2020 AMS-536 Spring (revised syllabus)
THIS IS A REVISED SYLLABUS, PLEASE SEE REVISED SYLLABUS NOTES BELOW
THIS IS A REVISED SYLLABUS, PLEASE SEE REVISED SYLLABUS NOTES BELOW
THIS IS A REVISED SYLLABUS, PLEASE SEE REVISED SYLLABUS NOTES BELOW
THIS IS A REVISED SYLLABUS, PLEASE SEE REVISED SYLLABUS NOTES BELOW
| Supervisor | Dr. Robert C. Rizzo [631-632-9340, robert dot rizzo -at- stonybrook.edu] |
| Instructor | Dr. Guilherme Duarte Ramos Matos [631-632-8519, guilherme dot duarteramosmatos -at- stonybrook dot edu] |
| Teaching Assistant | Steve Telehany [631-632-8519, stephen dot telehany - at - stonybrook dot edu] |
| Course No. | AMS-536 / CHE-536 |
| Location/Time | Math Tower, Room S235 (COMPUTER LAB next to SINC site), Mon/Wed 2:30PM - 3:50PM |
| Office Hours | By appointment, Math Tower, Room 3-129, Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics |
| Acknowledgments | The AMS-536 instructors would like to thank: (1) Chemical Computing Group at http://www.chemcomp.com for generously providing MOE software teaching licenses |
| Grading | Grades will be based on the quality of: (1) attendance, participation in class discussion, wiki tutorial construction, assisting others (25%) |
Contents
Revised Syllabus Notes
As a result of the COVID-19 outbreak the course syllabus has been revised per University guidelines to address the semester being shortened by one week and document changes necessary to teach the course online for the rest of the semester. A brief summary of the changes include:
(0) The course grading criteria has been modified (see grading breakdown above).
(1) The schedule has been revised starting March 23 2020.
(2) We will continue to hold class at the regularly scheduled time however this will now be done online via the Zoom program ( https://it.stonybrook.edu/services/zoom ).
(3) AMBER tutorials are being prerecorded by the Instructors and will be uploaded as appropriate into the course schedule as online videos.
(4) AMBER tutorials should be viewed online before each relevant Zoom meetings so that meeting time can be spent troubleshooting and providing other guidance as necessary for class tutorials.
(5) Class time normally devoted to watching and evaluating Oral Presentations will instead be used for Zoom meetings devoted to troubleshooting and providing other guidance as necessary for Class Projects.
(6) Oral Presentations of Class Projects will be recorded by each participant individually (see Recording Your Oral Presentation Using Zoom section below), at home, and then emailed to the Instructors (see Video Presentation due date below).
(7) Oral Presentations of Class Projects will be evaluated by 3 course participants and a Presentation Assessment Sheet for each talk evaluated will be submitted based on the Reviewer Assignments outlined below.
(8) The Student Accessibility Support Center Statement (see below) has been updated
(9) A Faculty Technical Support Statement (see below) has been added
Project Information
Student Project Proposal OHARE Sheet
Oral Presentation Guidelines: These meetings should be formal and your chance to tell a complete story. Talks should be presented in PPT format and be between 20 and 30 minutes long. The purpose of your talks is for you to clearly and concisely present your overall progress to date including appropriate background material and interpretation of your results. Check our guidelines on how not to make a presentation. Talks should be arranged in the following order:
- Introduction/Background (include biological relevance)
- Specifics of Your System
- Computational Details (theory)
- Computational Details (system setup)
- Results and Discussion (include a critical interpretation of your results)
- Conclusions
- Future
- Acknowledgments
Recording Your Oral Presentation Using Zoom: It is very straightforward to create a video of yourself giving a PPT presentation using Zoom:
- Download the Zoom app ( https://it.stonybrook.edu/services/zoom )
- Open the Zoom app
- Create a new Zoom meeting with only yourself (make sure audio and video are turned on)
- Share your screen
- Open your presentation in PPT and put in presentation mode
- Start recording and give a short test presentation to make sure that everything is working smoothly (use mouse as necessary to highlight specific regions of your slides)
- Stop recording and quit the meeting
- Open the newly created video (using QuickTime or some other video player) to make sure that your test presentation has both audio and video and looks good
- Follow the above steps to create your "full-length" video presentation (videos should not exceed 20 minutes)
- Email your video to the Instructors who will make it available to the class (please name your Zoom video Lastname.mp4)
Final Written Report Guidelines and Example Final Papers: Written project guidelines and example papers to use as a guide are provided below.
