Welcome to July's newsletter, bringing you the latest updates from the home of structural science. This month brings you exciting news about our collaborative project BioChemGRAPH, the chance to register for our virtual West Coast UGM, the Crystal Conversations meeting series, our ICSD/CSD survey and more.
The CCDC team
BioChemGRAPH will improve data synergy to facilitate drug development
The collaborative project between PDBe, ChEMBL and CCDC will see the integration of key structural, functional, and biochemical data across both small molecules and macromolecules.
This will allow researchers to quickly access relevant information from trusted but disparate datasets, advancing work in fields such as target validation, drug development, drug repurposing and cross-reactivity.
The BioChemGRAPH project will create an easily accessible web platform to bring together datasets which are instrumental in many areas of research. The three databases are seen as leaders in their respective fields; known and trusted for their high standards in data management. This means the final BioChemGRAPH platform will have a solid foundation, with quality at its core. Read more
Virtual West Coast UGM - August 13th
Our user group meetings continue apace in the virtual world. We have an exciting agenda promoting collaboration across academia and industry and we expect over 100 attendees. The event app - available after registration - includes updates to the agenda, social networking, documents to download and surveys to collect your feedback.
If you haven't yet registered, click below to sign up in 2 minutes!
Confirmed Keynote speakers:
Katherine Kantardjieff, Provost and VP Academic Affairs, California State University, Monterey Bay
Rommie Amaro, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry & Director, National Biomedical Computation Resource, University of California, San Diego.
Presentation tracks:
Innovation in Science Education(digital opportunities in crystallography and beyond)
Knowledge sharing and collaboration in Pharma R&D
All users of CCDC software are welcome to join and registration is now open.
Meet Carmen Nitsche, General Manager for CCDC Inc.
Carmen Nitsche is the General Manager for CCDC, Inc, the U.S. subsidiary of the CCDC. She moved from part time to full time GM this month. A great opportunity to tell us more about her career and experience at CCDC. Read more
Setting up GOLD on cloud resources
Learn more about how GOLD can be run using cloud resources for ultra-large docking jobs, and watch the video from Vera Prytkova. Read more
2020.1.1 CSD Release
The 2020.1.1 release is now available with some improvements to the CSD software, which includes a better performance of our 3D visualisers (including Mercury, Hermes, Mogul and CSD-CrossMiner). Read more
What's Up Webinar - Watch on demand!
In July's What's up webinar we learnt what goes on "behind the scenes" of each CSD data release, and found out more about the new CSD Pipeline Pilot component collection. If you didn't have a chance to attend watch now on demand.
Crystal Conversations for solid form chemists, crystal engineers and physicists
These informal virtual meetings are a chance to share ideas, swap tips and mingle with others in the field. Jointly organised by the British Association for Crystal Growth and CCDC.
Our first meeting is next week - register now.
Thursday 6th August, 2 - 4 BST
Learn: Molecular modelling techniques - 3 researchers present their work and welcome questions.
Grow: BACG's Crystals in Art competition, and a social quiz
We are running a joint survey with FIZ Karlsruhe about searching across the CSD and the ICSD. Please take 5 minute to complete the surveys and help us evolve our partnership to meet your requirements.
We will also be hosting a joint webinar with the FIZ Karlsruhe on the 27th August to highlight our joint services, reviews the survey results and explore how we could expand our collaboration in the future. To find out more and to register click here.
CCDC Home Learning: New Identikit of Common Substances!
CCDC Home Learning launched a new exciting activity. This time you will need some detective skills to find out seven crystal structures hiding in plain sight in our houses.
Gather the family and let the adventure start!
As a reward for completing each activity in theCCDC Home Learningsection, there will be a collectable virtual badge.
Chat with us and share your pictures from each activity on social media, using the hashtag #CCDCHomeLearning and the tag @ccdc.cambridge on Facebook, @ccdc_cambridge on Twitter, and @ccdc_cambridge on Instagram.
We have updated our privacy policy
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As you may have seen communicated on our website we recently updated our privacy policy. This was to clarify our use of automated decision making, and website analytics.