Published: Sept. 27, 2026
Protein databanks are bursting with 3D structures that reveal molecules in vivid atomic details. But most of these molecules have been purified and studied in isolation, outside their native cellular …
News
Most recent news
Published: Aug. 27, 2026
SBGrid is launching the SBGrid CryoEM Cloud Tournament, a global competition in which teams will process the same confidential, unpublished CryoEM dataset in an AWS cloud environment and compete to …
Published: Aug. 26, 2026
Viruses are usually studied as villains. After all, they can spread disease and death, disrupt society, and destroy crops. Fewer people look to them as allies. But viruses aren't all …
Published: March 27, 2026
In pathogens, RNA carries genetic instructions that are responsible for some of the world’s deadliest and intractable infections. By targeting RNA in the iconic genetic flow from DNA to RNA …
Published: Jan. 27, 2026
If only antibodies could speak! The tales they could tell. Their victories and defeats against viruses and parasites could provide a template for better protection against disease and death. But …
Published: Nov. 23, 2025
Cryo-electron microscopy has been a boon for the study of membrane proteins. No crystallization needed, and the ability to visualize dynamic regions of the protein to boot. But one aspect …
Other news
Published: Sept. 30, 2025
For three years, tuberculosis (TB) was replaced by COVID-19 as the planet's deadliest infectious disease, but in 2023 TB's causative agent, mycobacterium tuberculosis, regained its rank as the world's most lethal microbe. The …
Published: July 30, 2025
Myxobacteria may be the most interesting microbes you've never heard of. That's what Emina Stojković realized when a summer student in her lab recounted vivid details from a recent microbiology class. The best-studied …
Published: June 26, 2025
SBGrid is pleased to announce that it has established a partnership with Instruct-ERIC, based in Oxford, UK. Instruct-ERIC is a pan-European distributed research infrastructure with a hub in Oxford, UK and over 30 …
Published: May 31, 2025
For a person intent on tiny forms, George Phillips's career has been closely tied to big initiatives that have added new categories of structures to the Protein Data Bank. He has pioneered dynamic …
Published: May 28, 2025
SBGrid is pleased to offer a one-day workshop - CryoEM in Industry: cutting edge, cost-efficient compute alternatives - on June 26, 2025 at Harvard Medical School in Boston. This workshop will focus on …
Published: March 28, 2025
From ancient Greece to modern day, people have often considered activities of the mind and muscle as fundamentally separate, even opposite, pursuits. Consider the contrasting stereotypes of a nerdy brainiac and a brawny …
Published: Dec. 12, 2024
In Woods Hole, Mass., the Atlantic breeze mixes with the hum of microscopes and the chatter of biologists. There, in a summer neurobiology course, Luke Chao first became enthralled by mitochondria “whizzing” around …
Published: Nov. 25, 2024
Jens Meiler was only 12 years old when he learned programming on a computer smuggled back to East Germany. It was 1985, a few years before the wall came down, and his father …
Published: Aug. 19, 2024
We have recently published a manuscript describing our Capsules technology used to deploy SBGrid and BioGrids software collections. Read more in Acta Cryst Section D, special 75th ICUR anniversary issue, available via open …
Published: April 28, 2024
For many people, the phrase “nutritional immunity” may evoke special foods or vitamin supplements believed to boost immunity, such as chicken soup, vitamin C, or tea with honey. But for Steven Damo at …
Published: March 8, 2024
ACADEMIC SOFTWARE INITIATIVE PRIVACY POLICY This policy governs privacy considerations around the Academic Software Initiative (ASI), based at Harvard Medical School, which includes software use through SBGrid, BioGrids, and all other initiatives that …
Published: Jan. 30, 2024
Bing Chen has spent his structural biology career seeking a better look at how HIV particles enter host cells to make people sick. In fact, his research group at Boston Children’s Hospital had …
Published: Jan. 11, 2024
Join us once a month on Thursdays at 4pm ET for Meharry/SBGrid Train the Trainer Office Hours, open to alums and future attendees of Train the Trainer Workshops. Office hours will include technical …