What's in a code: DNA

Protocol for extracting & seeing your own DNA

Nucleobases from meteorites: articles one two

DNA structure solution: Step-by step tale with an emphasis on where key clues came from & how they fit together

The Race for DNA History of the Quest for the Structure (interviews, timeline)

Downside of PCR: the phantom criminal

HHMI: DNA sequencing & PCR lab simulation

HHMI movies on DNA replication, transcription

Detailed 3D DNA replication, accounting for the hoops of anti-parallel replication

Evolving a bacterium that doesn't use thymine (uses the very similar 5-chloro-uracil)

Using DNA sequences to make molecular art

The next step: 3D molecular DNA art

Using DNA's basepairing properties to direct the assembly of nano machine parts

PyMol: A free, cross-platform molecular visualization program (generates stuff like in the class exercises)

Find PDB files: Source for .pdb files, which are the 3D coordinate positions of atoms. These files are the raw info for Jmol, Chime, Rasmol, PyMol, SPDBviewer...

Mountains out of molehills: a nucleotide doth not a genetic material make

DNA visualization 3D (UMass molvis)

Combo DNA investigation/jmol demo

Simple DNA structure tutorial (JMOL)

Calculating the length of all the DNA in your body

Amino acid SURFACES (for the StructViewer exercise)

Spider dancing with audio (contr. Amy A., Kyle M.)