Attendees

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

Agenda

• Reconcile level-of-effort on each grant/contract so NIH does not hold up Phenix R24 award.
• R01 renewal - should we include web viewer in next R01?
• Automated download of ChimeraX for NIH 3D request by Philip MacMenamin
• ChimeraX release progress, early April release date.
• New hire job ​description
• SPOKE
• Funding
  • NTT Data - ​task order
  • R01 renewal, due July 5, 2021
• Action items

Discussion

• Level-of-effort on grants
  • To avoid holding up Paul Adams Phenix 24 grant, must address NIH concerns about UCSF team level of effort being beyond 100%.
  • Need Eric, Elaine and TomG level of effort on all grants include Phenix R24 to be no more than 100%.
  • NIH reports level of effort at 15 - 17 calendar months, needs to be 12 or less.
  • NTT Data contract is main problem. Level of effort is incorrect for contract.
  • Funding for future new hire is not accounted for.
  • Tom Ferrin will arrange meeting with JoAnne, Tara, Scooter, to straighten out effort reporting.

• Web viewer in R01 proposal
  • Tom Ferrin suggests we not include it based on TomG analysis.
  • Scooter is concerned about reviewers who think desktop/laptop platform is old and want to see web browser interfaces.
  • Could put in R01 a figure showing ChimeraX GLTF presented in 3D web viewer.
  • Could make a tutorial and/or feature highlight showing how to export a ChimeraX scene and put on web page or upload to SketchFab or other 3D model sharing site.

• New hire
  • Human resources has job description
  • We should announce job on Twitter and chimerax user list.
  • Tristan recommends asking Todd Hamish if interested

• ChimeraX 1.2 release plan
  • Code freeze the past week
  • Supposed to branch today but Greg on vacation
  • In one week plan to put 1.2 version on download page which is release candidate.
  • End of April announce officlal 1.2 release if no critical bugs found

Action Items

• Study if molstar web viewer could be fed ChimeraX scene for R01 proposal, Eric
• Study if good web viewer for collada / gltf available for R01 proposal, TomG
• Summarize Phenix R24 ChimeraX aims to avoid conflict with R01 proposal, TomG
• 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