Computational Structural Biology: Winter 2024

Proteins

While all bio-molecules play an important part in life, there is something special about proteins, which are theproductsoftheinformationcontainedinthegenes. Aperhapssurprisingfindingthatcrystallizedover the last handful of decades is that geometric reasoning plays a major role in our attempt to understand the activities of these molecules. In this section, the basic principles that govern the shapes of protein structures are briefly discussed.

(from Wikipedia article on proteins (see below))