Attendees

• Eric, TomG, Elaine, Greg, Scooter, Tristan

Agenda

• Action items
• Splash screen
• Next steps on R01 renewal
• ChimeraX release progress, early April release date.
• New hire job ​description
• SPOKE
• Funding
  • NTT Data - ​task order
  • R01 renewal, due July 5, 2021

Discussion

• SPOKE
  • Elaine and Scooter discussed slow progress on SPOKE objectives.
  • Scooter says they will be writing a SPOKE paper, about 5-7 pages.

• ChimeraX splash screen
  • User reported splash screen not reflective of user diversity
  • Most startup-times are around 2 seconds (ticket #4379), so splash screen not useful, unpleasant flash at startup.
  • Eric will remove splash screen and move team photo to About dialog.
  • Greg will look into showing install status for long Toolshed installs that occur at ChimeraX startup.

• R01 proposal
  • Discussed 5 innovation ideas emailed by TomG
  • Molecular simulations - want to connect this strongly to cryoEM needs.
  • UMAP visualization, dimension reduction
    • Tristan mentions cryoDRGN for multi-conformational EM might be a UMAP cryoEM application.
    • Tristan suggests umap for visualizing rotamers defined by 5 or more parameters (torsion angles?)
  • Large tiled image data - this is one new frontier of diverse data type handling.
  • Video docs, did not have time to discuss
  • Toolshed support for PyPi or Conda distributions by third-party developers.
    • This is meant to be complementary to current Toolshed
    • Conda is a standard PyMol installation method, also standalone binary available.
    • Scooter notes PyMol has plugin manager that can pull plugins for various sites. Nice UI.
  • Also need R01 proposal to continue porting high-impact Chimera tools.

Action Items

• Buy Mac Mini with Apple Silicon and KVM switch, TomF
• Figure out what additional plato directories need backup. Scooter
• Try to setup 2-factor authentication for vpn, Scooter
• Test new vpn on linux and document. Scooter