Scooter Morris and Conrad Huang will be giving an introductory molecular visualization tutorial using Chimera on August 13 at CSB 2007 (the Conference on Computational Systems Bioinformatics) in San Diego. Interested folks can visit http://www.lifesciencessociety.org/CSB2007/index07.html for more information on CSB 2007. The tutorial abstract is attached below. An Introduction to Molecular Visualization Tutorial at the Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB) conference (AM2) University of California, San Diego August 13, 2007 Abstract Projects such as Structural Genomics are providing increasing numbers of experimental protein and protein-complex structures. Furthermore, increasing numbers of theoretical models are being predicted from primary sequence. Biologists have an increasing need to understand and communicate the structures, functions and relationships between these protein and protein-complex structures. As a result, molecular visualization is becoming an important tool for the presentation and communication of the results of biological experiments and research. This tutorial will provide a basic foundation for the understanding of molecular structures through use of visualization tools. Attendees will learn the basics of molecular visualization and will be provided an overview of available tools and techniques for visualization, analysis and modeling of protein structure. To make these concepts more concrete, attendees will be shown the academic program UCSF Chimera in more detail, and receive instruction in its features and use. The field of structural biology is still changing, and new techniques are continually being developed. Attendees will be shown how they can add new analysis techniques and their own data to the visualization. Outline: 1. Introduction to Molecular Visualization 2. Available Tools 3. Using UCSF Chimera 4. Scenarios of use 5. Extending Chimera