[RASMB] Special UltraScan AccessGrid seminar on Thu, May 7th

Borries Demeler demeler at biochem.uthscsa.edu
Thu Apr 30 06:51:22 PDT 2009


Dear Colleagues,

I would like to announce the next UltraScan AccessGrid seminar which will
take place on Thursday, May 7th, from 11 am - 12 pm Central Time in the
UTHSCSA UltraScan AccessGrid venue (England time: 5 pm, Central Europe:
6 pm).

This session will be presented by Christian Meesters, University of Mainz.
The seminar will be of special interest to those of you who work with
small angle X-ray and neutron scattering, and have an interest in 
structure modeling in the solution phase.

Title: 
sas-rigid -- rigid body modeling on small angle scattering data and
prospective issues for Ultrascan

Abstract:
Rigid body modeling of protein complexes based on small angle scattering
(SAS) data is a niche in structural biology with rising importance. The
sas_rigid software package tries to combine several strategies to
trace conformational changes followed by SAS, e. g. induced by ligand
binding. This presentation will give an introduction to the usage of the
software as well as an outlook on the implementation into UltraScan and
the benefits of using a supercomputer in this particular case.

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PLEASE NOTE:

The UltraScan seminar is broadcast over the AccessGrid. In order to
participate you will need to have AccessGrid 3.0.2 or higher installed
on your computer. If you are not on a multicast network (most likely
you will not have this capability), you need to connect via unicast,
and you will need to use a unicast/multicast bridge to communicate
(Tools:Bridges in the Venueclient menu). You can use the following
MC-bridges to connect to our venueserver: Argonne, NCSA and the UTHSCSA
bridge. Participants are strongly encouraged to test their connections
one or two days in advance with Jeremy Mann (jeremy at biochem.uthscsa.edu)

Additional information and links to free AccessGrid software can be
found at:

http://www.accessgrid.uthscsa.edu

Instructions for installing it on Windows or Linux is available at:

http://accessgrid.uthscsa.edu/wiki/doku.php

The seminar will take place in the UltraScan room in the 3.1 venue server
of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The
venue address for the UTHSCSA Lobby is:

https://ag1.v19.uthscsa.edu:9000/Venues/default (AccessGrid 3.x)

There will be a 1 hour testing time - 10-11 am central time.  Please
contact Jeremy Mann at jeremy at biochem.uthscsa.edu or 210-567-2672 for
assistance. I recommend to test out your AccessGrid connection one or
two days in advance of the meeting if you have never set it up before.




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