Macromolecular Modeling Blog ™

We are excited to announce our Stanford-Sweden summer modeling workshop, to be held in Uppsala 20-22 June. This workshop brings together scientists from the Bay Area, Sweden, and the wider world to discuss late-breaking research on simulation of macromolecules and complexes, spanning levels of resolution from coarse to fine. We will discuss structure prediction, dynamics, sampling, assembly, and aggregation from both a computational and experimental perspective. We will also give tutorials on simulation software, such as SimTK Simbody, DOCK_Blaster, and MMB/RNABuilder. Please post the attached flyer on your departmental email list, on physical bulletin boards, or otherwise circulate widely. Details on the program will be posted on our event page as they become available: http://xray.bmc.uu.se/flores/Stanford-Sweden-workshop-2011

Thanks, and hope you can make it!

Samuel Flores, Johan Åqvist, Erik Lindahl, and Michael Levitt

About the author: Samuel Flores (samuelfloresc AT gmail.com): I write easy to use multiresolution modeling software which helps predict how large biological molecules form and move. I and my collaborators have applied it to lots of problems, such as group I and group II intron structure, ribosome hybridization, and telomerase elongation. I’m also working on antibody design and other viral applications. Currently I’m extending my software, MMB, to handle huge complexes even more efficiently. A new feature called “physics where you want it” will let you apply a physics-based force field to a restricted region of your complex, e.g. an active site or interface, while treating the rest with coarser forces and kinematics. MMB will also start reading electron densities and other experimental data, expanding the types of constraints that can be used for modeling.

Rosetta Workshop

An Introductory Workshop to the Rosetta Protein Modeling Suite.

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Where: Grand Hotel San Michele, Centraro, Italy

When: 14-16/06/2010

Abstract submission deadline: 21/05/2010

This meeting, which corresponds to the biennial conference organized by the President of the International Society of Quantum Biology and Pharmacology, aims at bringing together specialists from around the world, and from all areas of biomolecular simulation to look at recent progress and to identify the most important challenges facing the field in the coming years in terms of methodology and practical applications.

For details: ISQBP 2010

This is the fifth and last post in the CAPRI series, summarizing the presentations of Xiaoqin Zou and Ora Schueler-Furman (Saving the best for last..), as provided by the speakers. I hope the CAPRI series was able to give a snapshot of the state of computational protein-protein docking and its community. I want to thank again to everyone that took part in the meeting and helped me with this series.

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As in previous years, we would like to invite representatives of the pharma and biotech industry to participate in RosettaCon 2010. Take part in the workshops, seminars, and have an opportunity to meet the Rosetta Commons researchers. Get to know Rosetta from the inside. RosettaCon will take place during August 3-6 at the beautiful Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat in Leavenworth, Washington, about 2.5 hours outside Seattle, in a dramatic mountain scenery – the only fitting environment for a scientific discussion really.

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This is the fourth post in the CAPRI series, summarizing the presentations of Paul Bates, Martin Zacharias, and Carlos Camacho, as provided by the speakers. More to appear in the continuation of the series.

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This is the third post in the CAPRI series, summarizing the presentations of Jeffrey Gray, Zhiping Weng, and Miriam Eisenstein, as provided by the speakers. More to appear in the continuation of the series.
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A meeting for everyone that liked this post (17 Protein disorder prediction servers):

Dates: 4-6 October, 2010

Venue: Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain.

Registration deadline: July 15, 2010.

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