# The Structural Biologist

> Capstone challenge for Module 4: The Bioinformatician's Toolkit. Investigate an unfamiliar protein using all five Module 4 tools in sequence.

Capstone challenge for Module 4: The Bioinformatician's Toolkit. Investigate an unfamiliar protein using all five Module 4 tools in sequence.

- Investigate an unfamiliar protein using all five Module 4 tools in sequence
- Extract and interpret the metadata that qualifies a structure
- Locate structural features through 3D navigation
- Classify conserved positions from an alignment as structural or functional
- Predict functional sites by mapping conservation onto the structure
- Compare an experimental structure with a prediction and account for where they differ

## Links

- [Module 4: The Bioinformatician's Toolkit](https://proteindesign.academy/module/4)
- [4.1 Reading a PDB File](https://proteindesign.academy/module/4/1)
- [4.2 Navigating a 3D Molecular Viewer](https://proteindesign.academy/module/4/2)
- [4.3 Sequence Alignments and BLAST](https://proteindesign.academy/module/4/3)
- [4.4 Evolutionary Conservation and ConSurf](https://proteindesign.academy/module/4/4)
- [4.5 Structure Prediction Landscape](https://proteindesign.academy/module/4/5)