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1 van de grote kritiekpunten op het TSC project was het gebrek aan communicatie vanuit TRI naar de deelnemers op dit project. Sinds enige tijd is Adam Hughes betrokken bij dit project en ik zie een voorzichtige beweging naar meer communicatie. Op het TRI forum is het volgende te vinden:
(http://www.childhooddisea...bb=get_topic;f=5;t=000266)
Daarnaast is er nog een volgende posting door Adam:
(http://www.childhooddisea...bb=get_topic;f=5;t=000268)
(http://www.childhooddisea...bb=get_topic;f=5;t=000266)
Ik neem voorlopig aan dat "commercially-available drug candidates" candidates zijn die aangekocht zijn door TRI2006 Project Goals
My first visit to TRI (February 3 – 6) is now in the books, and I wanted to take a few minutes here to update the community on the activities from this weekend. We were able to accomplish a great deal of knowledge transfer from Charles and Wolfgang to myself, which will be very important as we move forward. Of more immediate concern to the science and community of the project, we established a strong set of goals for the coming year that will help to revitalize the project and give us a firm foundation for future improvements.
First and foremost, this project is about finding drugs that can help fight diseases. You all have done a lot of work over the last few years in crunching the candidates and targets that we have given you, and your efforts have whittled the field down to several top conformers. While we need to keep working on the current libraries and targets in order to find all of the promising conformers that we can, we realize that a large percentage of the solution space has already been visited. It is for this reason that our top priority for this quarter is the release of a new target and new candidate libraries. To that end, we have identified a promising new TSC target and two large libraries of commercially-available drug candidates. I am currently working on formatting the associated files for use with our software.
While the science of drug discovery is the central focus of the project, contributor statistics provide tangible, up-to-date metrics for users to gauge their activity and the contributions they have made to the search for drug treatments. To make tracking our progress a better, more meaningful experience for you (and us!), we are planning to update the statistics processing code to improve both accuracy and currency. I am working with Sengent to make sure we have access to a stable, up-to-date code base before I begin my development work.
Finally, this transition period in the project’s life cycle provides a good opportunity to step back and look at where we’ve been and where we would like to go in the future. Fairly soon, I will be releasing Vision and Values statements for the project, which will help guide our actions moving forward. These will be living documents, and I encourage you to participate in shaping the project by giving me your thoughts on these topics. Then, later in the year, we plan to publish a review article detailing CommunityTSC’s accomplishments and our place in the historical and current Distributed Computing landscape for computational chemistry. This will serve as the perfect celebratory capstone on the first phase of the project as we turn the page and move forward.
As you can see, we had a busy weekend, and there is a lot of work to do in the coming year. I’m confident, though, that we’ll be able to make important improvements to the project and continue to do good science, and I look forward to working with the talented people at TRI and all of you in our dedicated user communities. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns.
Thank you,
Adam
Daarnaast is er nog een volgende posting door Adam:
(http://www.childhooddisea...bb=get_topic;f=5;t=000268)
We weten allemaal op dit project dat er van alles gezegd wordt, dus ik bekijk het op wat afstand, maar krijg wel het gevoel dat er eindelijk wat beweging in de zaak zit. En dat lijkt mij positief !Vision and Values
Vision Statement
Community TSC will be a premier distributed-computing platform for conducting drug-discovery research, enabling participants to make meaningful contributions in the fight against childhood diseases. The combination of the latest, most promising computational technologies and scientific knowledge will form the backbone of a community in which participant ownership and engagement are of paramount importance.
Values and Objectives
Value : The Community TSC project is dedicated to fighting childhood diseases through
the use of the latest drug-discovery knowledge and computer simulation
technologies.
Objectives:
• Actively search for new and promising target proteins.
• Maintain fresh candidate libraries.
• Evaluate novel simulation techniques, and implement them in project software where appropriate.
Value : The Community TSC project recognizes the importance of high-quality software
and hardware systems in the modern drug-discovery landscape.
Objectives:
• Perform routine maintenance and updating of software to ensure its viability and compatibility with industry standards.
• Regularly enhance the software to improve its function and the user experience.
• Continue to monitor the hardware systems to provide a stable computing environment.
• Evaluate other software and hardware options where appropriate.
Value: The Community TSC project values the vital contributions of a vibrant, engaged
user community.
Objectives:
• Provide robust day-to-day software and hardware support to the user community.
• Facilitate community involvement and ownership through frequent, honest communication of project goals and status.
• Aggressively seek means of expanding the user base.
Value: The Community TSC project is committed to advancing the science of
computer-aided drug discovery.
Objectives:
• Establish and nurture relationships with drug-discovery researchers in academia and other research venues.
• Share ideas and results through journal articles, presentations, and private communications.
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