Why is knowing the atomic structure of molecules useful? Coordinate data files representing proteins and nucleic acids are freely available online, and are actually used for many research projects.

The discovery of the double helical structure ... that most amino acids are encoded by more than one codon, a property known ...

The order that these bases are found in the genes determines the order of the amino acids they code for. Each gene has a particular order of bases in the DNA, and this leads to a particular order ...

The sequence of amino acids in the chain determines how the ... form attachments and interact with many other molecules and structures inside organisms. The shape of a protein determines what ...

We compute amino acid sequences predicted to fold into proteins with new structures and functions, produce synthetic genes encoding these sequences, and characterize them experimentally. I will ...