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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p>Increase your expertise with OpenMM at CECAM’s Macromolecular Simulation Software Workshop. OpenMM developer Peter Eastman and OpenMM power user John Chodera will help run the sub-workshop on “Developing interoperable and portable molecular simulation software libraries,” which will teach attendees how to develop code with OpenMM and the free energy calculations library Plumed.<o:p></o:p></p><p>-------------------------<span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Macromolecular Simulation Software Workshop</span></b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b>Dates:</b> October 12, 2015 to October 25, 2015<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b>Location:</b> CECAM-DE-JUELICH, Juelich, Germany <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b>Application deadline: </b>July 27, 2015. Each sub-workshop is limited to 30 participants<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b>Registration and more information:</b> <a href="http://www.cecam.org/workshop-1214.html" target="_blank">http://www.cecam.org/workshop-1214.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p><b>Description</b><o:p></o:p></p><p>Biomolecular simulation continues to grow in popularity and scope of application. It is no longer the preserve of a few specialist groups but is widespread - part of the ‘toolkit’ used by researchers in a wide variety of fields, often closely integrated with other experimental research techniques. As the use of biomolecular simulation grows, a corresponding boom in (decentralised) software development is taking place. <o:p></o:p></p><p>This workshop is formatted as six sequential workshops, each 2 days long, that enable participants to learn about many different aspects of biomolecular simulation software: <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Software development and engineering<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Simulation data analysis<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Setting up simulations<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Development of software libraries<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>High-performance distributed computing tools<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Advanced sampling and long timescale molecular dynamics. <o:p></o:p></p><p>Participants will be able to attend all sub-workshops or just a subset of them. In the process, they will learn about many biomolecular simulation software that are available, including: <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>OpenMM (<a href="https://simtk.org/home/openmm" target="_blank">https://simtk.org/home/openmm</a>),<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>MMTK (<a href="http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/MMTK/" target="_blank">http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/MMTK/</a>),<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>MDAnalysis (<a href="https://code.google.com/p/mdanalysis/" target="_blank">https://code.google.com/p/mdanalysis/</a>) ,<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>MDTraj (<a href="http://mdtraj.org/latest/" target="_blank">http://mdtraj.org/latest/</a>),<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>SIRE (<a href="http://siremol.org/Sire/Home.html" target="_blank">http://siremol.org/Sire/Home.html</a>),<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Bookshelf (<a href="http://sbcb.bioch.ox.ac.uk/bookshelf/" target="_blank">http://sbcb.bioch.ox.ac.uk/bookshelf/</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p>as well as more general-purpose Python-based tools that have clear applicability to biosimulation – e.g. RADICAL-Cybertools (<a href="http://radical-cybertools.github.com/" target="_blank">http://radical-cybertools.github.com</a>).<o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:black'>To register or learn more about the workshop, visit </span><a href="http://www.cecam.org/workshop-1214.html" target="_blank">http://www.cecam.org/workshop-1214.html</a>.<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='color:black'>Costs <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><span style='color:black'>There is no registration fee for the workshop, but accommodation, meals and all other travel costs must be covered by participants. Some funding may be provided by NSF to enable US early career researchers to attend the workshop.</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>---</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>Joy P. Ku, PhD</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>Director, <a href="http://simbios.stanford.edu/"><span style='color:blue'>Simbios</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>Director of Communications & Training, <a href="http://opensim.stanford.edu/"><span style='color:blue'>NCSRR</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>Director of Communications & Engagement, <a href="http://mobilize.stanford.edu/"><span style='color:blue'>Mobilize Center</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>Stanford University</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>(w) 650.736.8434, (f) 650.723.7461</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#595959'>Email: <a href="mailto:joyku@stanford.edu"><span style='color:blue'>joyku@stanford.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>