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Scientific Web Developer Position

The SBGrid Consortium operating at Harvard Medical School in Boston has an immediate opening for an enthusiastic scientific web developer. The role involves developing, updating and maintaining high-throughput structural biology work-flows in an academic environment. Existing, published SBGrid web applications have processed hundreds of structural biology problems utilizing hundreds of thousands of CPU hours through the Open Science Grid. The position includes developing new work-flows and applications in collaboration with academic researchers, as well as ensuring that the existing applications continue to serve SBGrid members. The role involves working in a team based environment.

Skills:

  • Fluency in python
  • Familiarity with django, MySQL, HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • Understanding of massively parallel computational grids
  • Experience with administrating web servers and related services
  • An interest in Bioinformatics
  • PhD ...

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Published February 16, 2012

6th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Supramolecular Assemblies by Hybrid Methods

Dear Colleagues:

We are delighted to announce that the 6th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Supramolecular Assemblies by Hybrid Methods will be held from March 14-18, 2012 in Lake Tahoe, California at the Granlibakken Conference Center. We invite you to visit our Symposium website to register for the Symposium ($375 before January 31st), submit an abstract, view the current program, and to also publicize the attached meeting poster. Abstracts are due on February 28th and on March 5th, abstract-selected talks will be announced, though late abstracts will be accepted through March 11th.

This Symposium builds on a series of very successful previous meetings on the same theme from 2004-2010. As in previous years, the overall goal is to illustrate the power of combining state of the ...

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Published January 24, 2012

SBGrid Science on the Edge with Seth Darst

Please join us for our inagural SBGrid Science on the Edge Webinar on Monday, Feb 13th at 4:00pm EST. Seth Darst will discuss his new Cell publication Structural Basis for Promoter -10 Element Recognition by the Bacterial RNA Polymerase σ Subunit.

Seth Darst, Ph.D
Jack Fishman Professor
The Rockefeller University

Structural Basis for Promoter -10 Element Recognition
by the Bacterial RNA Polymerase σ Subunit

Cell. 2011 Dec 9;147(6):1257-69.,


Monday, February 13th at 4:00pm EST


Webinar Details: Join the event
You may wish to join the event early; the webinar is limited to 100 participants.
Event password: structure

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Published January 10, 2012

SBGrid Morning Tea with Tim Stevens

Monday, February 27th at 10:00am EST. Join us for a 30-minute Webinar on CcpNmr SpecView and ChemBuild: the first next-generation CCPN software, presented by Tim Stevens, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Please note the change in our usual Tea Break time since Tim will present from the UK
CcpNmr SpecView and ChemBuild:
the first next-generation CCPN software

Software information available on the CCPN website.
Webinar Details: Join the event
Event password: structure
Call-in Toll Number (US/Canada): +1-408-600-3600; Access code: 667 471 973
Abstract:The Collaborative Computing Project for NMR was started in the year 2000 to create data standards and improve the interoperability of software for biomolecular NMR. The primary means of achieving ...

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Published January 8, 2012