 organisations to develop HELM over the last 10 years and are deeply grateful to all of them.

You can read more about our adopters and the ways they are using HELM.