CCP4 Annual developer’s meeting

University of York 2nd-3rd March 2004

 

Aims of Meeting

The overall objective of the meeting should be seen in the context of the management meeting plan for CCP4, see Annex 1. It should provide a closer interaction between the Executive and the staff employed on CCP4 contracts, and provide a forum for a general discussion between all CCP4 staff and associated developers. The intention is to extract a set of goals and action points and to address any conflicts and weaknesses:

·Within each of the topics

·Between groups of topics, e.g. Molecular graphics, coordinate handling and refinement

·At a global level, LIMS, Automation and the core groups activities, especially libraries

·Speakers must summarise what all their team is doing and not just discuss their own work. This may be derived from the Collaborators section of the Pro Formas submitted to WG1 (which will be sent with this agenda). In short, make sure talks are outward-looking rather than personal research talks.

Overall the meeting aims to inform all participants of what the others are doing, leading to improved contacts between groups, improved team working  and avoidance of duplication of effort.

 

The meeting will cover several areas (see Agenda):

·Review of progress, and plans for next 12 months based on the January 2004 Pro Formas submitted to WG1. To restate, the presentations on Tuesday will be divided into the areas of application and the team leader or representative must provide an overview of the whole teams activities, not just their own. At least 10 minutes must be let for discussion. Given the time restraints, the talks can only be overviews, without great detail.

·At the end of Tuesday, Johan Turkenburg and Tadeusz Skarzynski will lead a discussion on shortcomings of the present CCP4 in terms of software modules and other needs.

·On Wednesday we will concentrate on the more general aspects of the suite and how modules link together, namely the core libraries, Automation and LIMS.

 

Action points: Clear Action Points and associated objectives will be identified and recorded as a central output of the meeting. These will address detailed aims within each area on Tuesday, as well as more global and ambitious ones on Wednesday. This annual meeting of all CCP4 developers provides the ideal forum for defining a vision of the future for the suite.

 

Those participating are listed in Annex II. Annex III contains the instructions already circulated by Maeri for hotel booking. The location of the meeting itself (i.e. rooms) will follow soon.

Agenda

 

Time

Topic

Speakers

Collaborators

Tuesday 2nd March, St William’s College, beside York Minster

11:00

Executive Meeting

N/a

 

12:00

Welcome and Introduction

Keith Wilson

 

12:10

Crystallisation

Julie Wilson [pdf]

JW, JF

12:30

Data Collection and Reduction

Harry Powell [pdf]

AL, HP, GB, PRE

13:00

Lunch in St. Williams college

 

 

14:00

Phasing (experimental) incl H.A. location

Eleanor Dodson, Yao, Keith

EJD, Yao,

14:30

Phasing (molecular replacement)

Randy Read

Alexei Vagin

RR, AV, AB, AM

15:00

Refinement

Garib Murshudov

GM, FL, A Lebedev,

DA, RS

15:30

Molecular Graphics

Liz Potterton

Paul Emsley [pdf]

LP, SM, PE, MN, JG

16:00

Tea

 

 

16:30

Coordinates and Structure Analysis

Eugene Krissinel [pdf]

EK, GM, AV, LP, MW, PP

17:00

Weaknesses and Needs for Algorithms

Johan Turkenburg

Tadeusz Skarzynski

Gideon Davies

Everyone!

17:45

LIMS and Data Models

Alun Ashton [pdf]

Kim Henrick

AWA, CM, KH, SG,

18:30

Close

 

 

19:30

Dinner, Bedern Hall

 

 

 

Wednesday 3rd March. Bedern Hall, centre of York. Same place as dinner.

9:00

Building the Model

Kevin Cowtan

KC, PE

9:30

Automation (CCP4, DNA, Shelx), including CCP4i

Paul Emsley (CHART) [pdf]

Charles Ballard

Graeme Winter [pdf]

PE, CB, LP, GW,MGWT

Two posts open.

10:45

Core CCP4 Activities (incl. Licence)

Martyn Winn [pdf]

PE, AWA, PB, CB

11:45

Release 6.0 of CCP4: “What and When”

Martyn Winn

Everyone

12:00

Conferences Workshops and P.R.

CCP4 Manual

Peter Briggs [pdf]

Keith Wilson

Everyone

12:15

Summary

Martin Noble

 

12:45

Lunch atrium

 

 

 

Annex I: Annual Management Meeting Plan 2004

 

Month

Meeting

 

1

March

Annual Executive Review Meeting. The executive meets for 1-2 days with all CCP4 developers for an annual review of progress and plans. This meeting may move to a January/February date in subsequent years. 2days

2

April

Internal DL/York independently. Two meetings, one DL, one York with CCP4 staff, KSW and other interested developers. Developers from other sites will be invited as appropriate. 2 hours with limited topics, specified agenda.

3

May

Internal DL/York independently. As Month 2.

4

June

Quarterly CCP4 Developers Meeting. All developers plus KSW meet. Within one day.

