Library Guides: BMB 401/402: General Biochemistry: Open Educational Resources

Open and Affordable Educational Resources

The term ‘open educational resource’ means a teaching, learning, or research resource that is offered freely to users in at least one form and that resides in the public domain or has been released under an open copyright license that allows for its free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with attribution.The term 'affordable educational resource' is defined as any required course material that students purchase for less than $50.This may include low-cost or no-cost options and library materials that do not have an open license.

Explore the resources below to find relevant and low-cost educational resources that can assist you throughout the course.

UnitProt
The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) is a comprehensive resource for protein sequence and annotation data.
Protein Data Bank
RCSB PDB (RCSB.org) is the US data center for the global Protein Data Bank (PDB) archive of 3D structure data for large biological molecules (proteins, DNA, and RNA) essential for research and education in fundamental biology, health, energy, and biotechnology.
iCn3D
"I see in 3D" (iCn3D) Structure Viewer is not only a web-based 3D viewer, but also a structure analysis tool interactively or in the batch mode using NodeJS scripts based on the npm package icn3d. iCn3D synchronizes the display of 3D structure, 2D interaction, and 1D sequences and annotations.
OASIS - Biochemistry
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. The above link will take you to biochemistry-related resources.
Merlot II
Free, peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials maintained by the California State University System. Search "biochemistry" and explore the resources.
Molecular Workbench
Molecular Workbench (MW) is a modeling tool for designing and conducting computational experiments across science.The MW software delivers an interactive learning environment that supports science inquiry.
Next-Generation Molecular Workbench
Next-Generation Molecular Workbench is similar to the MW description above, but improved web based interface (Browser based).