BioChemPortal combines a fully customizable eBook, tutorials, conceptual learning aids, and homework management tools, all in one affordable and easy-to-use learning space. BioChemPortal connects seamlessly with your campus course management system or can be used independent of any course management system.
BioChemPortal Features:
A fully interactive eBook, featuring:
- Integration of all student media resources including end-of-chapter practice problems in multiple choice and drop-down menu formats that can be easily assigned and graded to save time
- Quick, intuitive navigation to any section or subsection, as well as any printed book page number
- In-text links to all glossary entries
- Easy text highlighting
- A bookmarking feature that allows for quick reference to any page
- A powerful Notes feature that allows students to add notes to any page
- A full glossary and index.
- Full-text search, including an option to also search the glossary and index
- Automatic saving of all notes, highlighting, and bookmarks
Additional eBook features for instructors:
- Content Customization
Instructors can easily hide chapters or sections of chapters that they do not cover in their course, and add pages of their own content into the eBook. - Instructor Notes
Instructors can choose to create an annotated version of the eBook with their notes on any page. When students in their course log in, they will see the instructor's version. Instructor notes can include text, Web links, images, and more.
Studying Protein and Nucleic Acid Structure with Jmol
Jmol is a molecular modeling program, an interactive viewer for three-dimensional structures of proteins and nucleic acids. Biochemists use such programs to examine protein and nucleic acid structure, to plan experiments, and to interpret experimental findings. The use of these programs has become one of the indispensable tools of every biochemist.
Students who use Jmol to explore the structures of protein and nucleic acids as they learn about them in their biochemistry classes will gain a greater appreciation of macromolecular structure.
This manual provides a series of guided tutorials by which students gradually learn to use Jmol as they explore protein structures of increasing complexity. Starting with small monomeric proteins that illustrate basic principles of secondary and tertiary structure, the students progress to look at proteins with ligand binding sites, multiple domains and multiple subunits, eventually examining large protein complexes as well as DNA and RNA.
The manual also includes links to material in the text. This allows students to strengthen their background in key concepts as they complete the included exercises. It alsohelps them relate what they learn from the exercises to the course material.
The great majority of students find that they can follow the instructions in the manual and become competent at using Jmol through self guided instruction.