Attendees

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

October 12, 2023

Agenda

• Tom Ferrin presenting, practice talk for Pharm Chem faculty meeting
• Phenix workshop at University of Kansas at Lawrence, Nov 9-10, should Zach go and give ChimeraX sessions?

Discussion Notes

• Lab retirement plan
  • Tom Ferrin talked to Kathy Giacomini director of School of Pharmacy and Michelle Arkins chain of Pharm Chem department about establishing endowed faculty position for visualization using Chimera/ChimeraX license revenue.
  • Hired faculty could continue work of RBVI when Tom Ferrin and Scooter retire.

• Pharm Chem faculty lunch practice talk
  • Tom Ferrin presented CGL lab history starting in 1970s.
  • Tack Kuntz, Peter Kollman, and Bob Langridge founded computational chemistry at UCSF.
  • Scooter talked about current RBVI projects including ChimeraX VR and Cytoscape network visualization.

• ChimeraX PyPi library
  • Final report for CZI grant due.
  • Want to release chimerax pypi library to complete CZI work.
  • Need license text for source code files.
  • Scooter and Tom Ferrin drafted initial license text for dual LGPL and ChimeraX licensing.

Action Items