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The SBGrid Consortium is an innovative global research computing group financially supported by participating research laboratories and operated out of Harvard Medical School. SBGrid provides the global structural biology community with support for research computing. Members of the SBGrid Consortium fund SBGrid’s ongoing operations through an annual membership fee. The resulting organization is a user-supported and user-directed community resource. SBGrid’s primary service is the collection, deployment and maintenance of a comprehensive set of software and computational tools that are useful in structural biology research. As of 2015, SBGrid curates a collection of 300 structural biology applications for installation on computers in SBGrid laboratories around the world. The (SBGrid software library ) acts as a scientific "app store" that allows users to access a wide range of up-to-date applications without having to download, compile, configure, maintain or update software. SBGrid also develops a specialized research computing infrastructure for structural biologists in the Boston area, and develops specialized (cloud and web-based software ), including the recently released (AppCiter application ), and the pilot (SBGrid Data Bank System ). SBGrid also maintains the (SBGridTV YouTube channel ), which houses a collection of data processing software tutorials, and organizes structural biology workshops, including the 2014 International Workshop on Data Processing in Crystallography. Seventeen workshop lectures are also posted on the YouTube channel. Members also benefit from access to SBGrid-supported high performance computing (HPC) resources and training opportunities. == SBGrid Background == SBGrid was first created by (Piotr Sliz ) as an in-house effort to support and maintain a few dozen X-ray crystallography in the laboratory of Stephen C. Harrison and the late Don Craig Wiley, then at Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital. After adding support for additional labs, SBGrid began charging user fees to recover operational costs in 2002. It also expanded software support to include electron microscopy (EM), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and other structural biology techniques. In response to requests from users for support for Macintosh computers, SBGrid recompiled most of its applications to run on the OSX platform in 2004. By 2006, the SBGrid consortium included 37 laboratories at 14 different institutions. SBGrid’s user-oriented community began to solidify in 2008 with its first user meeting: Quo Vadis Structural Biology (“Where is structural biology heading?”). The meeting attracted approximately 300 participants and incorporated a structural biology symposium and three workshops: scientific programming with Python; molecular visualization with Maya; and OSX programming. SBGrid held subsequent meetings in Boston (2009, 2013, 2014). In 2011 SBGrid hosted the Open Science Grid All-Hands Meeting at Harvard Medical School after having established a Virtual Organization (SBGrid VO) within the Open Science Grid (OSG) and deployed a grid computing portal in 2010. SBGrid has become one of the top OSG users (outside of high-energy physics users) and utilizes ~5,000,000 CPU hours per year. In 2012, SBGrid launched a webinar program featuring software tutorials from a different developer each month. Recordings are publicly available on the (SBGridTV YouTube channel ). SBGrid team members have also published a guide to software licensing, an editorial that advocates for better disclosure of source code, and recommendations for optimizing peer review of software source code.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=A )〕 By 2014, SBGrid had 245 member laboratories around the world. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SBGrid Consortium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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