Project

Completed Date

Metric(s) Impacted

Activity Summary

Results

OpenSim Introductory Tutorial

07/05/09

2, 4

At International Society of Biomechanics Meeting

Attended by ~124 people

MD Workshop Series

06/26/09

2, 4

3-day workshop, each day focusing on different tool: OpenMM, MSM Builder, OpenMM Zephyr

Total of 25 people attended from 12 different institutions (Stanford, Pacific Northwest National Lab, UCSD, Zymeworks, National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico, Stockholm University, U.C. Berkeley, Washington University, Toxmet, Inc., RPI, Michigan State, UC Davis) - progress made on integration of OpenMM into AMBER and Zymeworks code

3D RNA Modeling workshop

06/19/09

2, 4

Presented NAST/C2A, RNABuilder, and OpenMM Zephyr

17 people attended from 6 different universities (Albert Einstein, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UCSB, Stanford, Uppsala)

Podcasts for Simbios seminars

06/04/09

6

Blanca implemented this and provided links to it on Stanford iTunes

TBD

Release of OpenMM Zephyr for Mac with updated documentation

06/08/09

2

Updated documentation with release of Zephyr 0.8. Beta version of Linux also posted.

Expand potential number of users/platforms. Window of opportunity missed for mass advertising, so no significant increase in downloads.

3D RNA Modeling Panel at RNA Society Annual Meeting

05/27/09

2, 6

Simbios organized a panel discussion with John SantaLucia, Sam Flores, Francois Major, Magdalena Jonikas, and Eric Westhof. Alain Laederach moderated.

75-100 people attended. Attracted several new members of Simtk.org (at least 4 mentioned this was how they first learned of the site) and potential new users of NAST and RNABuilder.

BCR/Simbios News story on OpenMM Zephyr

05/19/09

2, 6

Interviewed Christopher Bruns, KC Huang, Victor Pinks and student Tim, and Klaus Schulten for story

TBD

News RSS feed and Google calendar of events added to Simbios website

04/03/09

6

Added RSS feed and Google calendar of events to Simbios website. Google calendar of events linked to joint-NCBC calendar on the http://ncbcs.org website.

TBD

OpenSim Workshop

03/10/09

2, 4

At Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Conference. Target clinical users.

Attended by ~80 individuals, with over half being clinical (surgeons, physical therapists, etc.). Created new tutorial on swinging leg model (previous intro tutorial was on arm model).

OpenSim Gallery of Examples created

03/01/09

2

Templated created for examples. Need to populate.

TBD

BCR/Simbios News story on NAST

02/23/09

2, 6

Interviewed Magda Jonikas, Alain Laederach, Francois Major and Nikolay Dokholyan for story; Worked with Magda on improving documentation and usability of NAST

Generated some traffic to Simtk.org

OpenMM Workshop

02/13/09

2, 4

2-day workshop on using OpenMM and OpenMM Zephyr

Total of 36 attendees. Survey results to be summarized.

OpenSim Jamboree video

02/06/09

2

Short video of testimonials from the August OpenSim jamboree

Posted to the OpenSim website - unknown effect on enrollment in OpenSim jamborees

Press release for OpenMM

02/04/09

6

Worked with Stanford News Service and put out press release on OpenMM

Article picked up by at least 12 news websites; full story about OpenMM appears in Bioinform; 75% increase in number of unique visitors to simtk.org in February; nearly double the number of new simtk.org members in February, with several mentioning that they heard about simtk.org through OpenMM article

OpenSim Jamboree

01/16/09

2, 4

Event primarily organized by Scott Delp and the OpenSim team. News item posted about the event and survey administered afterwards.

15 attendees. 86.7% response rate to survey with 100% saying they would recommend the workshop and plan to use OpenSim in the future.

Survey on Biomedical Computation Review (BCR)

11/24/08

5, 6

14-question survey created. Email with link sent to ~2800 BCR subscribers. Notice placed on front cover of Fall 2008 issue of BCR. Respondents were entered in drawing for iPod. '

2% response rate provided limited information, but some good tidbits of information (e.g., specific stories of uses of BCR). Full report available: BCRSurveyNov2008.doc

Stanford Open Source (un)Conference: Prepared and gave presentation

11/14/08

6

40-minute Powerpoint presentation (now available via dissemination project documents on simtk.org and on slideshare.net - http://www.slideshare.net/event/stanford-open-source-unconference-08)

7 non-Simbios people attended talk. Irina Zak, one of the organizers who did not attend the talk, will be discussing Simtk.org/Simbios in a talk on 11/21/08 about sharing software & data in the sciences. Over 100 views of presentation on slideshare.net (as of 12/30/08)

Supercomputing 2008: Prepared demo and materials

11/10/08

3, 6

A 3-minute movie and flyers promoting OpenMM were created (available via dissemination project downloads on simtk.org)

No known new simtk.org members or BCR subscribers (as of 12/30/08)

BCATS: Ensured research represented at BCATS. Prepared materials for table and ad.

10/25/08

5, 6

6 out of 57 posters were Simbios-related; Mitul Saha (Simbios postdoc) presented one of the 10 student talks; Melanie Fox in collaboration with Jeff Reinbolt (Simbios postdoc) awarded "Best Poster Award." Industry table drew only a handful (< 10) individuals. Ad placed in BCATS program. '

1 individual signed up for BCR, no known new members for simtk.org or new collaboration leads (as of 12/30/08)