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by dalke 5686 days ago
And then there's quantum mechanics, molecular modeling, microarray analysis, protein folding, drug design, structure visualization, and still more.

If you want good initial projects, try one of these: 1) make a structure viewer (to start, read a PDB file and draw colored spheres in some sort of UI), 2) implement a sequence alignment then use it infer the family tree from a set of related sequences, 3) build a web site which lets someone do full-text or other complex searches of UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot. When you display a record, also render the sequence annotations graphically.