Venue
Remote course (TBA)
October 26-30, 2020 from 15.00-18.00 CET
Overall aims and course outline
Electron microscopy is a well-established and rapidly growing structural technique. There are some consolidated software packages like Relion, Xmipp, Cistem, Eman, IMOD, TomoJ, … that address the image processing steps required for single particle analysis and electron tomography. There are also independent software tools that address a particular and isolated task like movie alignment, CTF determination, particle picking, etc. Software platforms like Scipion facilitate the integration of packages from many different laboratories, and promote the cross-checking of the results by alternative methods. Additionally, Scipion keeps track of all the operations, parameters and steps undertaken from the raw data to the final maps and models, promoting, in this way, the reproducibility of the results. Scipion is used at individual laboratories and at general cryoEM Facilities worldwide. Scipion is quickly expanding to cover the atomic modelling steps and, more recently, tomography software.
This course will show how to integrate into Scipion any software related to electron microscopy data analysis. You will learn the basic Scipion architecture and to construct a fully functional plugin containing the main elements: protocols, viewers and wizards. The course is aimed at programmers, engineers, computational scientists, physicists, mathematicians, and in general to information technology related scientists with interest in integrating their ideas or software into Scipion. Especially welcome are those developers of software packages or independent software tools for Electron Microscopy. It is suggested that attendees come with their own computer in which they can install software development tools.
Target Audience
Software developers interested in developing a Scipion plugin or integrating their software in Scipion.
Conditions
Remote course
Medium programming skills are required:
Python skills are desirable.
AWS machines might be provided by us.
If you want to use your own laptop for development instead of you may need:
– OS Linux (Ubuntu recommended)
– CUDA (if you have a GPU)
– python3
– Conda or miniconda (optional, otherwise we will use virtualenv)
Contact
Lead contact:
Carlos Oscar Sorzano
email. coss@cnb.csic.es
Pablo Conesa
email: pconesa@cnb.csic.es
Administrative Contact:
Blanca Benitez
email: blanca@cnb.csic.es
Tutors
I2PC staff: Carlos Oscar Sanchez-Sorzano (COSS), David Maluenda (DM), Jorge Jiménez (JJ), Pablo Conesa (PC), Roberto Marabini (RM), Yunior Fonseca (YF).
Other tutors: José Miguel de la Rosa Trevín (JMRT from SciLifeLab in Stockholm), Grigory Sharov (GS from MRC-LMB in Cambridge)
Program
You can access the program here.
Key dates:
01 – 30 September, 2020: Submission of the course application
01 – 15 October, 2020: Communication of awarded applications
REGISTRATION
Registration will be free for all attendees.
Fill your application here. (Registration is now closed)
This course is funded by Instruct – ERIC, an Integrated Structural Biology Infrastructure for Europe and CRIOMECORR Project.
