Web-Based Computational Chemistry Education with CHARMMing I: Lessons and Tutorial

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Miller, Benjamin T ^a   Singh, Rishi P ^a   Schalk, Vinushka ^b   Pevzner, Yuri ^c   Sun, Jingjun ^a   Miller, Carrie S ^d   Boresch, Stefan ^e   Ichiye, Toshiko ^d   Brooks, Bernard R ^a   Woodcock III, H Lee ^c  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION COMPUTING; PYTHON; TEACHING; WEB BROWSERS; WEBSITES;

ADVANCED SIMULATION TECHNIQUES; BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULE; CHEMISTRY EDUCATION; COURSEWORKS; FULLY COMPATIBLE; MOBILE WEB BROWSERS; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS; WEB BASED; WEB USER INTERFACE;

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; LEARNING STYLE; MACROMOLECULE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHYSICS; WEB BROWSER; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DATABASE; TEACHING;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; INTERNET; MODELS, MOLECULAR; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84905457391     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003719     Document Type: Article

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