Published: Jan. 27, 2018
If the rhythm of bacterial genes being transcribed was set to music, it might sound like the asymmetric beat of Bartok, a favorite composer of structural biologist and pianist Seth Darst. In bacteria, …
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Updated: Nov. 28, 2017
To find an analogy for his studies of how genes are turned on and off, Daniel Panne turns to the prehistoric drawings he viewed on a recent family vacation. The famous Lascaux Cave …
Updated: Nov. 20, 2017
Join us on November 14th to hear about the latest updates to EMAN2.2 from Baylor College of Medicine Professor, Steven Ludtke. - EMAN2.2 for Single Particle Analysis and In-situ Structural Biology Tuesday, November …
Published: Oct. 23, 2017
Like many of James Fraser’s scientific interests, his lab motto, “Beer and Tacos,” arises from baseball statistics. A sports writer invoked the beer-and-tacos analogy to describe the false dichotomy between statistical analysis—such as …
Updated: Sept. 21, 2017
Join us on September 19th to hear from SBGrid's technical lead Jason Key. Jason will introduce some of the newest tools available to SBGrid users, including our new user environment and installation tools. …
Updated: Aug. 21, 2017
Join us on July 25th to hear from Jesse Hopkins, Postdoctoral Researcher at Cornell University will talk about Analyzing Biological Small Angle X-ray Scattering Data Using RAW. Analyzing Biological Small Angle X-ray Scattering …
Updated: Aug. 3, 2017
Celia Schiffer | University of Massachusetts Medical School Approximately 200 million people are infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) worldwide. While novel drugs, such as protease inhibitors, are effective against the virus, resistance …
Updated: June 29, 2017
Leemor Joshua-Tor got her first introduction to chemistry in 7th grade. The Weizmann Institute of Science had created an introductory chemistry class for the local middle school in Rehovot, Israel, where Joshua-Tor was …
Updated: June 28, 2017
A year ago, Bridget Carragher and Clint Potter’s group broke the so-called three-angstrom barrier for electron microscopy (EM). Prior to their work, so many structures had been solved using EM at 3.4 or …
Updated: May 31, 2017
In his lab at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, John K. Buolamwini designs drugs. He’s currently focused on reformulating drugs called nucleoside analog drugs, which have been …
Updated: May 9, 2017
Back in the mid-1970s, the British government funded several collaborative computing projects. Among them (14 in all) was Collaborative Computing Project 4, known by structural biologists as CCP4. "The idea was that computers …
Updated: May 9, 2017
Sit down in front of a newly installed copy of CCP4 today, and you will find approximately 250 computer programs for solving protein structures. The list of programs includes several with catchy names, …
Published: April 28, 2017
James Holton first got interested in structural biology in the late 1980s at a biochemistry summer camp as a high school sophomore. He was flipping through the textbooks and ran into the protein …
Updated: April 11, 2017
Tune in on April 11th to hear about the latest enhancements in Movie Making for cryoEM using ChimeraX. Tom Goddard, Programmer/Analyst at the UCSF Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics, will join us …
Updated: March 31, 2017
In 2011, Kay Diederichs welcomed longtime friend and colleague Andrew Karplus into his lab at the University of Konstanz in Germany. The two had met in the 1980s at the University of Freiburg …
Updated: March 30, 2017
Join us on March 23rd to learn more about RAPD from Northeastern Collaborative Access Team (NE-CAT) Assistant Director Frank Murphy. RAPD is new software for automated MX data analysis. RAPD - New software …
Updated: March 30, 2017
SBGrid is pleased to host an Electron Microscopy Data Processing Workshop. This 1-day course will include an introduction to and hands-on tutorial for RELION 2.0 for single particle analysis. The workshop will be …
Updated: March 2, 2017
Join us February 28th to hear a presentation from Peter Eastman on OpenMM, a tookit for molecular simulation. Dr. Eastman is Senior Software Engineer in Vijay Pande's lab at Stanford University. OpenMM Tuesday, …
Updated: March 1, 2017
The molecular graphics software called Chimera, written and supported by a team of scientists in Tom Ferrin’s lab at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been cited over 7000 times and …
Updated: March 1, 2017
Physicist Klaus Schulten once imagined becoming a dancer, relying on nothing but his own mind and body to perform. “But I was not a good dancer,” he says. “So my next thing was …