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2nd Scipion Facilities Course (online edition). Madrid, 2020.

Dates: Tuesday 27 Oct – Friday 30,  4 days, afternoon from 16:00-18:00 CET Aim The aim of this meeting is to show what scipion offers to a Cryo-em facility. The course will have a strong “practical component”, since workflows will be running live on the Amazon cloud. I2PC is organising a Cryo-EM Scipion course specifically

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Instruct Course on the development of image processing workflows in streaming and structural data analysis components for Electron Microscopy. Madrid, October 26-30, 2020. (Online edition)

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

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2nd Edition of the Instruct course on Image Processing for Electron Microscopy and hybrid modelling. Madrid, September 10 – 13, 2019

Venue National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), Madrid, Spain Madrid, September 10 – 13, 2019 Overall aims and course outline Software platforms as Scipion facilitate the integration of packages from many different laboratories, and promote the cross-checking of the results by alternative methods. Additionally, it keeps track of all the operations, parameters and steps undertaken from

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Python developer position open

We are seeking python developers to join our Scipion team in Madrid. The team owns and develops an open-source image-processing platform widely used on biomedicine. The lab is involved in several European and Spanish National Research Projects and its software is extensively used in many top institutions all over the world with a high impact

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Registration Open for the Instruct Biennial 2019. 22nd – 24th May, 2019. Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain

Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference Structural Biology: Deeper into the Cell. 22nd – 24th May, 2019. Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain. The 4th Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference will take place in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, from May 22 till May 24, 2019. The historical Alcalá de Henares was the original location of the Universidad Complutense, founded in

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2nd I2PC cryoEM Facilities Meeting. Madrid, June 26-27, 2018

Venue National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), Madrid, Spain Madrid, June 26 – 27, 2018 Summary I2PC is organising its second Cryo-EM Facilities meeting. The aim is to gather together Cryo-EM Facility managers who want to share their experience, problems and solutions on data handling and processing, using Scipion or not.   I2PC, as developers of

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Scipion V1.1 Release

We are very pleased to announce the release of a new version of Scipion. It’s been over a year since the previous and first version and we have been working on 3 main goals for this release: Consolidation: We put and will always put our best effort into making Scipion a robust and reliable software.

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Scipion Developer Position Open

In the context of a number of national and international calls/projects, and for incorporation at the Biocomputing Unit of the CNB-CSIC in Madrid, we are seeking for a mixed profile of a CryoEM structural biologist with programing skills, or vice versa. In the absence of one of the skills, you must be ready to learn

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Instruct – New Call for R&D and Internships

Instruct provides access to state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology to support research in structural biology. Our aim is to encourage and facilitate the integrative use of technologies and methodologies that are available at our 16 Instruct Centres around Europe and in Israel. The Instruct Internship Programme funds research visits of 3-6 months duration to Instruct Centres.

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