Tutorials, Software Links, and Other Relevant Class Information
- Rizzo_Lab_Information_and_Tutorials
- Cheat Sheet:
- Unix Command Guide
- Seawulf Queue Info
- Wikitext Cheat Sheet (for preparing tutorial Wiki page)
- Wikitext Formatting Tips (for making the tutorial Wiki page pretty)
- Chimera Basics - Video
- Chimera Structure Analysis - Video
- Top Pharmaceutical Posters
- DOCK6.9 User Manual
- AMBER 16 User Manual
- Free Energy Calculations
Schedule
- Please note that a doctor's excuse will be required if you miss your scheduled oral presentation date because of illness.
| Date | Participant | Notes |
| SECTION 1: COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE AND TOOLS | ||
| 2020.01.27 Mon | Group Study | First Day of Class Seawulf accounts setup unix / vim / csh introduction Discuss presentations and final projects (OHARE sheets) |
| 2020.01.29 Wed | Group Study | Seawulf accounts setup unix / vim / csh introduction Visualization demo's Chimera and VMD |
| 2020.02.03 Mon | Group Study | Seawulf accounts setup unix / vim / csh introduction Visualization demo's Chimera and VMD |
| 2020.02.05 Wed | Group Study | Seawulf accounts setup unix / vim / csh introduction Visualization demo's Chimera and VMD |
| 2020.02.10 Mon | Group Study | Seawulf queuing system |
| 2020.02.12 Wed | Group Study | Seawulf queuing system Ethics in Writing (Rob) |
| SECTION 2: DOCK TUTORIAL | see Joe Allen DOCK slides | |
| 2020.02.17 Mon | Group Study | Draft Student Project Proposal OHARE Sheet Due Tutorials: DOCK virtual screening individual project discussion |
| 2020.02.19 Wed | Group Study | Tutorials: DOCK virtual screening individual project discussion |
| 2020.02.24 Mon | Group Study | Final Student Project Proposal OHARE Sheet Due Tutorials: DOCK virtual screening individual project discussion |
| 2020.02.26 Wed | Group Study | Tutorials: DOCK virtual screening individual project discussion |
| 2020.03.02 Mon | Group Study | Tutorials: DOCK virtual screening individual project discussion |
| 2020.03.04 Wed | Group Study | Tutorials: DOCK virtual screening individual project discussion |
| 2020.03.09 Mon | Group Study | Tutorials: DOCK de novo design individual project discussion |
| 2020.03.11 Wed | Group Study | Tutorials: DOCK de novo design individual project discussion |
| 2020.03.16 Mon | Spring Recess | Spring Recess |
| 2020.03.18 Wed | Spring Recess | Spring Recess |
| REVISED SCHEDULE BEGINS HERE | REVISED SCHEDULE BEGINS HERE | |
| 2020.03.23 Mon | Extended Spring Recess | Extended Spring Recess Please make sure that the Zoom program is up and running on your home computer https://it.stonybrook.edu/services/zoom |
| 2020.03.25 Wed | Extended Spring Recess | Extended Spring Recess Please make sure that the Zoom program is up and running on your home computer https://it.stonybrook.edu/services/zoom |
| SECTION 3: AMBER TUTORIAL | see Lingling Jiang AMBER slides see Steve Telehaney slides | |
| 2020.03.30 Mon | Online Group Study | Tutorials: AMBER molecular dynamics see AMBER Video #1 individual project discussion |
| 2020.04.01 Wed | Online Group Study | Tutorials: AMBER molecular dynamics see AMBER Video #2.1 see AMBER Video #2.2 see AMBER Video #2.3 individual project discussion |
| 2020.04.06 Mon | Online Group Study | Tutorials: AMBER molecular dynamics see AMBER Video #3.1 see AMBER Video #3.2 individual project discussion |
| 2020.04.08 Wed | Online Group Study | Tutorials: AMBER molecular dynamics see AMBER Video #4.1 see AMBER Video #4.2 see AMBER Video #4.3 individual project discussion |
| 2020.04.13 Mon | Online Group Study | Tutorials: AMBER molecular dynamics see AMBER Video #5 individual project discussion |
