SBGrid Consortium - News and Events

Software Update for December

Published January 28 2010

This month we have new versions of Coot, PHENIX, CCPNMR, NMR relax, and BLAST in this update, as well as a few new packages including BioPython, PROFphd and SAM.

It has been a solid month since our last update, and we have quite a few new and updated packages including updates to Coot, PHENIX nightly, Jalview, GROMACS, EMAN2 and em2em. The new applications include ALINE, WASP, PSIPRED and MMULT.

NESBA event

Published January 5 2010

Please visit www.nesba.net to register for this special evening to honor Michael Rossmann.
The abstract for the talk is below, we have limited seating capacity and are currently about half-full, please register soon if you plan to attend.

Myoglobin and haemoglobin: The first three dimensional protein structures.
A personal first hand account will be given of the events leading to the determination of the sperm whale myoglobin and horse oxy-haemoglobin structures in 1959. The results provided the first verification of Darwinâ€™s theory of evolution at a molecular level. They also indicated how haemoglobin bound oxygen in lungs and released oxygen in tissue. The techniques developed for these investigations formed the foundation of modern structural biology, resulting in more than 50,000 near atomic resolution structures that are …

Warren L. Delano Memorial Fund

Published November 25 2009

By now most of you have heard the sad news of the passing of Warren Delano, the developer of the well-known molecular visualization software PyMOL. His friends and family have started a fund with the intent of endowing an annual award for excellence in computational biosciences. To find out more or make a donation, please visit the Warren L. Delano Memorial Fund page.

New Members

Published November 25 2009

We are pleased to welcome four new member labs this month. The Drennan Lab and Schwartz Lab at MIT. The Forman-Kay Lab and Sharpe Lab at the University of Toronto.