[Dissemination-aoi] Dissemination Update - Week of April 6, 2009
Joy P. Ku
joyku at stanford.edu
Fri Apr 10 22:18:07 PDT 2009
Dissemination Update
Week of April 6, 2009
OpenMM
* Pursued collaborations with target MD groups
-- Teleconference set up with Desmond developers for 4/21
-- Ross Walker of AMBER sounds committed, probably coming to June workshop; more details next week
* To do next week:
-- Revise workshop agenda to include an AMBER track
OpenSim
* Added content to gallery of examples (previously empty)
MSMBuilder
* Greg has easy Linux install process working
* To do next week:
-- Review Greg's draft documentation
-- Test install and running of program on Mac and Linux platforms on my own
RNA Workshop
* RNA Society meeting panel – panelists and moderator confirmed. Information forwarded to meeting organizer
* Workshop registration open; Announcement sent to targeted individuals
* Initial testing of RNABuilder and NAST/OpenMM-Python - very preliminary but have run into issues that need to be resolved with developers before further testing
* To be done next week:
--Continue testing RNABuilder
--Continue testing NAST/OpenMM-Python version
--Continue planning for RNA Society workshop, as needed
--Send out workshop announcement to general public
Zephyr
* Drafted agenda for one-day scientist-focused workshop
* Conducted user feedback session (with 3 users) - setting up own PDB file with Zephyr can be time-consuming!
* To be done next week:
--Revise workshop agenda and figure out how it fits in with OpenMM developer workshop
Testimonial letters
* Drafted letter for SAFA users - none sent yet; on-going discussion with Russ and Alain about which users to target
* Sent requests to Charley Taylor for SimVascular users and to Jung-Chi Liao for myosin DBP researchers to contact
* To be done next week:
--Follow up with requests
Metrics
* March numbers posted. Numbers continue to steadily improve
--# publications acknowledging grant = 113
--# Simtk.org members: > 4700
BCR
* Reviewed ideas for NewsBytes for next issue
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