The 'Technology' Training

One key section of the course will introduce the students to several new areas of computer technology. The course is entirely dependent on the technology to teach the science. The science and technology training will be run side by side, with the technology introduced as required. However, little progress can be made without an initial burst of technology training, and the first two to four weeks will concentrate on getting the students comfortable with the environment in which they will do their learning. Of course, this knowledge is useful not only in the context of structure-based drug design related tasks, but also in the use of the Internet and World-Wide-Web in general.

The technology training aims to:

Introduce the student to the World-Wide-Web, and to learn to effectively and responsibly use network resources, primarily through a web browser
Introduce the student to high performance graphics workstations
Introduce the student to molecular graphics techniques and programs
Author material for the web using HTML or an authoring application

• UNIX
  • logging in, logging out
  • the Motif windowing environment
  • file handling
  • email tools
  • newsgroups
  • network tools
  • netiquette
• Netscape/Mosaic
  • database resources
  • searching the web
  • usage guidelines
  • HTML and authoring
  • security
• Molecular Graphics and Modelling (SYBYL, QUANTA, INSIGHT, etc.)
  • Rasmol and Mage
  • manipulation (rotation, translation, scale, clipping)
  • display (selection, colouring, style)
  • surfaces (calculation, display)
  • reading/writing files
  • measuring (distances, angles, torsions)
  • building ligands
  • minimisation
  • conformational searching
  • use of GRID
  • ligand docking

Creation Date: 24th October 1995