Dear CCP4, I apologize if this is off topic but I thought this may be a good community to ask. Before we re-invent the wheel this end, we are looking for any commercial source of three-dimensional macromolecular models that can be used to teach how drugs are designed to fit to protein targets. Our audience is mid to advanced high-school students and we are looking for materials that can withstand being passed around the students and can teach basic concepts of how structure can inform ligand binding.
There are commercial sources of these models for macromolecules that we are aware of, but few if any that allow us to manipulate a drug and show how it fits to the model. We would love to find ones where a student may have name recognition of the drug concerned and we can show how it would fit to the target of that drug. Any experience in this area and a source of such models would be greatly appreciated. We enjoy our interactions with these students and have the advantage of a professional high-school science teacher/science curriculum developer on staff with Nicole Terranova (copied on the email). Our program related to this is being developed and if anyone has any experiences with this nature of teaching, any offline feedback would be appreciated. Thank you, Eddie Edward Snell Ph.D. President and CEO | Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Director | NSF BioXFEL Science and Technology Center Professor, Materials Design and Innovation | University at Buffalo, SUNY Fellow of the American Crystallographic Association - The Structural Science Society p: +1 716 898 8631 | f: +1 716 898 8660 e: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> skype: eddie.snell Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute 700 Ellicott Street | Buffalo, NY 14203-1102 hwi.buffalo.edu<https://hwi.buffalo.edu/> [hwi-logo-primary-horizontal] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
