Reminder - EMBO Practical Course on "Computational structural biology - from data to structure to function"

From: Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Date: 8 September 2011 11:56

Hi all,

Just a quick reminder that the deadline for applications for this EMBO practical course is 30 September. See: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson/course_110912_structures.html#registration

--Gerard

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Hi all,

From 14-18 November, an EMBO Practical Course on "Computational structural biology - from data to structure to function" will be held at the EBI in Cambridge (UK). The course is organised by James Watson, Rosemary Wilson, Gerard Kleywegt, Victor Lamzin, Christine Orengo and Gert Vriend.

The course will address computational aspects of protein structure determination, validation and analysis. Students will learn to critically examine and validate data from the Protein Data Bank and use a variety of analysis tools to identify similarities that can help identify function. The course will also provide an introductory session to homology modelling for use with proteins less amenable to structure determination. Finally, the importance of protein structure to drug development will be illustrated with a day focussing on protein interactions, small molecules, chemoinformatics and docking. The course is aimed at PhD students and post-docs working on the collection and analysis of protein structure data. The goal is to provide them with insight into the protein structure determination process, how to critically assess the quality of data from models and also provide expertise in the analysis of protein structure data with a view to predicting protein function.

Registration for the course is now open. For more information, surf to: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson/course_110912_structures.html

--Gerard

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Gerard J. Kleywegt, PDBe, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK
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