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  • You'll find SBGrid in 275 structural biology labs located at 85 different institutions in 18 countries around the world. See full map and read more in eLIFE.

  • AlkD (grey) crystal structure bound to DNA containing 3-deaza-3-methyldeoxyadenosine (light green), from Brandt Eichman. Read the full story.

  • Oleg Tsodikov's structure of Eis, an enzyme that allows tuberculosis to resist an antibiotic of last resort. Read more.

  • Professor Catherine Drennan of MIT

    The SBGrid Consortium provides structural biologists worldwide with access to the software they need to discover the shapes of the molecules of life. Read more in eLIFE.

  • Jason McLellan is looking at antibodies that interfere with Ebola membrane fusion. Details in our SBGrid webtale.

  • The chromatophore vesicle of purple bacteria comprises hundreds of cooperating proteins to convert sunlight into chemical energy. Image Credit: J. Stone, M. Sener, K. Schulten. Read more.

  • Jochen Zimmer's artistic rendering of a molecule that assembles and secretes the polysaccharide cellulose across the cell membrane. Learn more.

  • Jalview Developer Geoff Barton's desk with the JalviewAbacus (right) and displayed a dendrogram (tree) for the set of sequences shown in the alignment, using Jalview linked to Chimera. Read the full story here.

  • Herpesvirus proteins form a honeycomb-shaped array from the lab of Kayta Helwein. Read our webtale for details. Photo credit: Naomi Rosenberg

  • The mobile element that conveys methicillin resistance to staph includes a gene that encodes for Cch. Learn more about Phoebe Rice's Chicago lab.

  • Jennifer Doudna's Cas9 enzyme in the CRISPR pathway, published in Science Read more in her webtale.

  • Project MAC display system, circa 1965,

    The Project MAC display system, circa 1965. Read more about the history of molecular graphics software and UCSF Chimera in our SBGrid Tale featuring Bob Langridge and Tom Ferrin.

Recent Software Updates

Sep 12 | PHENIX

(Python-based Hierarchical Environment for INtegrated Xtallography) a software suite for the automated determination of molecular structu... >>
Sep 12 | OpenJDK

(Open Java Development Kit) is a free and open source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). >>
Sep 12 | em2em

a program to convert images from/to formats used in the "electron microscopical community" (3DEM) >>
Aug 18 | RELION

(REgularised LIkelihood OptimisatioN) a stand-alone computer program for Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) refinement of (multiple) 3D reconstru... >>
Aug 17 | adxv

displays protein crystallography X-ray diffraction data. The data may be displayed as a 2-D image, 3-D wire mesh or as integer pixel valu... >>
Aug 16 | ATSAS

a program suite for small-angle scattering (SAXS) data analysis from biological macromolecules. >>
Aug 12 | CCP4

(Collaborative Computational Project, Number 4) a collection of programs and associated data and software libraries used for macromolecul... >>
Thanks to the National Science Foundation

With Partial Support from the National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network MCB #0639193 and NSF EAGER #1448069. Please cite SBGrid's eLife paper and follow our publication guidelines.

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SBGrid Lunch Break with Jason Key

Join us on September 19th to hear from SBGrid's technical lead Jason Key. Jason will introduce some of the newest tools available to SBGrid users, including our new user environment ...

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SBGrid Lunch Break with Toshio Moriya

Join us on October 10th to learn about SPHIRE (SParx for HIgh Resolution Electron microscopy) from Toshio Moriya, post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology SPHIRE: User-friendly ...

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Job Postings for SBGrid Member Labs

Our job postings page advertises open positions for postdocs, students, faculty, and staff in SBGrid member laboratories and institutions. Please send brief descriptions to Michelle. Postings will remain online for ...

The SBGrid Data Bank

An article describing SBGrid's Structural Biology Data Bank (SBDB) appeared in Nature Communications in March 2-16. Read the publication Nat Commun. 2016. 7:10882 and also a story on the SBGrid ...

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