Nov
09
2011
0

Protein design: breaks gluten, wins iGEM2011

An undergraduate group of students from the University of Washington, managed to redesign an enzyme to efficiently break down a model peptide for Gluten, achieving an increase in activity of hundreds fold over the only current clinically tested treatment for Gluten intolerance – Winning iGEM2011. All this, over the summer. Oh, and they also managed to produce Diesel in E. Coli.

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Nov
05
2011
0

A twitter roundup

For those not yet following us (@molmodelblog) on twitter, a roundup of interesting links from the weekend:

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Nov
04
2011
4

Molecular Modeling Software

@biosoftcn avidly tweets and curates bioinformatics and modeling software (collected at http://www.mybiosoftware.com). We selected some links relevant to you molecular modelers. Feel free to add software not found here through the comments.
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Nov
04
2011
1

Olympic Crystal Packing

In the spirit of the 2012 Olympic games. Found at the webpage of the group of Prof. Heinz Neumann, Department for Molecular Structural Biology, Georg-August-University Göttingen. Anyone knows what protein is it?

Olympic Crystal Packing

Olympic Crystal Packing

HT to ravehb for the finding.

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