Sat Nov 11, 2017
11-11-17 Can we repurpose existing drugs to treat new viruses? Learn how students can apply bioinformatics tools like BLAST and Molecule World to address real-world problems and make discoveries.
Your students can use public data to discover new ways to use existing drugs.
In this workshop, you will learn:
- How to find information in the NCBI database about Zika virus and Zika virus reference sequences
- How to find structures from similar viruses, that are binding to drugs
- How to determine if those drugs are likely to bind to Zika virus
Where? NABT 2017, Jefferson / Knickerbocker room in the St. Louis Union Station Hotel
When? Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017 10:30 am - 11:45 am
Presenter:
Sandra Porter
President/Founder
Digital World Biology, LLC
Reference materials:
The NCBI Virus Variation Resources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/viruses/variation/resources/
Molecule World on the iPad