wiki:2021-11-4

Attendees

  • Zach, Eric, Elaine, Greg, TomG, Scooter, TomF

Agenda

  • R01 grant next steps
  • ChimeraX 1.3 release progress.
  • Create ChimeraX 1.4 roadmap
  • New desktop computer hardware.
  • Review Action Items list below

Discussion Notes

  • R01 grant next steps
    • Still determining whether we can hire Hamish without assured R01 funding.
    • Some R01s with our percentile rank funded (5 of 18 last year, https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302?ic=NIGMS&fy=2020).
    • Council decides funding on Feb 5, 2022.
    • Program managers before council try to fund a breadth of proposals, called "programmatic policy decisions" that advise Council decision.
    • Resubmission, earliest date would be March 5, change proposal to address reviewer concerns, add one page to answer criticisms. Goes back to same study section. About 1/4 to 1/3 of study section members would change.
    • Can alternatively submit new proposal to new study section. But we don't know of any more appropriate section.
    • Have to wait for review summary statement to decide next step.
  • NIAID contract
    • monthly report due
    • R01 summary statement may influence what next NIAID contract will include (VR, AlphaFold, cryoEM tools...)
    • Inquire again at today's meeting about discussion cryoEM resource needs.
  • ChimeraX 1.3 release progress
    • Aiming for end of November release
    • Greg working on two tickets, don't remind of updates, pip install command
    • Greg improved download page so releases all come from JSON file.
  • Web site
    • Scooter would like replace SVN management of our web pages with git.
    • Just replace svn with git in a minimal way.
    • Reworking web site should be postponed -- too big a problem given our other priorities.
    • Tom Ferrin got rbvi.org domain that will redirect to ucsf site. Greg will get certificate for rbvi.org from Let's Encrypt to get https working.
    • vr.ucsf.edu certificate expires Nov 10, Greg will update.
    • Greg says Let's Encrypt certificates expire quickly. Scooter says get certificate from someone else for 2 year or 5 year expiration.
  • Chimera
    • Would be good to move Chimera source from SVN to GIT
    • Scooter asks when should we drop support for Chimera bug reports?
    • Chimera Trac database is having frequent problems too. Need to rebuild database once per week.
    • Some problems caused by large attachments in email2trac.
    • TomG will change the Chimera download page pitch for ChimeraX to be stronger wording.
    • Chimera downloads outnumber ChimeraX currently 2 to 1.
  • New hardware
    • HP workstation shipping November 23 for Linux machine learning
    • Can order Elaine new Mac laptop soon.
  • Lab email
    • We will not be able to host our own email in the future.
    • We may need to change our long-standing cgl.ucsf.edu email addresses.
    • Greg says UCSF IT may take over the domain and keep the current addresses.
    • Investigating using gsuite
    • msg.ucsf.edu mx records point to google mail, using gsuite.
    • Tom Ferrin has registered rbvi.org that can be used email with gsuite
    • Scooter says Gladstone uses gsuite
    • Greg can talk to Matt Harrington about msg.ucsf.edu email handling.

Action Items

  • Strengthen wording to use ChimeraX on Chimera download page. TomG
  • Get certificate for https at rbvi.org. Greg
  • Renew certificate for https on vr.ucsf.edu. Greg
  • Set up 2-factor authentication for hal2 vpn - (waiting to see if VPN will even be allowed by campus IT) - Scooter
  • Document new vpn setup on Linux - Scooter
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