Addressing training needs for advanced simulations in biomolecular research

The European BioExcel Center of Excellence, which IAS-5/INM-9 belongs to, is organizing a workshop on "Addressing training needs for advanced simulations in biomolecular research" which will be held at hosted by the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), in Hinxton, UK on 3-4 May 2016.

The purpose of this workshop is twofold; firstly, it will provide users of three important biomolecular modelling and simulation resources, GROMACS, HADDOCK and CPMD, to learn directly from the developers of these resources and find out about how BioExcel - Europe’s new centre of excellence for BioMolecular Research - will enable users to harness high-performance computing (HPC) to use these tools in a user-friendly environment that does not assume any prior experience of using HPC. Secondly, it will enable users of these services to provide BioExcel with feedback on the competencies needed to fully exploit these services. ‘Surgeries’ will enable participants to have one-to-one discussions with the developers of these resources, so that together they can ease bottlenecks in their modelling and simulation workflows.