The teacher will directly provide the support material to the students, considering the guidelines that the teacher gave in the first lesson. Module of protein modeling (CFU 2+1) • Introduction to protein structure and the folding mechanism • Uniprot and other useful biological DBs • Protein Data Bank and overview of experimental methods to obtain the 3D structure model of a macromolecule • File formats for small- and macro-molecules • PDB models analysis • 3D visualization tools • Sequence alignments • 3D alignments • Methods for secondary structure prediction • Methods for 3D structure prediction • Validation and analysis of models • Overview of structure-based computational methods • Introduction to System Biology