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launching the SBGrid CryoEM Cloud Tournament, a global competition in which teams will process the same confidential, unpublished CryoEM dataset in an AWS cloud environment and compete to answer the biological question posed by the dataset as accurately and efficiently as possible.
The tournament is open broadly to structural biologists, CryoEM researchers, developers, faculty, trainees, and research staff worldwide. SBGrid membership is not required.
Participating teams will receive access to a preconfigured SBGrid cloud environment with CPU/GPU resources, storage, software, and technical support. Computational credits are provided by AWS.
Teams will be evaluated on:
- structural accuracy and quality
- biological interpretation
- computational cost and efficiency
- reproducibility and scientific usefulness
The Tournament Judging Committee includes:
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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 centres and facilities around Europe delivering high-end technologies and methods in structural biology.
Through Instruct-ERIC, SBGrid now has a foundation in Europe. Dr. Estrella Fernandez-Gimenez began her contract with SBGrid in March 2025. In collaboration with Instruct, Estrella combines her role of curating SBGrid's software collections with expanding the consortium in Europe, working through both Harvard University and CNB-CSIC in Madrid, Spain.
Estrella previously completed her PhD at CNB-CSIC, part of Instruct-ES, which put her in the ideal position to understand the power of software applications for structural biology research.
Estrella …
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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 innovative and resource-efficient IT architectures for CryoEM, structure prediction and drug discovery in pharmaceutical research.
Register here.
CryoEM in Industry: cutting edge, cost-efficient compute alternatives
June 26, 2025
Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115
Hosts:
Jason Key and Piotr Sliz
Opening Keynote
- 9:00am: Scientific Rigor in Structural Biology Research - Piotr Sliz, Ph.D., SBGrid PI
Session 1 - 9:30-11:15am: Is it feasible to conduct CryoEM/ET affordably with open source software?
Moderated by Jason Key
- 9:30am: 194 CryoEM Applications in the …
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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 access at https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798324004881
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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 rely on ASI software infrastructure (collectively the Academic Software Platform “ASP”).
This policy is incorporated by reference and made a part of the ASI License Agreement.
The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for the ASI through ASI websites: https://sbgrid.org/, https://data.sbgrid.org, https://biogrids.org, and in connection with the related ASP.
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