This Web Gateway is an informal resource provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Protein and Peptide Science Special Interest Group (RSC PPSG). The RSC PPSG is part of the RSC Chemical Biology Forum. Originally founded in 1973 as the Chemical Society Protein Subject Group, it became the Royal Society of Chemistry Protein Subject Group in 1980. The Group has a strong historic basis in both peptide and protein science. The Group was, until recently, a joint group of the Biochemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The interests of the Group have enlarged in recent years to cover peptide and protein structure determination, protein structure prediction, molecular modelling and dynamics, protein separation and characterisation, protein biosynthesis, protein expression, modification and targeting, combinatorial synthesis, protein design and engineering, drug-protein and protein-protein interactions and protein structure-function. The Group is committed to paving the way forward into functional genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics.

The Group has formal links with the European Peptide Society, the Australian Peptide Society and some of the Theme panels of the Biochemical Society. It is actively engaged in the organisation of meetings to promote Peptide and Protein Science, and in representing members' interests in the wider scientific community, in government, in the Research Councils, and at grant giving bodies, such as the Wellcome Trust. The Group attempts to influence positively the way in which science is taught in schools, colleges and universities. The Group's members may attend meetings sponsored by the RSC at reduced rates, receive Chemistry World and make use of the Library Facilities at Burlington House.

For active links concerning the above and more details of British Protein and Peptide Science matters, please click on the Official Web Pages of the Royal Society of Chemistry PPS Special Interest Group and the Biochemical Society PPS IT-supported Group (menu on left of this page).