5

July

Internal DL/York independently. As Month 2.

6

August

No meeting

7

September

Mid-year Executive Review. This will be as Month 1 or 2 after further discussion.

8

October

Internal DL/York independently. As Month 2.

9

November

Internal DL/York independently. As Month 2.

10

December

Quarterly CCP4 Developers Meeting. All developers plus KSW meet. Within one day.

11

January

Internal DL/York independently. As Month 2.

12

February

Internal DL/York independently. As Month 2.

Annex II: Participants

 

Name

Location

Funding

CCP4 Project

 

 

 

 

Anderson, David

York

EC BIOXHIT

 

Ashton, Alun

DL

CCP4 Grant

Core programmer

Baker, Anne

Univ. Cambridge

CCP4 Industry

Phaser

Ballard, Charles

DL

CCP4 Industry

Core programmer

Battye, Geoff

MRC Cambridge

CCP4 Industry

MOSFLM GUI

Bond, Charlie

Dundee

Dundee

 

Briggs, Peter

DL

CCP4 Industry

Core programmer

Cohen, Serge

NKI Amsterdam

NKI

 

Cowtan, Kevin

York

Royal Society Fellowship

 

Davies, Gideon

York

Invited

 

Dodson, Eleanor

York

Wellcome

 

Dohnalek, Jan

York

Invited

 

Emsley, Paul

York

BBSRC postdoc.

 

Evans, Phil

LMB Cambridge

MRC Staff

 

Foadi, James

York

CCP4 Industry

Crystal recognition

Griffiths, Susy

York

SPINE

LIMS

Gruber, Jan

Univ. Oxford

CCP4 Industry

Molecular graphics

Henrick, Kim

EBI

EBI Staff

 

Keegan, Ronan

DL

e-htpx grant

 

Krissinel, Eugene

EBI

CCP4 Grant

Coordinates etc.

Lebedev, Andrey

York

BBSRC postdoc.

 

Long, Fei

York

CCP4 Grant/ BIOXHIT

REFMAC

McCoy, Airlie

U Cambridge

Cambridge funds

 

McNicholas, Stuart

York

CCP4 Industry

Molecular graphics

Morris, Chris

DL

CCP4 Industry

LIMS

Murshudov, Garib

York

Wellcome Fellowship

 

Naismith, James

St. Andrews

Univ. Staff

 

Nave, Colin

DL

CCLRC Staff

 

Noble,  Martin

Univ. Oxford

Univ. Staff

 

Patel, Pryank

DL

EC postdoc.

 

Potterton, Liz

York

CCP4 Industry

Molecular graphics

Powell, Harry

LMB Cambridge

CCP4 Grant

MOSFLM

Read, Randy

Univ. Cambridge

Univ. Staff

 

Skarzynski, Tadeusz

GSK

Staff

 

Steiner, Roberto

York

Wellcome Trust postdoc

 

Turkenburg, Johan

York

Invited

 

Turkenburg, Maria

York

CCP4 Industry

Automation

Vagin, Alexei

York

BBSRC postdoc.

 

Wilson, Julie

York

Royal Society Fellowship

 

Wilson, Keith

York

Univ. Staff

 

Winn, Martyn

DL

CCP4 Grant

Core programmer

Winter, Graeme

DL

e-htpx

 

Yao Jia-Xing

York

BBSRC postdoc

 

Young, Paul

York

e-htpx

 

Zhou, Dan

York

CCP4 Industry

Twinning

Unable to attend

Name

Location

Funding

CCP4 Project

Howard Eales, Maeri

DL

CCP4 Grant

Administration

Leslie, Andrew

LMB Cambridge

MRC Staff

 

Walsh, Martin

ESRF

MRC staff

 

 

Annex III: Hotels

 

The CCP4 developers meeting will take place on March 2nd and 3rd at the University of York. 

 

As different people will have different accommodation needs, we are asking that everyone book their own rooms (see information below on two suggested venues), pay for them with their own credit cards (keep all receipts) and then submit a claim form for reimbursement to CCP4 (Maeri Howard-Eales will have them available at the meeting).

 

The 2 hotels we suggest are:

 

Black Bull Hotel,

Hull Road, York,

YO10 3LF. 

Tel 01904 411856 Fax 01904 430667

 

Travelodge,

Piccadilly,

York,

http://www.york-hotels-deals.net/travelodge_york_central.html

tel 01904 638587

 

The Black Bull is near the University and has parking.  The Travelodge is in the city centre and has no parking on site but public parking nearby. Prices are ca. £50 per night Black Bull, ca. £65 per night Travelodge.

 

If you have any questions, please contact:

 

Maeri Howard-Eales

CCP4

Daresbury Laboratory

SBL 5

Daresbury, Warrington WA4 4AD UK

phone 00 44 (0) 1925 603929

fax 00 44 (0) 1925 603825

email: m.e.howard-eales@dl.ac.uk