Attendees

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

Agenda

• ChimeraX 1.3 release goals, review tickets.
• New desktop computer hardware.
• Who will work on each of Phenix, NIAID, CZI, R01 grant goals?
• Review Action Items list below

Discussion Notes

• ChimeraX 1.3 release
  • 10 active tickets milestoned for 1.3
  • 7 related to Blast protein gui or backend. Worked on prioritizing these tickets
  • Ticket to allow updating chimerax old release page.
    • New javascript to show just release for user's platform necessitates new management of release list.
    • Greg says he thinks it will be pretty easy.
  • Ticket to fix devel install command handling PyPi dependencies.
    • Might instead add an explicit install command for PyPi dependencies if devel install hard to fix.
  • Goal is to have enough of these 10 tickets closed by next Thurs (Sep 30) to make a branch

• New desktop hardware
  • TomG complaining about using singularity containers for alphafold on wynton cluster has been challenging and low productivity.
    • Needed to use home ubuntu machine to make containers.
    • Wynton alphafold databases corrupted.
  • GPU prices expected to remain high through most of 2022
  • Next step is to price out new computer systems with specific vendors.

Action Items

• Create tutorial for putting model on web page - TomG
• Figure out what additional plato directories need backup - Scooter
• Set up 2-factor authentication for hal2 vpn - Scooter
• Document new vpn setup on Linux - Scooter