CCK-11

TL;DR: CCK-11, the 11th of our series of meetings for computational chemists, cheminformaticians, and molecular modelers, is on Thursday, February 1st, 2018, at 5 pm in the Seminar Room, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU. Free CCK-11 tickets are available.

 

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Please join us for our next “Comp Chem Kitchen”, CCK-11, at 5-6 pm on Thursday, February 1st, 2018, in the Seminar Room, Department of Biochemistry, South Parks Road, Oxford. We are  very pleased to announce Dr Georgia McGaughey, Senior Director, Modeling & Informatics, from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, USA, will be speaking:

  • Dr Georgia McGaughey (Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, USA): “Shaping Belsomra: Application of Experimental and Theoretical Methods for Driving Synthetic Designs“.
  • Dr Ole Juul Andersen (Carlsberg Fellow, SBCB, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford):Using GPUs with Molecular Dynamics codes: optimizing usage from a user perspective“.

Lightning Talks

Get in touch if you would like to give a 5 minute talk at a future CCK on your latest research or give a quick demo your latest programming project, or even to nominate someone (students, postdocs, professionals, PIs, Emeritus Professors). The talks usually resemble one of the following styles:

  • an overview of computational chemistry in your research;
  • a (live!) demonstration of some software that you are developing or using; or
  • a summary of a computational chemistry paper, method, programming language, or tool that you’ve seen recently.

Refreshments will be provided, including beer.

We would like to thank the University of Oxford MPLS Network and Interdisciplinary Fund for making CCK possible.

About CCK

Comp Chem Kitchen is a regular forum and seminar series to hear about and discuss computational methods for tackling problems in chemistry, biochemistry and drug discovery. It focuses principally on cheminformatics, computational chemistry, and molecular modelling, and overlaps with neighboring areas such as materials properties and bioinformatics.

We’re keen to encourage people involved in coding and methods development (i.e. hackers, in the original untarnished sense of the word) to join us. Our hope is that we will share best practices, even code snippets and software tools, and avoid re-inventing wheels.

In addition to local researchers, we invite speakers from industry and non-profits from time to time, and occasionally organize software demos and tutorials.

If you’re interested in giving a talk, here are some possible topics:

  • Software development (e.g.: Python, C, C++, CUDA, shell, Matlab);
  • Optimizing force field parameters & EVB models;
  • Cheminformatics (e.g.: RDKit);
  • X-ray and NMR crystallography, including small molecule and macromolecular;
  • Protein & RNA modeling, including Molecular Dynamics;
  • Virtual screening and Docking;
  • Machine Learning;
  • Quantum Methods, including DFT.

Bring your laptops, by the way, if you have something you’d like to show!

 

Want to speak? Ideas for speakers?

* If you have ideas for speakers, or would like to give a talk, let us know. We also invite lightning talks of 5 minutes (or fewer) from attendees, so if you have some cool code you’ve been working on and would like to demo, bring your laptop, smartphone, tablet, (wearable?) and tell us all about it. *

Please pass this message on to friends, colleagues, and students who may be interested too!

The main CCK web site is: http://compchemkitchen.org/
Follow us on Twitter: @CompChemKitchen
See you soon! We’re looking forward to seeing and hearing about the diverse range of computational molecular science that you’re cooking up…

—Garrett, Richard, Phil and Rob

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CCK-6

The next Comp Chem Kitchen for computational chemists, cheminformaticians, and molecular modelers will be on Thursday January 12th, 2017, at 5.00 pm in the Abbot’s Kitchen in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory. Our main speaker will be: Dr Russell Viner from Syngenta, UK, on Structure-Based Design of a Novel Class of Herbicidal HPPD Inhibitors. You can register here.

Refreshments will be provided.

We will also have a lightning talk:
  • Anthony Bradley (Chemistry / DLS)  MMTF: Faster access to protein structure data from the PDB
Please get in touch to volunteer (or nominate) anyone (students, postdocs, professionals, PIs, Emeritus Professors) to give a “lightning talk” of up to 5 minutes. The talks usually resemble one of the following styles:
  • an overview of computational chemistry in your research
  • a (live!) demonstration of some software that you are developing or using
  • a summary of a computational chemistry paper, method, or tool that you’ve seen recently

See previous CCK announcements for examples. Contact Garrett M. Morris, Richard Cooper, Phil Biggin or Rob Paton to volunteer.

