General

Introduction to protein structure visualization and comparison using Swiss-PdbViewer

Lausanne, 7 November 2013

Course description:

This course is aimed at biologists who wish to get acquainted with protein structure visualization.
After a short introduction on protein structure, the whole course will be centered around the practical utilization of Swiss-PdbViewer.

In particular, you will learn how to
- look at a structure, both globally (as a fold) or in detail (e.g. an active site)
- compare several structures to identify differences
- identify residues participating in protein-protein interactions
- understand the limits of energy minimization
- make a crude model to visualize the result of genetic mutations onto a protein structure.

To maximize the learning experience, the course is structured as a practical demonstration that students can follow repeating the same operation on their own laptop.
At the end of the course, the students will be presented with a few questions that they will have to answer using their newly acquired structural knowledge.

Requirements:

Basic knowledge of biology (DNA, protein sequence) is required to attend the course.
Bring a laptop wifi enabled with a working installation of SwissPdbViewer (http://spdbv.vital-it.ch/).
To verify that the application is compatible with your hardware / graphic card, unzip the package and drag the 1crn.ent file onto the Swiss-PdbViewer application. A structure should appear in the main window.
Known incompatible hardware: Windows 8 running on SurfacePro.

Registration:

Registration is closed.

The registration fees for academics are 50 CHF. The fees include course content material and coffee breaks. Participants from non-academic institutions should contact us.

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