Section 1 - Introduction to the Course

Index to Course Material

• Proteins - a brief overview

  
  
  

• Internet Tutorial
  A number of you may already be very familiar with most aspects of the Internet, but this is included as a reference for those who may be newer to the technology, as its essential that everyone appreciates how we communicate with each other and how to navigate the 'Net. This tutorial was originally written by Sami Raza, and has been updated for the PPS course by Oliver Theis.
  The tutorial includes an introduction to writing HTML, if you're thinking of putting together your own home page or any other material. We will be looking at some more sophisticated applications of HTML later in the course.
• An additional brief Introduction to Network Resources

• You should also refer to Chapter 2 (particularly sections 1-5) of the VSNS Biocomputing Course, Networking by David Steffen, which describes the application of the Internet to biological sciences. The chapter is mirrored at
  • Manchester, UK
  • Baylor, US

• Some of you have already visited BioMOO; if not, heres the PPS page on MOOs; Iddo Friedberg has written this Introduction to MOOing

Thanks to

• Iddo Friedberg
• Raj Gill
• Gustavo Glusman
• Eric Mercer
• Sami Raza
• David Steffen
• Oliver Theis

Index to Course Material

Last updated 14th Jan '96