Project 01 In-Class Activity


Welcome to Nanome

Getting Started [5 minutes]

The Environment [4 minutes]

COVID-19 Main Protease [6 minutes]

Build Your Own Molecule [5 minutes]

Evaluation [5 minutes]

Academic and Enterprise Features

References

  Welcome to Nanome

Welcome to Nanome - a Social VR Platform for Exploring Chemistry. It allows for the  observation, manipulation, and building of molecules in an immersive virtual environment. Its applications extend to research scientists working in the laboratory and developing new drugs and insights from existing data.  


Nanome is a startup co-founded in 2015 by engineering students at the University of California San Diego, who saw a need for 3D visualization tools to help medicinal and computational chemists and structural biologists reduce their time to market and increase the efficacy of new drugs (a process that can cost billions of dollars per drug). 

Getting Started [5 minutes] 


The Environment [4 minutes] 

[adapted from the official Nanome Documentation] 


COVID-19 Main Protease [6 minutes] 



Build Your Own Molecule [5 minutes] 

[ideally, this new molecule would be designed with the COVID-19 main protease active site in mind. Such a molecule would act as an inhibitor prohibiting the replication of the virus. Because we are not chemists, feel free to build any molecule that comes to mind or just see what you come up with!] [adapted from Nanome Documentation] 


Evaluation [5 minutes] 

Academic and Enterprise Features 

Here are some pretty awesome features that come with the paid versions of Nanome. These features are beyond the scope of this in-class activity but I highly recommend you explore them on your own, especially since you all just started your two weeks free trial: 


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