US National Committee for Crystallography

Exploring Structural Database Use in Crystallography: Workshop Series

The U.S. National Committee for Crystallography (USNC/Cr) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is providing an online workshop series for students and researchers on the use, development, and maintenance of crystallographic and structural databases. Encompassing macromolecular, small molecule, and powder diffraction information, the series will include 11 modules each meeting for one or two days:

Opening Keynote - John Helliwell - The Exemplary Crystallography and Structural Databases

ICSD - Searching and using the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (2 days)

ICDD - The International Center for Diffraction Data Powder Diffraction File™: Database Concepts And Applications (2 days)

PDB - Introducing the Protein Data Bank: 3D Macromolecular Structure Data Deposition, Validation, Biocuration, Archiving, and Delivery for  Researchers, Educators, and Students Worldwide (2 days)

EMDB - Introducing the Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) -- a public repository for electron cryo-microscopy volume maps and tomograms of macromolecular complexes and subcellular structures

SBGrid - Using the SBGrid Software Installer, AppCiter, and SBGrid Data Bank on PCs, HPC clusters and AWS cloud

COD - Searching and getting data from the Crystallography Open Database (COD)

IRRMC - Access to experimental data is crucial for scientific reproducibility (Integrated Resource for Reproducibility in Macromolecular Crystallography)

COD - Depositing and managing data in the Crystallography Open Database (COD)

CSD - Working with the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD): searching, analyzing and depositing data using Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) tools (2 days)

COD - Under the hood: Building your own scientific database

Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty members and researchers in any of the crystallographic, diffraction, and imaging sciences affiliated with the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) are encouraged to register and participate in the training sessions that interest them.

Registration for this online series is free. To register, please visit:

https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/exploring-structural-database-use-in-crystallography-a-usnccr-workshop-series 

The details about each session can be found by clicking the event pages along with a registration link allows one to register for any combination of the sessions.

Undergraduate students with appropriate research experience will be considered.

The workshop is sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

For more information please contact Ana Ferreras, Telephone: (202) 334-1697 Email: aferreras@nas.edu