Please let me know if any of these links do not work!
General Resources#
3Blue1Brown YouTube Series
Crash Course (everything by them is good)
Online Textbooks
- Chemistry - the Central Science
- Intro to Protein Structure (thank you Dr. Ponder!)
Online Course Materials by Jay Ponder
Foundational Concepts#
Biology#
Lecture 01, concept 12: The central dogma of molecular biology
General Chemistry#
Organic Chemistry#
Biochemistry#
Amino Acid Chemistry#
Blog - A Brief Guide to the Twenty Common Amino Acids
Protein Structure#
LibreText - Secondary Structure of Proteins
LibreText - Backbone Dihedrals and Ramachandran Plots
Protein Dynamics#
Lecture 03, concept 01: Interactions and their role for flexibility in amino acids
ATP hydolysis#
LibreText - ATP-The Universal Energy Currency
Statistical Mechanics#
The Boltzmann Distribution#
Lecture 03, concept 04: Deriving the Boltzmann distribution (a special case)
Lecture 03, concept 05: Relative populations in states
Lecture 03, concept 06: Entropy and free energy - accounting for multiplicity/volume
Lecture 03, concept 07: Microstates vs. Macrostates (multiplicity vs. disorder)
Our Proteins#
Motor Proteins#
Review - Kinesins and Myosins: Molecular Motors that Coordinate Cellular Functions in Plants
Book Chapter - Actin, Myosin, and Cell Movement
Ion Channels#
Book Chapter - Ion Channels and the Electrical Properties of Membranes