Principles of Protein Structure, Comparative Protein Modelling, and Visualisation

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Part I: Introduction to Protein structure

Chapter 1: Secondary Structure and Backbone Conformation
Chapter 2: Super-secondary structure
Chapter 3: Side Chain Conformation
Chapter 4: Tertiary Protein Structure and folds
SCOP and CATH: Short description of Fold Classification Servers
Chapter 5: Quaternary Structure

Part II: Protein modelling with SWISS-MODEL

Tutorial: SWISS-MODEL Workspace Tutorial
Nature Protocol: Protein structure homology modeling using SWISS-MODEL workspace

Part III: Model quality

Tools: SWISS-MODEL Workspace tools
QMEAN Server

Part V: Protein Structure Visualization

DeepView - Swiss-PdbViewer
Tools: Protein Structure visualization tools

Appendices

Appendix A: Recommended reading
Appendix B: A few useful URLs

Contributions:

The 5 first chapters of this course are adapted from the Internet course on protein structure by J. Cooper, J. Walshaw & Alan Mills. The following chapters are by MC. Peitsch and N.Guex., GlaxoWellcome Experimental Research S.A. 16, chemin des Aulx 1228 Plan-les-Ouates / Switzerland.

Last modification: Please note that these pages have not been updated since 1999 and are provided on a "as is basis". We are currently working on an updated version of this course.