A cyber-linked undergraduate research experience in computational biomolecular structure prediction and design.

ABSTRACT: Computational biology is an interdisciplinary field, and many computational biology research projects involve distributed teams of scientists. To accomplish their work, these teams must overcome both disciplinary and geographic barriers. Introducing new training paradigms is one way to facilitate research progress in computational biology. Here, we describe a new undergraduate program in biomolecular structure prediction and design in which students conduct research at labs located at geographically-distributed institutions while remaining connected through an online community. This 10-week summer program begins with one week of training on computational biology methods development, transitions to eight weeks of research, and culminates in one week at the Rosetta annual conference. To date

SUBMITTER: Alford RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5720517 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature