The CMBI is deeply involved in protein structure research. The first topic we normally do in collaboration with experimental scientists.
Structure validation is needed to do the first two topics as good as possible.
Databases and information systems are needed to do the points 1-3 as good as possible. As the CMBI is also a service institute, we make those databases publicly accessible. There is no recipe for explaining biology and medicine. The only things that are certain are that you need to know a lot about many different topics and combine that knowledge with as much data as you can find. On the 'small projects and services' page you can find a small collection of the kind of projects we work on.