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Capsules Technology

Published August 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 access at https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798324004881

Privacy Policy - Academic Software Initative

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 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.

INFORMATION GATHERING AND USE

Member Information
The information ASI collects about its members can be divided into two categories: Consortium Participation Information and Software Access and Use information.

The Consortium Participation Information (CPI) that ASI collects is of the type …

Meharry/SBGrid Train the Trainer Office Hours

Published January 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 staff from SBGrid and structural biologists working in the field.

SBGrid webinars are hosted with partial support from the NIH R25 Continuing Education for Structural Biology Mentors #GM151273, in collaboration with Co-PI Jamaine Davis of Meharry Medical College.

Thursdays at 4pm ET:

January 18th
February 15th
March 21st
April 18th
May 16th
June 20th

NE-CAT Practical Crystallography Course

Published March 23 2023

NE-CAT is pleased to offer our Practical Crystallography Course, June 21-23, 2023 at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. The course will be a three day workshop hosted in conjunction with SBGrid. We are currently planning for three full days with a break for lunch and potentially an afternoon before the start of the workshop to make sure that computers are properly setup. Lunch and coffee breaks will be provided. The workshop remains free, but students are responsible for their own lodging and transportation. All students will need access to SBGrid during the workshop in order to participate. Temporary access to SBGrid can be provided. The workshop is limited to 20 participants. Priority will be given to those with data and/or problematic datasets, but curated datasets are also …

Animation Workshop with Janet Iwasa

Published June 7 2022

Animation Workshop
August 1-5, 2022
Boston MA

Instructor: Prof. Janet Iwasa

Organizers:
Prof. Janet Iwasa, The Animation Lab, University of Utah
Prof. Piotr Sliz, SBGrid, Harvard Medical School

SBGrid and Janet Iwasa of The Animation Lab are pleased to host a 5-day intensive, in-person workshop from August 1-5, 2022 that will cover 3D molecular animation. Students will learn how to export molecular models from UCSF Chimera, work together on a common project to create an animated scene in the 3D animation software Autodesk Maya, and use Adobe After Effects to composite the final animation, adding narration and text. Dr. Iwasa will reserve part of each day for students to ask questions about their specific planned animation with a goal that they will return to the laboratory …