HI 6327 Session 8

Overview:

  1. Lecture1: Thermodynamics, Ergodicity, Monte Carlo (PDF file)
  2. Lecture2: Continuum Electrostatics (PDF file)
  3. Group Project

Resources and Assignments:


Group Project

Due @ session 11.

Your assignment as a group is to complete a review paper discussing advantages and limitations of five different molecular modeling methods listed below. You will first elect a project leader who is responsible for the coordination of the effort and for writing the introduction and conclusions sections (not less than one and not more than two pages each), and for making the individual sections consistent. The other five students will each contribute a section on an individual method (not less than two and not more than four pages each). In the following the four methods to be discussed are given. You can gather information from textbooks and from class
material and references therein, including online resources.

<>The last lecture on ligand binding and docking methods will be presented in class only one week before the due date, so the person responsible for this method may wish to read chapters 22 and 23 in Bourne and Weissig to get started early. Also, don't wait too long to get started as this project will overlap with your final term project that will be posted in session 10 and is due at session 14!

Given below are two scientific papers for each method, one that is highlighting advantages and one that is highlighting limitations. Focus on general methods and not on individual program packages, and write in your own words (don't copy text longer than half a sentence at a time from text sources). Please send the paper as a PDF e-mail attachment before session 11 to wriggers >>at<< biomachina.org.

Molecular Dynamics Simulation Normal Mode Analysis Continuum Electrostatics Free Energy Calculations Ligand Binding and Docking Good luck!