SBGrid Consortium - News and Events

Thursday, October 3rd at 11:00am EST -- please join us to hear Christian Olsen, Field Application Scientist at Biomatters, Inc, give a 30-minute webinar on Geneious R7: A bioinformatics platform for biologists.

Abstract: Geneious R7 is an innovative bioinformatic software platform that allows researchers the command of industry-leading algorithms and applications for their genomic & protein sequence analyses via a single robust desktop program. Scientists, researchers and students can easily query, manage, share, and analyze all of their sequence data intuitively using an email-like user interface. The R7 platform provides tools for next generation sequence analysis, molecular cloning, chromatogram …

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Thursday, November 7th at 11:00am EST -- please join us to hear Frank Delaglio, Marketing Manager of NMR Software at Agilent Technologies, give a 30-minute presentation on Spectral Processing Concepts for Biomolecular NMR.

Frank will review the concepts of spectral processing which are particularly relevant to biomolecular NMR. This includes graphical explanation of the workings and properties of the Fourier transform, and discussion of companion methods such as Linear Prediction. We also discuss the concepts of Non-Uniform Sampling, and describe approaches for reconstructing such data, including Iterative Soft Thresholding (IST).

Please note that on November 14th Frank will give …

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Thursday, November 14th at 11:00am EST -- please join us for part two of Frank Delaglio's presentation. Frank is Marketing Manager of NMR Software at Agilent Technologies and will give us an Introduction to NMR Spectral Processing with NMRPipe.

After an overview of the components and scope of the NMRPipe system, we review examples of specific workflows for going from raw data on the spectrometer to fully-processed spectra and peak tables.

For more information on NMRPipe, read the publication: Publication: F. Delaglio, S. Grzesiek, G. W. Vuister, G. Zhu, J. Pfeifer and A. Bax: NMRPipe: a multidimensional …

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If you use any EMBL-funded applications including ARP/wARP, HKL2MAP, ATSAS, ESCET or BEST, please read this posting so you can retain access to these applications, since we will be removing them from the default installations shortly.

EMBLEM, the licensing arm of the EMBL, has asked that all of their funded applications be individually licensed. To that end, we will be removing these applications from the default installation profiles with the October 15th software update.

To keep a software title in your installation, please visit the appropriate registration page linked below, follow the registration instructions, and then send an email to licensing@sbgrid.org letting us know the registered software title and your SBGrid installation name, which is found in the file /programs/share/sitename. Some of you may have …

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Thursday, September 12th at 11:00am EST -- please join us to hear Paul Emsley, from the Computational Crystallography Group at MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK, give a 30-minute presentation on Recent Developments in Model-Building Tools in Coot.

For more information on Coot, visit the website.


Webinar Details: We have been testing a new webinar hosting service called FUZE Meeting, which is compatible with Mac, Liuux, and Windows computers. We will use this new service for the Coot webinar and when first connecting you will be prompted to download the FUZE software. The initial connection is quite fast …

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