Structural Bioinformatics

Aim:
The aim is to provide students with different aspects of structural bioinformatics ranging from protein modeling and addressing many common computational techniques up to protein homology modeling, ligand-protein molecular docking, and other prediction methods. Different software for protein-ligand docking, de-novo design, and virtual screening will be addressed.
Course contents:
Introduction to Structural Bioinformatics, Modelling of Protein Structures, Modelling of Nucleic Acid Structures, Protein Structure Classification and Databases, Prediction of Protein Structure: Homology Modelling, Prediction of Protein Motion: Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Modelling of Small Molecule Ligands, Aspects in Ligand-Protein Interactions, Molecular Docking and Prediction of Protein Binding Site, Recent Approaches in Structural Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery, Revision.