Training in Molecular Modeling and Molecular Dynamics
Nov 29-Dec 2, 2016
Where?
National Institutes of Health
9000 Rockville Pike
Building 60, Room 162
Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Background:
Predicting the effect of a mutation on the structure and function of a protein is not just for researchers with super-computer facilities. Thanks to public cloud computing options, anyone with basic molecular biology background can setup and run compute intensive computational modeling and dynamics experiments.
Objectives:
Participants will use popular open source tools and techniques necessary for conducting successful molecular modeling and dynamics experiments... in the cloud.
Hands-on Skills/Tools Taught
- Ab initio protein structure modeling: QUARK / Rosetta
- Remote homology detection: HHpred
- Fragment-based protein structure modeling: Phyre2
- Homology-based protein structure modeling: I-TASSER, MODELLER
- Protein structure quality analysis: PROCHECK, WHAT_IF, Verify3D, PDB-REDO
- Protein structure refinement: ModRefiner, ModLoop, Ramachandran plot
- Macromolecular visualization: VMD, USCF Chimera
- Molecular dynamics: NAMD
Highlights
- Cloud-based, high performance computing platform
- Cloud image freely provided to participants
- Training provided by active NIH researchers
- Cookbook style bound manual for all exercises
- Direct, after training support through exclusive forum membership
- Continuing Educational Credits
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