Computational Methods in Chemistry and Biochemistry Education: Visualization of Proteins

Polina Pine

Polina Pine ; Liudmila Ivanovna Paina

One of the most important skills for a biochemist these days is to be able to visualize a protein, find a ligand binding site, and show the three-dimensional interactions with the coordinated amino acid residues. It is important to educate a modern student how to benefit from the up-to-date scientific data and software. It is known that the primary structure of protein is of primary information content; however, the tertiary structure is more conserved. Biochemistry students are educated in a traditional way giving an importance to developing fundamental skills as well as critical thinking. In this article, we demonstrate educational approaches that incorporate computational methods in the course Biochemistry A-CHEM 370. This approach is developed at Loyola University Chicago and is based on a pedagogical method developed at Orenburg State Medical University.

10-Jan-20

Computing in Science & Engineering

IEEE

10.1109/MCSE.2019.2962118

P. Pine and L. I. Paina, "Computational Methods in Chemistry and Biochemistry Education: Visualization of Proteins," in Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 45-49, 1 July-Aug. 2020, doi: 10.1109/MCSE.2019.2962118.