CCK-5 [including RDKit workshop]

evotecukCCK-5, on Tuesday, November 1st, 2016, will be another “two-parter” comprised of CCK-5.1 and CCK-5.2. We would like to thank Evotec(UK) Ltd. for supporting this event.

For our fifth meeting, CCK-5.1, on Tuesday, November 1st, 2016, we are honoured to be hosting Greg Landrum; he is the leading developer of the open source cheminformatics toolkit, RDKit.

RDKit is an open source C++ toolkit for cheminformatics with Python, Java and C# wrappers and a number of KNIME cheminformatics nodes. A full overview of its functionality is provided in the documentation.


CCK-5.1

2:00-4:00 pm
Abbot’s Kitchen, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QR:

  • Dr Greg Landrum (VP Life Sciences, KNIME.com; and Managing Director,T5 Informatics GmbH) will run a hands-on workshop and hackathon on RDKit. Please bring your laptop (Windows, Mac or Linux): and don’t worry if you do not have RDKit installed. We will help you get set up.

A total of 35 places are available, please register early to avoid disappointment. Registration  for CCK-5.1.


CCK-5.2

5.00 – 6:00 pm
Talks and refreshments/beer, will again be held in the Abbot’s Kitchen in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QR:

Register for CCK-5.2.

CCK-3

Our third  meeting, CCK-3, on Tuesday, July 12th, 2016, will be a little different: it will be a two-parter, CCK-3.1 and CCK-3.2:

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) has been hosting and distributing the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) for 50 years, and its latest release, CSD 2016, is the “world’s essential database of crystal structures, [with] over 800,000 entries”.


CCK-3.1

1:30-3:30 pm
IT Teaching Laboratory (LG.02) of the Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LB:

Andrew Maloney & Peter Wood (CCDC): CSD Python API Workshop and Hackathon. (We are planning to provide hands-on access to the API, and since  there are only 48 desktops, so you should make sure to book a ticket.)

Register for CCK-3.1.


CCK-3.2

5.00 – 6:00 pm
Talks and refreshments/beer, will again be held in the Abbot’s Kitchen in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QR:

Register for CCK-3.2.

If you have a 5-minute Lightning Talk you’d like to give, get in touch!

Also, if you have some code you’d like demo, bring your laptop/mobile device.
Refreshments will be provided, including beer. (Thank you to Prof. Phil Biggin and the MRC Proximity to Discovery Fund for supporting CCK.)

CCK-2 (Tuesday 14th June)

Our second meeting, CCK-2 will be held in the Abbott’s Kitchen in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QR at 5 pm on Tuesday June 14th 2016 (8th Week). Free tickets are available.

Speakers

  • Mike Bodkin (Vice President, Research Informatics, Evotec), “Chemical space and how to warp drive discovery”.
  • Jonathan Yates (Department of Materials, University of Oxford), Lightning talk,  “A brief introduction to the Collaborative Computational Project for NMR Crystallography (CCP-NC)”.
  • Jonny Brooks-Bartlett (Elspeth Garman Group, Department of Biochemistry); Lightning talk: “The Julia Programming Language”.
  • Fernanda Duarte (Rob Paton Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford): Lightning talk: “Exploring biochemical systems using the Empirical Valence Bond (EVB) approach”.
  • Matteo Degiacomi (Justin Benesch Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford): Lightning talk: “The Python package BiobOx: a collection of data structures, tools and methods for biomolecular modelling” BiobOx is used for manipulation, measurement, analysis and assembly of atomistic and super coarse-grain structures as well as EM maps.

Talks will take place between 5pm and 6pm, please stay for refreshments and chat afterwards.

We would like to thank Prof. Philip Biggin and the MRC Proximity to Discovery Fund for supporting CCK.

First meeting

CCK-1 (Tuesday 24th May)

In the spirit of the name, our inaugural meeting, CCK-1 will be held in the Abbott’s Kitchen in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at 5pm on Tuesday May 24th 2016 (5th Week).

Refreshments will be provided.

Jerome Wicker from Chemistry will be speaking about “Machine learning for classification of solid form data extracted from CSD and ZINC”. The software tools discussed include RDKit, CSD, and scikit-learn.

There will also be 2 lightning talks, each ~5 minutes long. Hannah Patel from the Department of Statistics will speak on “Novelty Score: Prioritising compounds that potentially form novel protein-ligand interactions and novel scaffolds using an interaction centric approach”. Software covered will include Django and RDKit. Dr Michael Charlton from InhibOx will also speak on his latest research.