This note covers the
following topics: Structural Biology and Amino acids, History of Macromolecular Crystallography, Amino acid Chirality,
Non-covalent interactions and Ramachandran Map, Secondary structures;
Introduction to Protein , Alpha-domain proteins I: Coiled coils and four-helix
bundle, ROP protein design, Alpha-domain proteins II: Large alpha-helical domain
and globin fold, Alpha or Beta-domain proteins, Beta-domain proteins.
This note explores the
concepts and algorithms that enable computational modeling of biological
molecules, in both theory and practice. Topics covered includes: The basics of
protein structure, Rosetta and structural modeling, Optimization techniques,
Analysis of protein structures and assessment of model quality, Full atom
refinement and side chain modeling, Hands-on: Side chain modeling, Homology
modelin, Protein-protein docking.
These are notes about
using mathematics to study the molecular structure of molecules, especially long
organic molecules like DNA and proteins. Topics covered includes: Molecular
Genetics: DNA, Proteins, Frames and moving frames, Orthogonal transformations
and Rotations, Torsion angles and pdb files, X-ray Crystallography, Lattices,
and Fourier Series, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and distance geometry, Protein
Folding.