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Quo Vadis 2016: Advanced Crystallography

Updated: June 7, 2016

SBGrid will host Quo Vadis 2016: Advanced Crystallography, a 2-day course focused on indexing, integration, and scaling of challenging datasets and initial model building in corresponding experimental maps. The workshop will be held …

User Tale: Keep on Moving

Updated: May 3, 2016

Say I’ve got two related motor proteins, says James Berger, professor of biophysics and biophysical chemistry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, both helicases. One, which is responsible for DNA replication, moves …

SBGrid Lunch Break with Daniel Rigden

Updated: April 27, 2016

On April 26th we'll hear a webinar presentation from Daniel Rigden of Liverpool University on AMPLE: a pipeline for unconventional Molecular Replacement. This application is available through the CCP4 installation. Join us April …

User Tale: Crystallography for Kids

Updated: April 22, 2016

Most people, armed with tartar-control toothpaste and a miniature scrub-brush, do battle with biofilms every morning. Biofilms form when bacteria attach to a surface, like a tooth, and form a colony encased in …

SBGrid-Schrödinger Working Group

Updated: April 19, 2016

Our next SBGrid-Schrödinger Users Group will be held on Tuesday, May 3rd. Woody Sherman, Vice President of Applications Science, will join us again to discuss Diverse applications of free energy calculations in drug …

SBGrid Lunch Break with Gunnar Schröder

Updated: April 6, 2016

Please join us on May 10th at 12pm EST to hear Gunnar Schröder's presentation on DireX - Cross-validated Real-space Refinement to Density Map. Dr. Schröder is Assistant Professor at the University of Düsseldorf. …

SBGrid is on Twitter

Updated: April 6, 2016

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SBGrid-Schrödinger Working Group - Protein Preparation

Updated: April 4, 2016

Our next SBGrid-Schrödinger Users Group will be held on Tuesday, March 29th. Jas Bhachoo, Head of Education Initiatives for Applications Science from Schrödinger UK, will give a presentation on the The Importance of …

SBGrid Lunch Break with Raj Pannu

Updated: March 14, 2016

Please join us on March 8th at 12:00pm EST to hear Raj Pannu, Assistant Professor at Leiden University in The Netherlands, speak on Automated macromolecular structure solution from SAD and MR-SAD experiments with …

User Tale: Big Questions, Big Answers

Updated: Feb. 24, 2016

Jennifer Doudna has reached celebrity status as one the inventors of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology. The tools, the equivalent of a toolkit for performing precision surgery on the DNA of any organism, …

User Tale: Not a Structural Biologist

Updated: Feb. 22, 2016

Enrico Di Cera studies proteins involved in blood coagulation. He has spent a significant portion of his career working out the function and structure of thrombin, and has recently solved the first structure …

SBGrid Lunch Break with Roberto Tejero

Updated: Feb. 12, 2016

Roberto Tejero from the University of Valencia, Spain will join us on January 26th at 12:00pm EST to give a primer on PDBStat, a coordinate and protein NMR restraint converter. PDBStat Tuesday, January …

SBGrid Lunch Break with James Foadi

Updated: Feb. 12, 2016

Please join us on February 9th at 12:00pm EST to hear James Foadi, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Diamond Synchrotron in Oxfordshire, give a primer on Assembling data from multiple crystals with BLEND. …

SBGrid-Schrodinger Working Group - Water

Updated: Jan. 17, 2016

Our 3rd SBGrid-Schrodinger Users Group will be held on Tuesday, January 12th. Join us then to hear Woody Sherman, Vice President of Applications Science, will give a 30-minute presentation on ""The role of …

Special Course: Analysis and Visualization of Large Datasets with Python

Updated: Jan. 17, 2016

The SBGrid Consortium and Piotr Sliz will host a special course on January 13th on Analysis and Visualization of Large Datasets with Python, led by former group member Ian Stokes-Rees, who currently works …

User Tale: Divide and Conquer

Updated: Dec. 15, 2015

Kevin Corbett got his start washing dishes. The job, at TechLab Inc., a small biotech near Virginia Tech, led to research investigating the life cycle of a parasitic amoeba at the University of …

SBGrid Special Seminar with Filipe Maia

Updated: Dec. 7, 2015

SBGrid Special Seminar - November 30th at 12:00pm EST. Join us to hear Filipe Maia from Uppsala University speak on “Single particle diffraction imaging at XFELs and the birth of femtosecond nano-crystallography” Single …

SBGrid Lunch Break with Graeme Winter

Updated: Nov. 18, 2015

Graeme Winter from Diamond Light Source will give a presentation on DIALS (Diffraction Integration for Advanced Light Sources) on Novermber 17th. Join us for a 12:00 lunch break. DIALS Tuesday, November 17th at …

SBGrid-Schrodinger Working Group - Docking

Updated: Nov. 11, 2015

Schrodinger Users, please join us on Tuesday, November 10th for our second Schrodinger Working Group. Woody Sherman, Vice President of Applications Science, will give a 30-minute presentation on "Docking Tools within the Schrodinger …

Demo of Laptop Installer for BioGrids

Updated: Oct. 27, 2015

SBGrid has been working to develop an easy-to-use Laptop Installer to install BioGrids and SBGrid software. Mick Timony will demo a version of the installer for Harvard Medical School's BioGrids users at Thursday …