Hi all,
I'd also like to thank you all for attending this UGM at the EBI and
contributing to its success.
And, of course, a big thanks to Greg for, well, you know.
:)
See you all next year - or sooner!
George
On 22 October 2013 09:09, Greg Landrum <greg.land...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looks like I'm never going to have time to do a really thorough write up
> of the UGM. In the interests of getting something out there, I guess I will
> do something short.
>
> From my point of view, the UGM was a great success. George did a great job
> of getting everything organized, and everything went very smoothly. We had
> an interesting set of talks, some good questions and discussions during the
> talks, and a couple of very nice social activities at the pub.
>
> The slides and ipython notebooks for many of the talks are available in
> github:
> https://github.com/rdkit/UGM_2013
>
> A few things to note from the talks:
> 1) The code for PDB handling, MMFF94, and Open3DAlign is now all on the
> trunk. It will be in the upcoming release.
> 2) Jameed updated the MMPA code in Contrib; the new version is definitely
> worth checking out, as is Jameed's tutorial on how to use it (part of the
> materials linked to above).
> 3) Jameed (and his employer) also contributed an implementation of the
> Fraggle similarity algorithm described in his talk. The command line tools
> are now in Contrib and the main similarity code is in
> $RDBASE/rdkit/Chem/Fraggle. This will be in the upcoming release.
>
> The roundtable produced a long list of ideas for future features/changes.
> Some of these are already done, the rest will land in github as I manage to
> find time.
>
> We also had a discussion about the frequency of RDKit releases. It seems
> that the quarterly release cycle creates extra work for the community as
> well as me, so we're going to switch to doing releases every six months. If
> a critical bug is found (and fixed!) I'll do a patch release, but new
> features and improvements will only be released twice a year. Anyone who
> wants to stay on the "bleeding edge" can, of course, track the version of
> the code in github. That doesn't get checked in without passing tests on at
> least one platform. If this slower release cycle ends up creating problems,
> we can always go back to three or four times a year.
>
> Many many thanks to everyone for participating; in particular everyone who
> did a presentation or tutorial and George for the organization. I'm already
> looking forward to next year!
>
> -greg
>
>
>
>
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