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1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
Abstract:
This article reports a workshop from the 2021 IUBMB/ASBMB Teaching Science with Big Data conference held virtually in June 2021 where participants learned to explore and visualize large quantities of protein PBD data using Jupyter notebooks and the Python programming language. This activity instructs participants using Jupyter notebooks, Python functions, loading data with Python, and visualize data using the matplotlib and seaborn Python plotting libraries. It also allows participants to explore large quantities of data to discover trends such amino acid abundance, dihedral angles patterns, and secondary protein structure trends. All files used in this activity, including data files, Jupyter notebooks, and completed Jupyter notebooks, are freely available at https://github.com/weisscharlesj/BiopythonRamachandran under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Creative Commons license.
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