Starting into Computational Structural Biology

Objectives

This section of my website is designed to provide an overview of the tools, methods, and data that is available in the field of computational structural biology. While applicable to all researchers in this field, these sections focus on introducing structural biology concepts and research areas to computer scientists. This information is organized as follows:

Visualization

In our lab, proteins are visualized using PyMol. Both an academic/non-profit version (discounted) and a free student version are avilable. For work in this lab, we recommend you download the free student version. Note: that is you are using a VM, PyMol utilizes OpenGL for rendering, and as a result, does not peform well in these environments. The main software packages that will be installed include: