[3dem] Call to Participate: SBGrid CryoEM Cloud Tournament

[Estrella Fernandez-Gimenez]

SBGrid <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sbgrid.org/__;!!Mih3wA!Dwh0JzioY4HsoSq-1EbH7ey7hyHx3IzjC6oaBOnMP-T2I662vAJSu-RJggyHpDllu7EHXHesbRPWPIsS61Sf4Y0AeyA2jTg$ > is launching the SBGrid CryoEM Cloud Tournament, a global competition in which teams will process the same confidential, unpublished CryoEM dataset in an AWS cloud environment and compete to answer the biological question posed by the dataset as accurately and efficiently as possible.

The tournament is open broadly to structural biologists, CryoEM researchers, developers, faculty, trainees, and research staff worldwide. SBGrid membership is not required.

Participating teams will receive access to a preconfigured SBGrid cloud environment with CPU/GPU resources, storage, software, and technical support. Computational credits are provided by AWS.

Teams will be evaluated on:

structural accuracy and quality
biological interpretation
computational cost and efficiency
reproducibility and scientific usefulness

The Tournament Judging Committee includes:
Mihnea Bostina (University of Otago), Bharat Reddy (HotSpot Therapeutics), Goran Bajic (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), and Rubén Sánchez-García (IE University), bringing expertise in CryoEM, structural biology, computational methods, and structure-guided discovery.

We anticipate selecting approximately 12 teams, with the competition running for approximately 1–2 months. Winning teams will have opportunities to present their approaches at several venues over the coming year, and joint and individual publications will also be considered.

Interested? Please complete this short expression-of-interest form: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/01a00ee874077cb7863f529e37f9bab5__;!!Mih3wA!Dwh0JzioY4HsoSq-1EbH7ey7hyHx3IzjC6oaBOnMP-T2I662vAJSu-RJggyHpDllu7EHXHesbRPWPIsS61Sf4Y0AGRmORyA$  

Submitting the form is not a binding commitment. We will contact pre-registered groups directly as the competition details and timeline are finalized.

Because the dataset is unpublished, participating teams will be required to maintain strict confidentiality.

We will reach out to the pre-registered contacts with more information soon. 

On behalf of Piotr Sliz (SBGrid PI), SBGrid, and the Tournament Judging Committee,

Best regards,

Estrella
SBCloud Tournament Project Coordinator

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Estrella Fernandez-Gimenez, PhD
Structural Biology Software Specialist
SBGrid & Instruct-ERIC
Spain
estrella at hkl.hms.harvard.edu




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