THEORETICAL COURSE: STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS 

The Structural Bioinformatics Group offers a broad and comprehensive set of lectures in the areas of structural bioinformatics and drug design. The course begins with a general introduction of the drug design pipeline and an introductory course on the structural bioinformatics research field. These lead on to more specialized topics, amongst others in chemo-informatics, molecular docking, homology modeling and more detailed aspects of toxicity prediction models.

Structure of the course:

This course consists of eight lecture series. A detailed lecture for a period of 2 hrs on individual topics is delivered in the morning session. Afternoon session consists of an assignment for each topic. This part of the lecture course is assessed by examination, which will take place at the end of the course. Students are asked to deliver a seminar/presentation for 25 minutes, on the topic assigned to them. The material for the examination will be provided in advance, ensuring that the students have required time for preparation.

Topic for lectures are:

1. Introductory session
2. Homology modeling
3. Peptide design
4. 3D Molecular superimposition of small molecules
5. Comparison and application of structural fingerprints
6. Molecular docking
7. Natural products and fragments based drug discovery
8. In silico toxicity prediction

Important: Material from the theory course will be intensively used in the practical course. It is advisable, that the students need to attend the theory course before participating in the practical course. Both the courses are interlinked

Website: https://bioinformatics.charite.de/main/content/practical_theoretical.php