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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