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Technical Notes: April's software push includes updates to twelve titles -AlphaPulldown, Avogadro, BioEmu, ChemEx, ColabFold, CryoAtom, Foldtree, OpenFold3, PyMOL, Relion, Scipion, and TomoNet.
More here: https://sbgrid.org/software/recent/archive/2026/04/
Member News: Congratulations to Stephen Blacklow, Chair and Gustavus Adolphus Pfeiffer Professor of BCMP, and Johannes Walter, Edward S. Wood Professor of BCMP at Harvard Medical School on their election to the National Academy of Sciences!
More here: https://www.nasonline.org/news/2026-nas-election/
Community Announcement: Upcoming event from our partners at Instruc-ERIC
Instruct-ERIC Webinar Series: Structure Meets Function 47
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
*Casper Berger from Rosalind Franklin Institute on Adaptive Milling: imaging feedback-driven automated lamella fabrication for in situ structural biology
*Chiara Marabelli from Università di Pavia on Establishing a Vitrification Protocol of Large Ventricular Cells from Murine Models for Volume Imaging
Register here: https://instruct-eric.org/events/structure-meets-function-47/
New Title Alert: af_analysis- is a Python package for analysis of AlphaFold protein structure predictions from AlphaFold 2/3, ColabFold, AlphaFold-Multimer, AlphaPulldown, Boltz1, Chai-1, and MassiveFold.
Learn more here: https://github.com/samuelmurail/af_analysis/
Join our software webinar on May 12th to hear from Jarrett Johnson, Senior Developer from Schrödinger, on Upcoming improvements to visualization and CryoEM support in PyMOL.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 - 12:00pm ET
Jarrett Johnson, Ph.D.
Senior Developer, Schrödinger, Inc.
Register here: https://sbgrid.org/webinars/
Community Announcement:
Upcoming event from our partners at Instruc-ERIC
Calorimetric and Spectroscopic Characterization of Biomolecules
September 7-11, 2026 | CEITEC Brno, Czech Republic
Organized in collaboration with the Biomolecular Interactions and Crystallography Core Facility at The Central European Institute of Technology
Register here: https://instruct-eric.org/events/instruct-course-on-calorimetric-and-spectroscopic-characterization-of-biomolecules
Meharry Medical College student Mudiare Ikoba highlights a publication in the Journal of Cell Biology from SBGrid member Antonina Roll-Mecak and colleagues in which the authors analyze the structure of the RPGR-TTLL5 complex to shed light on the pathomechanism of retititis pigmentosa.
Read more here: https://medium.com/sbgrid-community-news/how-proteins-work-together-to-support-our-vision-e4e1a30a6850
New Title Alert: AF3Complex- is a model equipped with the same improvements as AF2Complex, along with a novel method for excluding ligands, built on AlphaFold 3.
Learn more here: https://github.com/Jfeldman34/AF3Complex
Fisk University student Cariuna Ellison's highlight features an eLife publication from Jochen Zimmer's group at University of Virginia School of Medicine that describes the use of Cryo-EM to reveal how CvHAS utilizes a two-step mechanism to navigate the balance between substrate specificity and degeneracy.
Read more here: https://medium.com/sbgrid-community-news/molecular-proofreading-mechanisms-of-enzyme-binding-567ed3b5c4f2