| 2020.04.15 Wed | Online Group Study | Tutorials: AMBER molecular dynamics see AMBER Video #6 individual project discussion |
| SECTION 4: CLASS PROJECTS | ||
| 2020.04.20 Mon | Online Group Study | Draft Paper Due Project Analysis/Troubleshooting |
| 2020.04.22 Wed | Online Group Study | Project Analysis/Troubleshooting |
| 2020.04.27 Mon | Online Group Study | Video Presentations of Class Projects Must be Emailed to Guilherme by 2:30PM (please name files as "Lastname.mp4") Project Analysis/Troubleshooting Each course participant will watch and evaluate 3 Presentations (~ 20 minutes each) based on the Reviewer Assignment schedule below and submit a Presentation Assessment Sheet for each Video (due 1 week from today). Instructors will evaluate 3-4 presentations each.
(2) Guerra
(3) Laverty
(4) Jayanetti
(5) Stepanenko
(6) Zhang
(7) Chakraborti
(8) Pak
(9) Cardetti
(10) Zhu
(11) He
(12) Rob
(13) Steve
(14) Guilherme
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| 2020.04.29 Wed | Online Group Study | Project Analysis/Troubleshooting |
| 2020.05.04 Mon | Online Group Study | Presentation Assessment Sheets Must Be Emailed to Guilherme by 2:30PM based on your Reviewer Assignments from above Project Analysis/Troubleshooting |
| 2020.05.06 Wed | Online Group Study | Last Day Class Project Analysis/Troubleshooting |
| 2020.05.08 Fri | Final Written Report due by 5PM today. | Final Written Report due by 5PM today. Please email electronic copy to rizzorc -at- gmail dot com and guilherme dot duarteramosmatos -at- stonybrook dot edu |
GENERAL INFORMATION: AMS-536 is designed for students who wish to gain hands-on experience modeling biological molecules at the atomic level. In conjunction with the participants' interest, Molecular Mechanics, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, Docking (virtual screening), or Quantum Mechanics software packages will be used. Projects will include setup, execution, and analysis. Students will work on individual projects outside of class. Course participants will give presentations relevant to the simulations being performed and a final project report will be required. Grades will be based on the quality of the talks, participation in class discussion, attendance, and the final written report. Familiarity with working in a Unix (Linux) environment is desirable.
Learning Obectives:
- (1) Gain hands-on experience modeling biological molecules at the atomic level.
- (2) Learn to navigate linx/unix operating system
- (3) Learn shell scripting and text-based editing (vim program)
- (4) Learn to use a linux-based computing cluster that has a queuing system
- (5) Learn to use visualization software (Chimera, MOE, and VMD programs)
- (6) Setup, execute, and analyze docking (DOCK) and molecular dynamics (AMBER) tutorials.
- (7) Give oral presentations on individual research projects which includes:
- (i) Introduction/Background (include biological relevance)
- (ii) Specifics of Your System
- (iii) Computational Details (theory)
- (iv) Computational Details (system setup)
- (v) Results and Discussion (include a critical interpretation of your results)
- (vi) Conclusions
- (vii) Future
- (viii) Acknowledgments
- (8) Write a polished well-referenced manuscript in the format of a peer-reviewed Journal Article.
LITERATURE DISCLAIMER: Hyperlinks and manuscripts accessed through Stony Brook University's electronic journal subscriptions are provided below for educational purposes only.
PRESENTATION DISCLAIMER: Presentations may contain slides from a variety of online sources for educational and illustrative purposes only, and use here does not imply that the presenter is claiming that the contents are their own original work or research.
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