Map Challenge Timeline

JAN-JUN 2015	DEVELOPMENT PHASE
Jan-May	Map Committee meets monthly to identify challenge targets, goals, and parameters
Mar-May	Requests to 3DEM community members for public deposition of raw image Datasets; website development
July 1	Raw image data for all targets available for download at EMPIAR
JUL 2015-APR 2016	CHALLENGE PHASE
July	Pre-Challenge Announcement, Challenger and Assessor Registration Opens
August 1	Map Submission Opens
Nov 9-20	Registered Participants may apply for SDSC Gordon Supercomputer Usage
April 1-2	Map Challenge Committee satellite discussion @ International CryoEM Image Analysis Symposium (Lake Tahoe, CA)
Apr 15	Map Submission Closes @ 21:00 UTC
2016-2017	ASSESSMENT PHASE
May-August	Challenge Data initial assessments, metadata extraction, preparation for release (Map Committee)
Sept-Oct	Review Period (Map Committee)
4 Nov 2016-30 Apr 2017	Assessors invited to perform analyses and comment on Released Data (Blinded)
6 June 2017	Map Submission Data UnBlinded
June - Sept 2017	Analysis of Assessments with full metadata
Oct 6-8 2017	2 day Workshop for all challenge participants -- Committee, Challengers, Assessors
Post-workshop	Challenge Writeups (multiple articles) for Journal Special Issue

Please send your challenge questions, comments and feedback to challenges@emdataresource.org

EM Validation Challenges