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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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This is the first post in a series, summarizing the CAPRI (Critical Assessment of PRediction of Interactions) 4th Evaluation meeting. In this post I’ll try to give a more personal perspective of the experiment results, the state and trends of computational protein-protein docking and the vibes behind the scenes. The next posts in the series will shortly summarize select talks from the meeting, kindly provided by the speakers.

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Another year went by, and there is still modeling work to be done. 2009 was a good year for the “Macromolecular Modeling Blog”. The number of subscribers almost quadrupled. We have several hundreds of twitter followers, and a twitter modelers list. And best of all we are still enjoying what we do.

What will happen in the blog in 2010?

* We’re working on a project covering the “state of the nation” in protein-protein docking, following the 4th CAPRI evaluation meeting, that should be posted as a series in the beginning of the year.
* Following good feedback on the “Molecular Modeling Jobs” post, we’re working on establishing (and updating) a Jobs section.
* Some new people will start writing for the Blog (Do YOU want to post at the Macromolecular Modeling Blog? contact us)
* You’ll read more reviews and literary digests.
* All that is interesting for modelers – what would you want to see here in 2010? tell us in the comments.

Good modeling “Karma”

It is a well known fact amongst modelers that the “true” energy function contains an extra energy term (which is by no means a two-body term) called the modeling “Karma”. Do you want to have good modeling Karma in 2010?

* Share this post with 5 friends and a structure will be published instead of that homology model you were working with.
* Share this post with 10 friends and your models will display sub-angstrom accuracy.
* Share this post with 15 friends and an experimental collaborator will call in with some good news.
* Share this post with 20 friends or more and we assure you that you’ll lend that R01 NIH grant in 2010.

Good Modeling Karma

We wish all our readers a very happy New Year and the best modeling Karma

When: September 21-23, 2009

Where: Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, CA

What: I’m writing to let you know about a conference taking place next month in San Diego, that has a new parallel conference called “Protein Engineering and Design”. I’m chairing the last day’s sessions, and there are a few Rosetta-based talks in them as well as some other interesting protein engineering. This is a conference aimed significantly at industry, but should be interesting to academics looking for connections between their work and the world of biotech/pharma.

More Info: Website / Brochure

By Jonathan Davis.

Jonathan Davis is a Principal Scientist in Protein Design at Adnexus, a Bristol-Myers Squibb R&D Company.