Teaching Structural Bioinformatics with BiochemicalAlgorithms.jl
Jennifer Leclaire, Andreas Hildebrandt
Teaching a structural bioinformatics course is challenging as the audience typically consists of diverse academic backgrounds. Here, we describe our experience on teaching a course based on our framework BiochemicalAlgorithms.jl, which is a redesign of the open source C++-framework Biochemical Algorithms Library (BALL). The use of Julia allowed to focus more on the actual teaching goals, while the students of the former C++-based course were distracted by complex development cycles.