451
Topics
Problem Sets
Seminar
08-25
Course Introduction
Course Syllabus
Office Hours
Introductory Slides
08-27
Unix, not Eunuchs
Unix Slides
Ritchie DM and Thompson K (1974) The UNIX Time-Sharing System
Comm ACM 17
365-75
09-01
Shell Games
Shell Games Slides
History @ 451
09-03
Shell Games
(cont'd)
Bill of Rights
Streams Demonstration
History @ 451
09-08
Computational Experimentation
Peng RD (2011) Reproducible Research in Computational Science
Science 334
1226-7
Sandve GK, Nekrutenko A, Taylor J and Hovig E (2013) Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research
PLOS Computational Biology 9
e1003285
Baggerly KA and Coombes KR (2009) Deriving chemosensitivity from cell lines: Forensic bioinformatics and reproducible research in high-throughput biology
The Annals of Applied Statistics 3
1309-34
Bioinformatics
, September, 2026
History @ 451
09-10
Protein Data Bank
Worldwide Protein Data Bank
Bernstein FC, Koetzle TF, Williams GJB, Meyer EF, Brice MD, Rodgers JR, Kennard O, Shimanouchi T and Tasum M (1977) The Protein Data Bank: A Computer-Based Archival File for Macromolecular Structures
Eur J Biochem 80
319-24
Berman HM (2007) The Protein Data Bank: a historical perspective
Acta Crystallographica Section A 64
88-95
RCSB PDB
PDBselect
Hobohm U, Scharf M, Schneider R and Sander C (1992) Selection of representative protein data sets
Prot Sci 1
409-17
Dunbrack Lab—PISCES
History @ 451
09-15
Protein Folds
Hobohm U, Scharf M, Schneider R and Sander C (1992) Selection of representative protein data sets
Prot Sci 1
409-17
PDBselect
Dunbrack Lab—PISCES
Conte LL, Ailey B, Hubbard TJP, Brenner SE, Murzin AG and Chothia C (2000) SCOP: a Structural Classification of Proteins database
Nuc Acid Res 28
257-9
Structural Classification of Proteins
Dawson NL, Lewis TE, Das S, Lees JG, Lee D, Ashford P, Orengo CA and Sillitoe I (2017) CATH: an expanded resource to predict protein function through structure and sequence
Nuc Acids Res 45
D289-95
Class, Architecture, Topology and Homologous Superfamily
History @ 451
09-17
Presentation Graphics
Hobohm U, Scharf M, Schneider R and Sander C (1992) Selection of representative protein data sets
Prot Sci 1
409-17
PDBselect
Dunbrack Lab—PISCES
Conte LL, Ailey B, Hubbard TJP, Brenner SE, Murzin AG and Chothia C (2000) SCOP: a Structural Classification of Proteins database
Nuc Acid Res 28
257-9
Structural Classification of Proteins
Dawson NL, Lewis TE, Das S, Lees JG, Lee D, Ashford P, Orengo CA and Sillitoe I (2017) CATH: an expanded resource to predict protein function through structure and sequence
Nuc Acids Res 45
D289-95
Class, Architecture, Topology and Homologous Superfamily
Presentation Graphics Slides
Kraulis PJ (1991) MOLSCRIPT: a program to produce both detailed and schematic plots of protein structures
J Appl Cryst 24
946-50
MolScript
MolScript Visual Tutorial
Raster 3D
History @ 451
09-22
Presentation Graphics
(cont'd)
Presentation Graphics Slides
Kraulis PJ (1991) MOLSCRIPT: a program to produce both detailed and schematic plots of protein structures
J Appl Cryst 24
946-50
MolScript
MolScript Visual Tutorial
Raster 3D
History @ 451
09-24
Presentation Graphics
(cont'd)
Presentation Graphics Slides
Kraulis PJ (1991) MOLSCRIPT: a program to produce both detailed and schematic plots of protein structures
J Appl Cryst 24
946-50
MolScript
MolScript Visual Tutorial
Raster 3D
History @ 451
09-29
Solvent Accessibility
Picknett T and Davis K (1999) The 100 most-cited articles from JMB
J Mol Biol 293
173-6
Lee B and Richards FM (1971) The interpretation of protein structures: estimation of static accessibility
J Mol Biol 55
379-400
Wikipedia—Accessible Surface Area
naccess
History @ 451
10-01
Hydrogen Bonding
Pauling L (1931) The nature of the chemical bond. Application of results obtained from the quantum mechanics and from a theory of paramagnetic susceptibility to the structure of molecules
JACS 53
1367-1400
Shirley BA, Stannsens P, Hahn U and Pace CN (1992) Contribution of hydrogen bonding to the conformational stability of ribonuclease T1
Biochemistry 31
725-32
Presta LG and Rose GD (1988) Helix Signals in Proteins
Science 240
1632-41
Rose GD (2021) Protein folding - seeing is deceiving
Protein Science 30
1606–1616
HBPLUS v.3.06
History @ 451
10-06
Midterm Exam
Midterm Exam
10-08
Secondary Structure
Kabsch W and Sander C (1983) Dictionary of protein secondary structure: pattern recognition of hydrogen-bonded and geometrical features
Biopolymers 22
2577-2637
Frischman D and Argos P (1995) Knowledge-based protein secondary structure assignment
Proteins 23
566-79
Scholtz JM, York EJ, Stewart JM and Baldwin RL (1991) A neutral, water-soluble α–helical peptide: the effect of ionic strength on the helix-coil equilibrium
JACS 113
5102-4
Pace CN and Scholtz JM (1998) A helix propensity scale based on experimental studies of peptides and proteins
Biophys J 75
422-7
History @ 451
10-13
Sequence Alignment (Global)
Scholtz JM, York EJ, Stewart JM and Baldwin RL (1991) A neutral, water-soluble α–helical peptide: the effect of ionic strength on the helix-coil equilibrium
JACS 113
5102-4
Pace CN and Scholtz JM (1998) A helix propensity scale based on experimental studies of peptides and proteins
Biophys J 75
422-7
Slides
Needleman SB and Wunsch CD (1970) A general method applicable to the search for similarities in the amino acid sequence of two proteins
JMB 48
443-53
Thompson JD, Higgins DG and Gibson TJ (1994) CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
Nucleic Acids Res 22
4673-80
HPr sequences for multiple alignment
History @ 451
10-15
No Class—Fall Recess
10-20
Secondary Structure Prediction
Chou PY and Fasman JD (1974) Prediction of protein conformation
Biochemistry 13
222-45
Frishman D and Argos P (1997) Seventy-five percent accuracy in protein secondary structure prediction
Proteins 27
329-35
PSI-BLAST Tutorial
Jones DT (1999) Protein secondary structure prediction based on position-specific scoring matrices
J Mol Biol 292
195-202
History @ 451
10-22
Tertiary Structure Prediction
10-27
Tertiary Structure Prediction
(cont'd)
10-29
Molecular Dynamics
11-03
Docking
11-05
Sequence Alignment (Local)
11-10
Sequence Alignment (Local)
(cont'd)
11-12
Phylogeny
11-17
High–Throughput Sequencing
11-19
Alignment to a Reference Sequence
11-24
No Class—Thanksgiving Recess
11-26
No Class—Thanksgiving Recess
12-01
Variant Calling
12-03
Various and Sundry Tools
12-08
Using the Literature
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