BME110 at UCSC is a 5-credit upper-division course that blends lectures with hands-on labs to teach genome browsers, sequence database searching, motif analysis, multiple sequence alignment, gene ...

Proteins are the molecular workhorses of cells. To understand their functions, scientists soon realized that they had to figure out proteins’ shapes. But solving a protein structure is a challenging ...

(spidroins) through long-read transcriptomics across a broad phylogenetic range, with theoretical implications for protein family evolution, biomaterials, and silk biology. By identifying putative ...