Biochemical Insight of Important Topics (BIO-IT)

This is a tool created for BMSC 200 (Biomolecules) students at the U of S to understand the concepts taught in classroom in an interactive fashion. You can checkout the tool here

Features

With this tool, students can.

• Test their knowledge of peptide chains by answering questions.
• See the visualizations of different amino acid titration curves.
• Memorize the amino acids through the interactive flashcards.

Change Log

• November 27th, 2017

  • Initial release of the tool.
  • Thoroughly tested the peptide functionality.
  • Released Glycine and Alanine titration animations.

• November 28th, 2017

  • Fix the issue where the correct answer didn't get registered for the peptide test section

• December 2nd, 2017

  • Fix the issue where the forward button remained disabled even after going back a step.

• December 4th, 2017

  • Add feedback functionality for the students to give reviews about the software.
  • Add glutamate titration curve base functionality.

• December 24th, 2017

  • Created a new layout for the main page.
  • Implemented a different structure for the titration curves.

• December 31st, 2017

  • Finish the development of titration curves.
  • Created flashcard functionality for amino acids.
  • Created credits page for the application.

Contributors

The construction of this project was done with the help of following people.

1. Flaviu Vadan - Pair programming with various functionalities of the application.
2. Dr. Scott Napper - Giving feedback and suggestions for the project.