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Name: Structural Computational Biology: Introduction and Background
ID: m11614
Language: English (en)
Summary: This module contains motivational and biochemical background material for a computer scientist beginning to learn about computational structural biology.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: alpha helix, amino acid, beta sheet, conformation, cryoEM, NMR, polypeptide, primary structure, protein, quaternary structure, secondary structure, structural biology, tertiary structure, X-ray crystallography
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Lydia E. Kavraki (kavraki@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: Lydia E. Kavraki (kavraki@rice.edu)
Maintainers: Lydia E. Kavraki (kavraki@rice.edu), Amarda Shehu (shehua@cs.rice.edu), David Schwarz (dschwarz@rice.edu), Hernan Stamati (hstamati@cs.rice.edu)
Latest version: 1.14 (history)
First publication date: Sep 23, 2003 7:59 pm GMT-5
Last revision to module: Jun 11, 2007 1:55 am GMT-5
Module XML: m11614_1.14.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.14 Jun 11, 2007 1:55 am GMT-5 by Hernan Stamati
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Version: 1.13 Mar 22, 2007 3:20 pm GMT-5 by Hernan Stamati
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Reduced the size of more images.
Version: 1.12 Mar 22, 2007 1:52 pm GMT-5 by Hernan Stamati
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 Scaled down most images for display.
Version: 1.11 Mar 22, 2007 1:34 pm GMT-5 by Hernan Stamati
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Removed older 2006 statistics and directed to websites for the latest numbers.
Version: 1.10 Mar 21, 2007 7:19 pm GMT-5 by Hernan Stamati
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Reduced a few image sizes.
Version: 1.9 Mar 21, 2007 4:50 pm GMT-5 by Hernan Stamati
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Removed unnecessary image files and converted BMP to JPG.
Version: 1.8 Mar 8, 2007 4:43 pm US/Central by Hernan Stamati
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Added all suggested edits.
Version: 1.7 May 9, 2006 8:05 pm GMT-5 by David Schwarz
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Edited.
Version: 1.6 May 8, 2006 4:55 pm GMT-5 by David Schwarz
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Changes per Dr. Kavraki's edits.
Version: 1.5 Apr 5, 2006 6:47 pm GMT-5 by David Schwarz
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Moved additional reading and added links to end.
Version: 1.4 Mar 28, 2006 3:19 am US/Central by David Schwarz
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Fixed broken image.  Commented out links to Crystallography 101 and RCSB links page for other structural repositories.  Both of these links were dead.
Version: 1.3 Mar 27, 2006 4:10 pm US/Central by David Schwarz
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Added Hernan as maintainer.
Version: 1.2 Mar 24, 2006 9:53 am US/Central by Chuck Bearden
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Published to add new roles.
Version: 1.1 Sep 23, 2003 9:07 pm GMT-5 by Amarda Shehu
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created module - have yet to add the pictures

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