Day 6

In the Center for BioPhysics today, we met our second doctoral student, Daniel Barr. He is a doctoral student of Arjan van der Vaart. Because Arjan is currently out of the country, Daniel stepped in to give us some insight into their field of computational biophysics. Today, we were given a great deal more information on structures of proteins. The most interesting aspect of today's program was learning about the proteiome project. This is another level to the human genome project. When studying the human genome, it was realized that more information would be needed regarding the specific proteins that are created by the genes in order to more fully understand complex organisms, hence the focus on the study of proteins. We also viewed more freeware programs which allow you to view the structure of various proteins in great depth. This also allowed for a 3-dimensional view of proteins.