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 …
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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 …
Updated: Nov. 2, 2016
Willy Wriggers joins us again on November 1st, this time to give a tutorial on his software "Multiscale Computational Modeling and Visualization with Sculptor", a GUI-based extension of the Situs docking programs to …
Published: Oct. 27, 2016
Viruses like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and influenza have proteins on their surface that undergo dramatic conformational changes and allow the virus to fuse with a host-cell membrane and …
Updated: Oct. 13, 2016
Our next SBGrid-Schrödinger Users Group will be held on Tuesday, October 11th. Please join us to hear Ishita Aloni, PLDB Product Manager, give us a primer on Schrödinger's Protein Ligand Database, a knowledge …
Updated: Oct. 6, 2016
Please tune in to hear Willy Wriggers from biomachina.org in the first of two webinars. This first presentation will focus on his software tool "Combining Structures from Different Biophysical Origins with SITUS". SITUS …
Updated: Oct. 4, 2016
In recent work, Brian Fox and colleagues at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison characterized glycoside hydrolases, enzymes that digest cellulose and can be used to turn plants …
Updated: Sept. 16, 2016
After ten years of work developing and managing the PyMOLWiki, Jason Vertrees is turning over the helm to SBGrid. “They’re getting the whole site,” he says. To Vertrees, that site represents more than …
Updated: Sept. 15, 2016
Please join us for a webinar on September 13th to hear the latest on PyMOL. Schrodinger's Senior Applications Scientist Daniel Cappel will give a presentation on "Communicating your research results using PyMOL." Communicating …
Updated: Aug. 26, 2016
Heading a small lab of just three people at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, Oleg Tsodikov, the only structural biologist at the College, is juggling multiple drug discovery projects. “It’s a …
Updated: Aug. 16, 2016
Registration Closed. Contact events@sbgrid.org with questions We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2014 SBGrid/NE-CAT Computing School. Quo Vadis Structural Biology 2014? will focus on Data Processing in …