Macromolecular Modeling Blog ™

Some months ago, Bosco Ho, Molecular Dynamics (MD) boy wonder and HTML5 wiz, contacted a group of scientists, myself included, to start a world wide Journal Club (JC). The subject: Molecular Dynamics, the venue? Annotatr – a mashup of CiteULike and Disqus. The motivation behind Annotatr was to get scientists to comment on articles (lower the energy barrier if you prefer).

Since then the MD JC had several prolific sessions, discussing some great MD papers on which I’ll discuss briefly below, as well as recently, a completely unrelated theoretical evolutionary paper just to broaden our horizons.

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Instead of our regular Bi-weekly digest, Lets take a pause and dissect the trends in computational structural biology. As you may noticed, we added to the sidebar a “Structural Bioinformatics” titles feed. This feed is maintained by ~ 30 people at CiteULike, grouped by their liking to: “topics ranging from sequence-structure relationships to molecular simulations of biomolecules”. We used wordle to present popular items on that feed (around 1350 titles) and the results are striking.

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