Dr Dragoljub Pokrajac-Pokie
Assistant professor

 

 

35-301 Bioinformatics

Spring 2007 Course

syllabus (.doc)

Tue, Th 3:00-4:15PM  SC 301

IMPORTANT NOTES:     

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Textbook: 

  

Bioinformatics: Bioinformatics in the post-genomic Era, Jeff Augen, Addison-Wesley 2005, ISBN 0-321-17386-4

 
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Books websites:

 

            TBA

 

bulletOffice hours:  

            TBA

bulletAssignments
bulletTests
bulletLABS

 

bulletClass Material

          RasMol tutorial modified by me

          Basic Probabilities, Part I.ppt

          Databases for Bioinformatics 

          SwissProt data format

          Critical values for Gaussian and t distribution for Bioinformatics class.doc

          Classification techniques, part II.ppt

bulletImportant Links

           www.proteinexplorer.org   3D visualization of proteins

           http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/   Protein Data Bank (PDB) of 3D protein structures

           http://www.ebi.ac.uk/swissprot/access.html SwissProt at EBI

            http://www.chemguide.co.uk/atoms/bondingmenu.html#top About chemical     bonds (for people rusty in chemistry)

            http://ntri.tamuk.edu/cell/chapter3/amino-acids.html#bond Beginner guide to amino acids

            http://www.johnkyrk.com/index.html Cell biology anymations

            http://www.chemicalelements.com/ Chemical Elements Information

            http://www.webelements.comChemical Elements Information

bulletSoftware
 

            PROTEIN EXPLORER

            ***Protein Explorer can be accessed on-line at:

                www.proteinexplorer.org

            ***If you want to download Protein Explorer and work off-line, go to:

                 http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/regisfrm/

                  There, you should register and download Windows (or Macintosh) version

            RASMOL

            ***Rasmol site:

                 http://www.openrasmol.org/

             ***You can download rasmol from my site:

                  rasmol executable file and help file that should be installed on the same folder of your computer.

                 Have in mind that original authors  retain their copyright and that there is no any guarantee to any portion of software (see  Copyright.htm for more details)

 

           CHIME

           *** To properly use Rasmol and/or Protein Explorer, you will need Chime        plug-in (you should register before downloading it):         

            http://www.mdl.com/chime/register.html