Course content

To see details about the live CCPBioSim course and the original programme, you can refer to the course page and programme.

The contents table below outlines the different sessions that were included in the course, as well as the format of the materials (slides/videos/practicals) and each session’s trainer. Either proceed through the materials using the arrows at the end of each page or pick your topic of interest from the table below to skip straight to it.

 Presentation slides –  View or download the slides

 Practicals – View or download the slides, exercises, datasets, analysis scripts and results

Format	Subject	Trainer
	Introduction to concepts in molecular biology, proteins, and variants
	Genetic variation in health and disease	Franca Fraternali
	Introduction to genes	Aleena Mushtaq
	Genomics resources for simulators	Aleena Mushtaq, Dona Shaju, Timothe Cezard
	Functional prediction of variants using ProtVar	James Stephenson
	Protein sequences, experimental and AI-predicted structures, and variant mapping resources
	Protein sequence resources	Elena Speretta, Nadya Urakova
	Experimental structure data, validation, and visualization	David Armstrong
	Experimental structure analysis	David Armstrong
	Predicted structure databases and validation	Paulyna Magaña
	Generating predicted structures	Paulyna Magaña
	Variant mapping tools and databases	Timir Weston
	Variant effect prediction and Introductory Molecular Dynamics
	Variant effect prediction	Aleena Mushtaq
	Introduction to molecular dynamics simulations	Timir Weston
	Molecular dynamics simulation practical using Titin domains	Timir Weston, Maria Laura De Sciscio, Franca Fraternali and Oriol Gracia I Carmona
	Molecular Dynamics simulations and Trajectory analysis	Timir Weston, Maria Laura De Sciscio, Franca Fraternali and Oriol Gracia I Carmona
	Further learning