Sealy Center for Structural Biology/UTMB Workshop on CryoEM Data Processing
May 6-9 2019
Sessions will alternate between theory talks and tutorial sessions
- Day 1 - Tomography/Subtomogram Averaging (EMAN2.2 tutorial)
- Day 2 - Single Particle Reconstruction (EMAN2.2 tutorial)
- Day 3 - Single Particle Reconstruction (SPHIRE tutorial)
- Day 4 - Model Building (Chimera/Coot/PHENIX)
Laptop Requirements
- Participants in the tutorial sessions will need to use their own laptop computers. While the tutorials are scaled back versions of 'real' problems, a reasonably powerful laptop computer is still required.
- Due to the large number of participants, is not a good idea to rely on remote desktop sharing to your home institution. This may not work, or may work but have inadequate performance.
- Recommended laptop specifications:
- 4 cores, 2.0+ ghz processor (4 cores, not threads)
- 16 GB RAM
- 50 - 75 GB of free disk space
- high resolution capable display (1080P or similar recommended)
- Mac/Linux preferred.
SPARX/SPHIRE does not officially support Windows. If you use the Win10 embedded Ubuntu strategy for installing EMAN2/SPHIRE, it MAY be possible to make this work, but it is an unsupported configuration.
What if my laptop doesn't meet these specifications?
- With 2 cores jobs will run slower, so you may get a bit behind in the demos, but can probably still participate
- Most tutorials will probably be ok with 8 GB of RAM, but you may have some interactivity problems, and it is possible a few very memory intensive tasks may not work right
- While you will not need 75 GB of storage for any single demo, if you have less space than this you may, for example, have to move
Required Pre-workshop Software
Please do not install software/data now. Wait until after April 24th
- You MUST download/install/test all data/software before the workshop if you wish to participate.
- If you have problems you must ask for help in advance.
- There will be ~100 participants, and no time is scheduled for software installation, so if the software doesn't work before you arrive, you will spend a lot of time just watching. We will not have the resources to help on-site.
- Final information will be posted here By April 24th