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"Chimera Outreach and Training" subproject for CGL annual report

activities Jun 1, 2006 - May 31, 2007

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July 17-18, 2006 Chimera poster and two ~1-hr demos of basic usage and

sequence/structure tools (total attendees ~18) at the Gordon Conference on Enzymes, Coenzymes, and Metabolic Pathways, July 16-21, University of New England, Biddeford, ME (Elaine, Eric)

Aug 14, 2006 "Introduction to Molecular Visualization" tutorial (12 people)

and poster "Tools for Integrated Sequence-Structure Analysis with UCSF Chimera" at Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference 2006, Aug 14-18, Stanford, CA (Conrad, Scooter)

Sept 7, 2006 30-min demo to ~80 participants at the 2006 Workshop on

Multiscale Biological Imaging, Data Mining & Informatics, Sept 7-8, Santa Barbara, CA (Tom Goddard)

Oct 19, 2006 "Fitting and Segmenting EM Maps with UCSF Chimera" 30-min

presentation to ~60 people at Bay Area CryoEM Meeting, Mission Bay, UCSF (Tom Goddard)

Nov 3, 2006 30-min graphics demo to group of ~16 from Santa Rosa Jr College

(Elaine)

Dec 3-5, 2006 poster at

Bioinformatics/Biophysics/CCB Retreat, Monterey Beach Resort, Monterey, CA (Scooter)

Dec 15, 2006 45-min demo at "Visualization Tools for Cellular Complexity"

conference, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, Germany. ~50 attendees. (Tom Goddard)

Feb 14, 2007 90-min Chimera demo (basic intro, ensembles, attributes,

sequence/structure, images/movies) for Gross group, UCSF (~10 people not counting the RBVI contingent) (Elaine)

Mar 3-7, 2007 NIH RR booth at Biophysical Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD

"Visualizing 3-D Electron Microscopy Data with UCSF Chimera" (Tom Goddard) "Introduction to UCSF Chimera" (Scooter)

Mar 14-17, 2007 Workshop on Single Particle Reconstruction and Visualization

(100 participants), University of Houston, TX Mar 15 "Visualization in Chimera" (Tom Ferrin) Mar 15 "Chimera Tutorial" (Tom Goddard)

May 4, 2007 45-minute demo (~40 people) and 2-hr hands-on tutorial

(~15 people) at the Bay Area CryoEM Meeting, UC Davis (Tom Goddard)

In addition, Tom Goddard has been participating in the CryoEM Standards Task Force on-line meetings (9/18/06 and 10/9/06), and all team members have been involved in discussions with the PDB staff regarding their data remediation project (Jan-Mar 2007).