Gale Rhodes

Professor of Chemistry
University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine 04103-9300
rhodes@usm.maine.edu

Biochemistry Survivors: If you studied biochemistry at USM, please click HERE.
If you think my office is in disarray, you should see my mind.
Here are a few areas of order that have emerged from the confusion:
Biochemistry Resources (CHY 361/363)
BIOCHEMISTRY STUDENTS: Syllabi for my USM biochemistry courses, along with useful tools for learning biochemistry, including learning strategies and interactive graphics illustrations from my biochemistry classes at USM. USM students can follow up classroom discussions with further study of classroom graphics.
TEACHERS: Biochemistry Resources may be useful in your biochemistry teaching.
General Chemistry Resources
GENERAL CHEMISTRY STUDENTS: Syllabus, schedule, and policies for my sections of first-year chemistry. Other useful items may appear as the spirit moves me.
Crystallography Made Crystal Clear:
   A Guide for Users of Macromolecular Models, Academic Press, 1993.
   Ever wondered how crystallographers derive molecular models from those enigmatic x-ray diffraction patterns? This little book can help you, and as well, can prepare you to get the most from the many protein (and other macromolecular) structures that are now available to biological scientists.
Graphics Tutorials
   TEACHERS: Introduce your students to molecular modelling, with free software your students can use at home. Make vivid classroom illustrations that help you teach biomolecular structure.
   STUDENTS: Get free molecular graphics programs for your home computer. Use them to deepen your understanding of complex structures in biochemistry.
Which Graphics Program Is For You?
SwissPdbViewer Tutorial for NEW Version 3.1 (October 1, 1998))
Tutorial for a friendly, powerful protein viewer and structure analysis tool.
This tutorial is REQUIRED for all students in my Biochemistry Lab at USM (CHY 362)
RasMol TutorialTutorial for a versatile molecular viewer, revised May 1997.
MAYBE YOU'VE BEEN WONDERING: How to Make RasMol Scripts Portable.
MAGE Tutorial
   This one is a bit dated. But if you own one of the MAGE textbook supplements, this tutorial will show you how to get more out of MAGE and its companion image-maker program PREKIN
Search the Protein Data Bank
Search for biomolecules to view with any graphics program.
Beginners: Choose PDB Lite for easy searching.
Advanced Users: Use the 3DB Browser.

Library for the Reading-Time Challenged    A dozen (or so) little books for readers in a hurry.
Student-Led Discussion: A User's Manual
   Teachers: Improve classroom discussions by taking yourself out of them.


The Well-Read Biochemist
   If you really like science, why should you bother with fiction, poetry, or essays? Look here for surprising connections between biochemistry and culture.
Molecular Graphics in your Classroom
Resources for Participants in the Following Workshops:
·ACS Maine Section Meeting, University of New England, April 18, 1998
·Biotechnology Works!, University of Southern Maine, July 22, 1998.
Molecular Graphics Projects for Introductory Biochemistry
Poster Presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Diffraction Methods in Molecular Biology, Proctor Academy, Andover, NH, June 21-26, 1998.
TEACHERS:
Please support my work at this web site by requesting permission to use these materials in your teaching. Here's why.
NOTE
I will be on sabbatical leave from July 1 1998 until January 1999, during which time I will give only sporadic attention to this web site.
Please note that syllabi and course policies at this site apply ONLY to courses or sections that I teach.

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