Attendees

TomG, Zach, Eric, Elaine, Greg, TomF

March 23, 2023

Agenda

• Zach presenting
• NIAID new statement of work
• ProofPoint email filtering interaction with ChimeraX bug reports and mailing list.
• New hardware
• New hire requirements
• Review Action Items listed below

Discussion Notes

• West Coast Structural Biology workshop VR demo
  • TomG demonstrated VR looking at paxlovid drug resistance during a 2 hour poster session.
  • Many people tried Quest Pro standalone at the meeting.
  • Mike Schmid also presented VR of thylakoid membrane EM in chloroplasts and a ribozyme structure.
  • Greg Pintilie who wrote Segger and Alan Brilliant who wrote MolZoo were there
  • Bob Stroud gave workshop keynote and tried the VR

• Zach CZI grant progress
  • ​Slides.

• Chimera to ChimeraX session converter
  • Tom added volume model conversion.
  • Discussed several tools not converted: nucleotides, view dock, map coloring and zoning
  • Plan is to add more specialized tool converter code if users request it.

• Plato and Wynton operating system upgrade
  • In a month or two Plato and Wynton will be upgraded to Rocky 8.
  • After Rocky 8 upgrade it will be possible to update BeeGFS to new version.
  • New BeeGFS version will allow updating plato to Rocky 9.

Action Items

• Clean up VirtualHosts on our web servers -- Greg/Scooter
• Document new vpn setup on Linux -- Scooter
• Audit followup -- Scooter