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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial">We are pleased to announce the second MMTF workshop: <b style="">Scalable and Reproducible Structural Bioinformatics Workshop & Hackathon 2018. </b></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background:white">This workshop will be held May 7 – 9, 2018 at the University of California, San Diego and hosted by the Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;background:white;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman""><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Sponsorship </span></strong><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">This workshop is sponsored by the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative. Air travel and 4-day lodging can be provided for non-commercial participants, including a limited number of international participants. Applicants will be selected based on the best fit for the program on a rolling basis.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;background:white;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial"><b>Apply now to secure your place in the workshop.</b></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;background:white;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman""><a href="https://www.eiseverywhere.com/mmtfworkshop2018/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Arial">https://www.eiseverywhere.com/mmtfworkshop2018/</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;background:white;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Application deadline: April 1, 2018.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background:white">This 3-day hands-on workshop and hackathon introduces you to:<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background:white">The first two days of the workshop combine lectures, hands-on applications, and programming sessions. On the third day, participants apply the new technologies to their own projects.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background:white">This workshop is aimed at graduate students, postdocs, staff, faculty, industrial researchers, and scientific software developers. Experience with Python is required.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background:white"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background:white"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">--<span> </span></span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></span></p><div class="gmail_signature" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#666666">Peter Rose, Ph.D.</font><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#666666">Director, Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#666666">San Diego Supercomputer Center</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#666666">UC San Diego</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#666666">+1-858-822-5497</font></span></div></div></div><br><p></p>
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