Shedding Light
I spent several hours today just trying to get my computational structural biology assignment sorted out. It was fun though, playing around on html and various molecular visualisation softwares about. You might want to have a go at PyMol, or you can download here if that link does work (I have problems accessing it). You can easily find tools to help you out at PyMolWiki.
You can download various protein structures at the Protein Data Bank. There are visualisation tools at the site as well, but I quite like PyMol, I think it's rather user friendly. These things are great to help you visualise a protein, whose structure has a huge impact on its function.
There are many other tools out there, including Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD), RasMol, Swiss PDB, MolMol and so on. I'm sure there are tons more, but these are what were mentioned in my lecture.
Oh dear, enough biology, I reckon. Otherwise I'm really going further into the "dark side". I must admit though, biophysics is relatively new and unexplored, so it does appeal lots to physicists looking for new challenges. Of course, it helps that the effects of your research probably have more obvious and tangible benefits to mankind.
Whoah, now it all sounds noble. Oh well!
You can download various protein structures at the Protein Data Bank. There are visualisation tools at the site as well, but I quite like PyMol, I think it's rather user friendly. These things are great to help you visualise a protein, whose structure has a huge impact on its function.
There are many other tools out there, including Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD), RasMol, Swiss PDB, MolMol and so on. I'm sure there are tons more, but these are what were mentioned in my lecture.
Oh dear, enough biology, I reckon. Otherwise I'm really going further into the "dark side". I must admit though, biophysics is relatively new and unexplored, so it does appeal lots to physicists looking for new challenges. Of course, it helps that the effects of your research probably have more obvious and tangible benefits to mankind.
Whoah, now it all sounds noble. Oh well!
posted by Female Fizzicist at 8:04 PM
9 Comments:
miss ya heaps aunty!!! *hugs!!!
heh sry to bother u,i read the a*star yr book,can i ask u a question?is being a scientist difficult?can u breifly tell me the process,plssssssssplssssssssplssssssss!!!
Hey, ha ha. That's a really tough question to answer. I might have to write a full post on it! Give me a while to think about it, and I'll try to give a good answer. Meanwhile, anyone out there with advice?
YAY!thank you.
everyone *applause*
hmm,so erm how do u find science as ur career!?
thank you,hope will give me tad answer haha.:))
haha sry to comment so much but is physics really tad nice?all bout maths.haha erm iam another person tad is very interested in science,IAM NOT A SPAMMER haha.tks:)
lol aunty you got a groupie... either that or a stalker.. hurmz... oh wells.. neways miss you heaps.. i think janes hitting on cherms in your absence.. shes a bit freaked out but i think she'll be fine.. shes used to getting it for me.. lol neways *hugs
Ha ha, Ivan, you're hilarious. :P Thanks for dropping by though!
what??! Nooooo..!! where got?? Auntie u cannot believe ivan ok..not true, not true. Anyway hi! I think this is my first time leaving a comment. wow!
NNOOO SHE LIES!!!!
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