News

Natalia Beglova joins SBGrid

Updated: March 27, 2014

Natalia Beglova, a former instructor in the Stephen Blacklow laboratory received an independent faculty position at the Division of Hemostasis and Thrombosis, BIDMC. She will be using NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography combined …

RTOOLS installed

Updated: March 27, 2014

rTools - a set of PYMOL extensions has been installed (see PYMOL description in "Software"). In case of any problems, please report them to curator@sbgrid.org

SBGrid Tea Break with Homay Valafar

Updated: March 27, 2014

Thursday, December 5th at 11:00am EST -- please join our webinar to hear Homay Valafar, Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina, discuss Structure Validation of Proteins using REDCAT. Structure Validation of …

March Software Updates

Updated: March 27, 2014

The following software upgrades will be available for all branches after the Friday evening update.Profit, as described by the author, is a "program for performing least squares fits of two protein structures. It …

Stay Tuned for Upcoming Webinars

Updated: March 27, 2014

Webinars are currently being planned to feature Phaser, CCP4, and SHARP/autoSHARP. More details will follow soon.

Warren L. Delano Memorial Fund

Updated: March 27, 2014

By now most of you have heard the sad news of the passing of Warren Delano, the developer of the well-known molecular visualization software PyMOL. His friends and family have started a fund …

New Member: Peersen Lab at Colorado State

Updated: March 27, 2014

We are pleased to welcome the lab of Olve Peersen at Colorado State University as our newest member.

Software Hints

Updated: March 27, 2014

Some of the software we provide can be tricky to use. That’s why we’re here – to help simplify ease-of-use of this software. In the Software Hints section of our newsletters, we’ll provide …

Software Update for February

Updated: March 27, 2014

There was a very small unannounced update in January to provide new XDS binaries, which expired over the Christmas holidays and a new version of CCP4mg, which purported to fix the issue with …

Wide Search Molecular Replacement Portal

Updated: March 27, 2014

The Wide Search Molecular Replacement Portal is available to SBGrid affiliates. Please visit the NEBioGrid portal to submit a WSMR proposal.

[SBGrid] Software Update

Updated: March 27, 2014

We will be performing a software update starting at approximately 5 pm Friday, Feb 17, 2006. As a reminder, should you encounter problems with the software distribution (or environment setup) the best way …

January Software Updates

Updated: March 27, 2014

All listed applications will be available on Linux and OSX computers (both Intel and PPC) after the Friday evening update.Pymol will be updated to Release Candidate 6 (RC6) and the APBS plugin installation …

SBGrid Afternoon Tea with Jeff Headd

Updated: March 27, 2014

Monday, December 12th at 4:00pm. Join us for a 30-minute Webinar to hear Jeff Headd, postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, present on Phenix: Use of knowledge-based restraints in phenix.refine to improve …

FREALIGN - Fourier REconstruction and ALIGNment, version 6.11 has been installed

Updated: March 27, 2014

This is installation only for Linux platform.

MacIntel Software Additions

Updated: March 27, 2014

The following software, previously available in other branches, were added to the macintel distribution: Bobscript, Delphi, dino, gromacs, megapov, nmrview, O, phaser, povray, raster3d, spdbv, stamp, somore, surfnet, vmd, spider, spiderMP, and shelx …

April Grid News

Updated: March 27, 2014

SBGrid has become an official Open Science Grid (OSG) Virtual Organization (VO).  Pending completion of our internal grid infrastructure, we should begin testing OSG connectivity next month.

ungrasp utility added

Updated: March 27, 2014

We have compiled a small utility to convert GRASP surfaces to the RASTER3D format. The utility will only work under IRIX OS.

SBGrid Supports over 200 Affiliates

Updated: March 27, 2014

SBGrid now supports over 200 structural biology labs around the world. Your feedback and word of mouth are essential to our success. Thank you to all of our affiliates for helping the consortium …

Case Study: SBGrid XServe G5 Integration

Updated: March 27, 2014

We worked with the Gaudet and Jeruzalmi labs at Harvard University over the past few weeks to develop an SBGrid-compatible setup by centrally-utilizing their newly acquired 4-node (8-CPU) XServe G5 cluster. The solution …

SBGrid@NE-CAT

Updated: March 27, 2014

NE-CAT APS members will be soon able to access the SBGrid installation on all beamline computers. Please visit the NE-CAT website for more info about this beamline.