Attendees

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

February 15, 2024

Agenda

• Eric presenting, [phenix-2-14-24 work in progress]

Discussion Notes

• Endowed chair
  • Tom Ferrin and Scooter talked to Pharm Chem dept leadership team last tuesday about creating endowed chair for visualization. Strong support.
  • Asked for possible candidates.
  • Can make flyer for VizBi in march.
  • Janet Iwasa might be interested.

• ChimeraX licensing
  • Elaine mentions academic user asking if license using for paid consulting.
  • Tom Ferrin will look at email.

• School of Pharmacy RBVI connection
  • Tom Ferrin talked to Kathy Giacomini about RBVI alphafold efforts. She was enthusiastic.
  • Kathy suggests talking to Tanja Kortemme.
  • Tom Ferrin will ask Tanja if she wants to meet to discuss RBVI and Tanja's lab structure prediction efforts.
  • Kathy also mentioned possibility to give alphafold talk at school retreat Thursday June 13 on campus.

• Eric, work in progress
  • Phenix fit loops and emplace local gui improvements.
  • Finding phenix install location on windows needs some work.
  • Many ChimeraX improvements: model next/prev, altlocs, combine, AmberTools23, garbage collection crash, SPICE idatm, join non-peptide bond.

• Mailman
  • Greg looked at cgl-staff mailman group, was hung so didn't deliver email.
  • New mailman version is available but requires Python 3.9 while our server has Python 3.8.

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