TCB Hands-on Workshop in Urbana

Lectures

  • 11/8: Introduction to Protein Structure and Dynamics 
    • Opening Remarks(pdf)
    • Welcome to the TCB Group (pdf)
    • Molecular Graphics Perspective of Protein Structure and Function(pdf)
    • Molecular Dynamics Methods (pdf)

  • 11/9: Introduction to Bioinformatics 
    • Sequence and Structure Alignment Algorithms (pdf
    • Evolution of Protein Structure (pdf)
    • Bioinformatics of tRNA synthetase (pdf) 

  • 11/10: Statistical Mechanics of Proteins
    • Equilibrium Properties of Proteins, Part1 (pdf), Part2 (pdf
    • Simulated Cooling of Proteins, (pdf)
    • Temperature Echoes (pdf)
    • Using NAMD (pdf)

  • 11/11: Parameters of Classical Force Fields
    • Introduction and Examples
    • Introduction to Classical Force Fields (pdf)
    • Methods of Parametrization (pdf)

  • 11/12: Simulating Membrane Channels
    • Introduction and Examples (pdf)
    • Transport in Aquaporins (pdf)
    • Nanotubes (pdf)