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Nobel-Winning AlphaFold2 and RosettaFold: Cracking the Protein Folding Mystery

Summary “Explore how David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their advances in computer-assisted protein design.” Video: How AI Cracked the Protein Folding Code and Won a …

AlphaFold2 with ColabFold in Container

Summary Run the ColabFold version of AlphaFold2 on your laptop (slow without GPU) or on a large Linux cluster. The full tutorial with scripts is located at ColabFold with HTCondor What is AlphaFold2 Excerpt from …

R and Python workshops on Campus – Fall 2024

Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python. (For more details see further below.) – Biochem – Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) – UW Libraries – SSteenbock Library Workshops – Computational Biology, Ecology, …

Environmental Health Tabular data analysis with R and Tidyverse

R and Tidyverse Tabular Data Analysis I have updated the Tabular data analysis with R and Tidyverse course that analyze environmental health data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) a survey research program …

Webinar Data visualisation principles for enhancing effective scientific communication

“Data visualisation principles for enhancing effective scientific communication” Webinar Announcement: “Live Training” This webinar will provide an introduction to data visualisation principles. It includes a review of basic concepts and showcases tools to improve your …

PyMOL and Biological Units from REMARK 350

Summary Compute biological assembly from coordinates with a python script. Symmetry X-ray crystallography solved the mathematical problem to provide 3D (cartesian) coordinates but the resulting “asymmetric unit cell” does not necessarily represent the biological structure. …