= Attendees =

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

March 19, 2026

= Agenda =

* Scooter - work in progress
* Endowed viz position search
* Setup of server GPU nodes

= Discussion Notes =

* Pharm Chem faculty search
 - Faculty search for computational chemistry position (replace Matt Jacobson) considered 6 candidates but did not take any of them.
 - Search will be restarted in Fall.

* RBVI endowed professor search
 - Tom Ferrin had no news
 - Eric found the job adverstisement is posted: https://aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05877

* Measles vaccine requirements
 - UCSF requiring proof of measles immunity by April 30, 2026.
 - If vaccine record not available, TomG heard from OHS Communicable Disease Response Team that they want titer blood test to prove immunity.

* PDF web accessibility
 - Greg did not get a reply from UCSF compliance officer on archival PDFs.
 - Greg will send follow-up email.

* Scooter Cytoscape work
 - Next cytoscape release is 3.11
 - Updating java runtime 2017 to 2025.
 - REST interface broken in update.
 - OSGi allows java loading multiple versions of same library.
 - Cytoscape R24 well-reviewed but not funded.
 - Cytoscape Web is getting more effort than Desktop now.
 - Cytoscape web can handle 10K nodes, while Desktop 100K.
 - Working on design of Cytoscape web loadable apps.
 - SPOKE could use cytoscape web app interface.

* Scooter on Claude
 - UCSF IT wanted SPOKE database neo4j access for Claude interface.  Not safe since only 1 password.

* Lab Claude Team license
 - Scooter suggests lab getting Claude Team license, $25/developer per month, minimum 5 developers.
 - UCSF only offering OpenAI and ChatGPT, not as good at writing code.

* Saugat and Gestwicki lab collaboration
 - Scooter working on REST interface to chaperone binding data and equilibrium prediction.
 - Then will work on Cytoscape Web visualization interface.
 - Networks are small (31 proteins).

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