Comp Chem Kitchen: CCK-14 Hackathon-2

TL;DR: CCK-14 Hackathon-2, on Thursday, December 13th, 2018, from 10 am – 5 pm in the Computer Suite, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, followed by a wrap up in Biochemistry’s Seminar Room 5-6 pm. Bring your own ideas and programming problems, and join experts from the Cambridge Structural Database to learn about their Python API. Pizza provided. Hackathon tickets are limited, so please book by December 11th, 2018.   Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please join us for our next “Comp Chem Kitchen” CCK Hackathon, 10 am – 6 pm on Thursday, December 13th, 2018, in the Computer Suite, Department of Biochemistry, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU. The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre will be present to help out on projects using the the CSD (Cambridge Structural Database) Python API. Places are limited; please register before December 11th, 2018. The hackathon will follow this format: In advance: assembly of ideas and teams via website. On the day: 10.00 am: Introduction.  Assemble 4-8 teams with some expertise in each. 10.30 am – 12.30 pm: Hacking – design and tools 12.30 – 1.00 pm: Five min updates / requests for input and help 1.00 – 2.00 pm: Lunch 2.00 – 5.00 pm: Hacking 5.00 – 6.00 pm: Lightning summaries of hacked projects. (Biochemistry Seminar Room) Pizza and refreshments will be provided. 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 garrett.morris@stats.ox.ac.uk richard.cooper@chem.ox.ac.uk philip.biggin@bioch.ox.ac.uk robert.paton@chem.ox.ac.uk We would like to thank the University of Oxford MPLS Network and Interdisciplinary Fund for making CCK possible.