AutoDock & MGLTools: Workshop on Computer Aided Drug Design
Dear all,
two developers of the AutoDock suite and the MGLTools, Stefano Forli and
Michel Sanner, come to Europe in September 16-20th for a one week workshop
on computer aided drug discovery (CADD). This is not happening too frequently,
and this particular event truly has its roots in the packages Debian Med
prepared in 2008 and kept maintaining them for the past five years.
To me this is a bit of a tangible proof that our Free Software community
has long been about more than mere packaging. Well, those attending our
annual Sprints long know about this: we also bring individuals (and their
institutions) together, help with an exchange of ideas, contacts and
resources. I visited their home institute last year, very inspiring, and
I promise to do my best in directing as much as possible from this intensive
one week into our distribution for those who cannot join us. How? This is
why I have this long lasting interest in BOINC (boinc.berkeley.edu) and
Taverna (taverna.org.uk). But better and more packages is what Debian Med
sees first :)
I attach the announcement below. It would be very nice to have the one
or other additional individual from this list attending.
Cheers,
Steffen
Dear all,
We cordially invite you to the workshop
"AutoDock and MGLTools: computer-aided drug discovery "
September 16 - 20, 2013 at the University of Lübeck, Germany.
We are happy to announce that Stefano Forli and Michel Sanner, both
lead developers at the Molecular Graphics Lab at The Scripps Institute,
La Jolla, California, offer a week of their time to present overviews
and interna of AutoDock and the MGLtools for in silico drug screening
and protein visualisation. They will introduce participants into their
workflows comprising the whole process
* from ligand preparation
* via job control for high throughput docking
* to result evaluation.
The workshop offers lectures and exercises to support the participants in
gaining experience and improving their skills in the above described
tasks. Participants are encouraged to bring their own data for a
fruitful exchange among themselves and the developers.
For more details please visit
http://www.gradschool.uni-luebeck.de/autodock
Pleased forward this workshop announcement to potentially interested colleagues.
Hoping to welcome many of you in September in Lübeck,
with kind regards,
Steffen Möller, Department of Dermatology, University of Lübeck
Katja Dau, Graduate Scool for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Lübeck
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