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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