Structural Bioinformatics

Tentative Syllabus


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Subject (Click for a short summary)
Topic 1 Introduction to Molecular Biology - DNA, RNA, Proteins
Topic 2 Protein Sequence Comparison - Motivation, Algorithms and Software
Topic 3 Protein Multiple Sequence Alignment, Automatic Structural Classification of Proteins
Topic 4 Protein Structural Comparison - Motivation, Algorithms.
Geometric Hashing, rigid and flexible matching.
Topic 5 Biomolecular Recognition - Molecular surface representation and interest points
Topic 6 Rigid and Flexible Docking Methods
Topic 7 Drug Design and Docking of a drug onto a receptor
Topic 8 Protein Folding
Topic 9 Methods of resolving protein 3D structures