ESU Biochemistry Molecular Analysis Home Page

BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR STUDY TOOLS

This page has been designed as a tool to supplement the biochemistry courses taught through the Department of Chemistry at East Stroudsburg University. The exercises emphasize the visualization of important three-dimensional relationships among biological macromolecules, since the traditional two-dimensional representations in textbooks and presented in a lecture-style course are typically inadequate. These assignments should also serve to introduce molecular modeling, enhance computer skills, and reiterate traditional concepts covered in biochemistry textbooks.

Kinemage (kinetic images) are graphical displays of macromolecular structures that can be viewed interactively using a personal computer (1,2). The kinemage programs were written by David Richardson for use by The Protein Society and their journal 'Protein Science' (3). A tutorial on the use of kinemages is available.

Many of the applications require the use of the programs MAGE (for .kin files) or RASMOL (for .pdb files) to view, analyze and manipulate molecular graphics. Download these programs.



1. gopher://gopher.prosci.uci.edu:70/00/MIME_kin/mime_kin.txt

2. Sokolik, C.W., "KINEMAGE COOKBOOK: A TUTORIAL", gopher://gopher.prosci.uci.edu:70/00/Kinemage/pcMAGE/Mage_4_2.txt

3. Richardson, D.C. and Richardson, J.S. (1992) Protein Sci. 1: 3-9.

ESU BIOCHEMISTRY COURSES AND MOLECULAR STUDY EXERCISES


Diane Husic - dhusic@esu.edu

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