Structural Bioinformatics

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Description: Structural Bioinformatics is a field of study that uses data on macromolecular structures such as proteins, DNA, RNA, and complexes thereof to make new discoveries about living systems. Examples of areas covered are:
- Structure comparison and classification
- Structure prediction
- Protein-protein interactions
- Protein-ligand interactions
- Electrostatics
- Evolution

Examples of journals which cover the field are:
- Proteins; Structure, Function and Bioinformatics
- BMC Bioinformatics
- Bioinformatics
- Protein Science
- PLoS Computational Biology

The field is also described in Structural Bioinformatics 2003 Ed. P.E.Bourne & H. Weissig from John Wiley and Sons (A second edition from J. Gu and P.E.Bourne (Eds.) will be published early in 2009.
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The proteasome is a multisubunit structure that degrades proteins. Protein degradation is an essential component of regulation because proteins can become misfolded, damaged, or unnecessary. Proteasomes and their homologues vary greatly in complexity: from HslV (heat shock locus v), which is...

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Background The ability to predict antibody binding sites (aka antigenic determinants or B-cell epitopes) for a given protein is a precursor to new vaccine design and diagnostics. Among the various methods of B-cell epitope identification X-ray crystallography is one of...

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Background That the structure determines the function of proteins is a central paradigm in biology. However, protein functions are more directly related to cooperative effects at the residue and multi-residue scales. As such, current representations based on atomic...

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A video accompanying a poster presentation by Erika Gracia from Chula Vista High School. From the RCSB Summer Course in Introductory Bioinformatics as part of the Howard Hughes Scholars Program, UCSD.

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A video accompanying a poster presentation by Julian Sesma and Jesus Sesma from Castle Park High School. From the RCSB Summer Course in Introductory Bioinformatics as part of the Howard Hughes Scholars Program, UCSD.

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This is a UCSD Pharm 201 Final Exam Project see http://www.sdsc.edu/pb/edu/pharm201/

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What is lymphotactin and why do we care? Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics (MD). How can we use MD to study Lymphotactin? Creating an online user-friendly coarse-grained molecular dynamics tool to help the next generation of scientists.

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Protein Disorder and the Evolution of Eukaryotes (take 2)