Basic Biochemistry Course (CHE 330)
Spring 2001 Course
This course brought special challenges to the integration of molecular visualization into the biochemistry curriculum. There were 50 students in this course and providing hands-on use of visualization software can be difficult. Therefore, the Protein Exploration Project was initiated!!
PROTEIN EXPLORATION PROJECT
Approach: The
students were divided up into teams of 3-4 people and they utilized the Science
Resource Center to access the online version of Protein
Explorer. The use of Blackboard
software made communication with the student teams quite easy. The instructor
sent a protein assignment (PDB code or name) via E-mail to the groups. The
teams loaded the proteins into Protein Explorer and searched for noncovalent
interactions in the protein systems. The teams replied to the instructor
with their results (type of noncovalent interaction, residues involved, etc.)
through E-mail or the digital drop box (in Blackboard). A sample of the
interactions observed by the students can be accessed below. At this
point, these pages are not chime-based. They show images of noncovalent
interactions discovered by the student teams. The images were generated in
RasMol.
MORE to come......
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This site was created by Ricky
Cox in the Department of Chemistry
Last Modified: June 25, 2001