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Week 1Section 1

Central Dogma Overview

Understanding the flow of genetic information from DNA to proteins

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Overview

Understanding the flow of genetic information from DNA to proteins

Activities & Tasks
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Read Central Dogma Chapter

Study the fundamental process of protein synthesis

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Amino Acid Analysis Script

Write Python code to analyze amino acid composition

coding
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Week Resources

Required Readings

Molecular Biology of the Cell, Ch. 4: Proteins
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Introduction to Protein Structure (NCBI primer)
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Exercises

Coding Exercise

Python script to compute amino acid frequencies from FASTA

Visualization

Explore insulin (PDB: 4INS) with Mol* Viewer

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