= Attendees =

Zach, Tom Goddard, Greg, Eric, Elaine, Tom Ferrin

October 3, 2024

= Agenda =

* Elaine journal club.  [https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/jclub/tomodrgn.html#/ slides]

= Discussion Notes =

* Emergency supplies
  - Lab emergency supplies (water, food, ...) have been replaced.
  - Old supplies, 10 packs dated 2018 are available for anyone to take.

* Wynton downtime
  - Wynton will be down up to 5 days Oct 14-18.
  - Network access storage on plato nodes will be setup during downtime.
  - Scratch SSDs in current plato nodes will be erased.  Get your data off of them.
  - Greg is looking at how to make web sites show a downtime message.  Tom Ferrin says Conrad tried years ago and it was more difficult than expected.
  - CGL email will be forwarded during downtime.

* AI
  - UCSF is licensing 500 seats for ChatGPT "edu".
  - It will be incorporated into current UCSF AI service Versa front-end.

* Journal club, TomoDRGN
  - [https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/jclub/tomodrgn.html#/ slides]
  - Main way tomoDRGN does better than cryoDRGN on subtomogram particles may be that it knows all tilt slices for one particle belong to the same structure.
  - Also tomoDRGN corrects for degraded signal in high-tilt angle slices.


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