Updated: May 9, 2017
Sit down in front of a newly installed copy of CCP4 today, and you will find approximately 250 computer programs for solving protein structures. The list of programs includes several with catchy names, …
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Published: April 28, 2017
James Holton first got interested in structural biology in the late 1980s at a biochemistry summer camp as a high school sophomore. He was flipping through the textbooks and ran into the protein …
Updated: April 11, 2017
Tune in on April 11th to hear about the latest enhancements in Movie Making for cryoEM using ChimeraX. Tom Goddard, Programmer/Analyst at the UCSF Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics, will join us …
Updated: March 31, 2017
In 2011, Kay Diederichs welcomed longtime friend and colleague Andrew Karplus into his lab at the University of Konstanz in Germany. The two had met in the 1980s at the University of Freiburg …
Updated: March 30, 2017
SBGrid is pleased to host an Electron Microscopy Data Processing Workshop. This 1-day course will include an introduction to and hands-on tutorial for RELION 2.0 for single particle analysis. The workshop will be …
Updated: March 30, 2017
Join us on March 23rd to learn more about RAPD from Northeastern Collaborative Access Team (NE-CAT) Assistant Director Frank Murphy. RAPD is new software for automated MX data analysis. RAPD - New software …
Updated: March 2, 2017
Join us February 28th to hear a presentation from Peter Eastman on OpenMM, a tookit for molecular simulation. Dr. Eastman is Senior Software Engineer in Vijay Pande's lab at Stanford University. OpenMM Tuesday, …
Updated: March 1, 2017
The molecular graphics software called Chimera, written and supported by a team of scientists in Tom Ferrin’s lab at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been cited over 7000 times and …
Updated: March 1, 2017
Physicist Klaus Schulten once imagined becoming a dancer, relying on nothing but his own mind and body to perform. “But I was not a good dancer,” he says. “So my next thing was …
Updated: March 1, 2017
In 1987, when Geoff Barton was a graduate student learning computational structural biology at the University of London, just 6000 protein sequences were known, but their numbers were rising exponentially, and it was …
Published: Feb. 27, 2017
Soon after starting his lab at Vanderbilt University in 2004, Brandt Eichman attended a DNA repair meeting in Bermuda. When the Keynote speaker mentioned two new glycosylases, enzymes that recognize and repair damaged …
Updated: Feb. 23, 2017
We are happy to announce that effective Sept 12, 2016, the SBGrid Consortium began managing and maintaining PyMOLWiki. Many thanks to Jason Vertrees, who spent over 10 years creating, building, and maintaining this …
Updated: Jan. 30, 2017
Tune in January 17th, in a follow up to last week's webinar on cctbx.xfel and DIALS, to learn how to Get the most out of your XFEL data with IOTA and PRIME. Mona …
Published: Jan. 31, 2017
A few years ago, at a New Year’s Eve party in her neighborhood, Phoebe Rice mentioned, as you do, that she needed some methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains. A neighbor responded: “Have you …
Updated: Jan. 12, 2017
Please join us January 10th, in the first of two xfel webinars, to learn about Processing serial crystallographic data using cctbx.xfel and DIALS. Aaron Brewster, Project Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, will …
Updated: Dec. 20, 2016
Katya Heldwein’s first investigations of herpesviruses focused on how they get into host cells. In the process, she became interested in how these viruses get back out again. Herpesviruses replicate their genomes in …
Updated: Dec. 19, 2016
Nicholas Sauter began working on DIALS (Diffraction Integration for Advanced Light Sources) in 2011 because he and his colleagues recognized that the experimental methods of X-ray crystallography were changing, and changing fast. To …
Updated: Dec. 8, 2016
Please join us December 6th to hear Abhishek Singharoy, from Klaus Schulten's lab at the Beckman Institute and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, present on xMDFF, a new molecular dynamics flexible fitting-based …
Published: Nov. 29, 2016
In early 2016, Jochen Zimmer published a series of structural snapshots of molecular machinery during different stages of assembly and secretion of cellulose across the cell membrane. The series of images reveals a …
Updated: Nov. 15, 2016
SBGrid and NE-CAT are pleased to host a Phenix Workshop on experimental phasing, automated model building, and real space refinement. This 1.5-day course, with cases from X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy, will be …