Advanced seminar on Computational Topics in Protein Structure Analysis
0368-5005-01
Fall and spring semesters 2002/2003
This year the seminar is a student advanced seminar Lead by Prof. Haim Wolfson.
Seminar coordinator - Alexandra Shulman
The seminar deals with the following topics (the lectures powerpoint presentations are available for downloading):
The Capri contest:
Capri II target and algorithm information .
Molecular dynamics, kinetics and minimization
Introduction to Molecular Dynamics and an example of an amyloidogenic sequence simulation .
Introduction to kinetics of chemical and biochemical reactions.
Structure and function prediction
A new method to detect related function among proteins independent of sequence and fold homology.
Pharmacophore in drug design.
Rotamers and rotamer libraries.
Docking
Soft protein-protein docking in internal coordinates, ICM.
Students personal works:
CombDock - Combinatorial assembly of protein building blocks (Yuval Inbar).
List of papers presented in the seminar
More lectures will be added during the semester
Comments and suggestions are welcome at
mol@tau.ac.il