The workshop emphasizes the use of the Genetics Computer Group (GCG) series of Sequence Analysis programs, as well as many of the Worldwide Web-based tools currently available for use. It also insists on the importance of visualization tools in the field of structure analysis of the macromolecules. The workshop consists of a series of lectures, demonstrations, and discussions that are directed at providing an overall understanding of how to analyze genetic sequence information by computer. This includes basic analyses such as restriction mapping and detection of coding sequences, to more advanced analyses such as sequence similarity searching, sequence comparisons and multi-sequence alignment; evolutionary analysis of gene families; prediction of functional motifs from primary sequence information; and current tools for the mapping, assembly, and analysis of genomic sequence information. Protein Visualization has become an important research topic, especially in light of the accomplishment of the Human Genome Project. The ability to visualize the 3D structure is of proteins is critical in many areas like, drug design, protein modeling. This is because that the 3D structure of a protein determines its interaction with other molecules, hence its function, and the relation of the protein to other known proteins. In this workshop, we briefly discuss how to create molecular structures from the protein data. We also present two accompanying textual views, which are helpful in browsing the amino acid sequence and viewing the hierarchical organization of the protein data.
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