[Dissemination-aoi] Dissemination Update - Week of April 13, 2009

[Joy P. Ku]

Dissemination Update 

Week of April 13, 2009 

 

 

OpenMM 

* Pursued collaborations with target MD groups

   -- Sent email on Thursday to Jay Ponder about collaboration and sending
someone to the workshop;  no reply yet 

   -- Ross Walker of AMBER sent some details about OpenMM and AMBER
integration requirements;  more discussion to follow;  

                goal for workshop would be GB integration

   -- Updated agenda (now being held on Wednesday, June 24th with 2
optional days for working on integration)

 

* To do this week:

   -- Set up registration for workshop and announce

   -- Identify and assign remaining tasks for workshop

 

MSMBuilder 

* New date for workshop - switched from Wed (6/24) to Th (6/25)

 

* To do this week:

       -- Review Greg's draft documentation

       -- Test install and running of program on Mac and Linux platforms
on my own

       -- Set up registration for workshop and announce

       -- Identify and set deadlines for remaining tasks for workshop


            

          

RNA Workshop 

* Workshop announcement sent out to general public;  currently 13
registered 

                (2 from Patrice Koehl's lab at UC Davis;  1 from UC Santa
Barbara - Luc Jaeger's lab; rest from Stanford)

* Met individually with Sam and Magda to get updates on software and do
initial planning for workshop tutorials 

                (details to follow in separate email) 

 

* To be done this week: 

      --Continue testing RNABuilder 

      --Continue testing NAST/OpenMM-Python version 

      --Identify and assign remaining tasks for workshop

      --Draft framework for tutorial document 

      --Draft framework for README files for Sam & Magda to use

      --Continue planning for RNA Society workshop, as needed

  

Zephyr

* Revised workshop agenda;  to be held on Fri (6/26)

    

* To be done this week: 

      --Update documentation for Zephyr

      --Testing and release of Zephyr Mac version

      --Identify and assign remaining tasks for workshop

 

Testimonial letters

* On-going discussion with Russ and Alain about which users to target

* No response yet from Charley Taylor for SimVascular users or Jung-Chi
Liao for myosin DBP researchers to contact

 

* To be done this week:

      --Follow up with requests

 

BCR

* To be done this week:

    -- Identify SimbiosNews column topic

 

 

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Joy P. Ku

Director of Dissemination

Simbios, Stanford University

 

(W) 650.736.8434 

(F) 650.723.7461

Email:  joyku at stanford.edu

Website:  http://simbios.stanford.edu

 

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