map challenge

The following updates have been made to the challenges site this week:

1. Model challenge submissions are now open.
2. Challenge submissions (both map and model) now require login to the challenges site.  Emails have been sent out to all challenger registrants with their login information.
3. Challenge news is now available via rss feed.

Some map challenge participants may be encountering difficulty processing the BMV individual frames data (not the original boxed out particle images). One has to work out the image processing scheme which is a part of the challenge. To help challengers understand the data, the BMV raw data providers have provided the following note:

Everyone who applied for SDSC Gordon compute time for the map challenge will receive an initial allocation of 22,000 service units per proposed target. Altogether 14 users plan to perform a total of 45 reconstructions. Some useful links:

• create an xsede portal account
• read the SDSC Gordon user guide

Other things to be aware of:

Nov 9, 2015: We have two major announcements regarding the ongoing EMDataBank Map Challenge.

First, the San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) is generously offering supercomputing resources to support the Map Challenge.  The resources, made available through an SDSC Director’s Discretionary Award, include 1 Million core-hours on SDSC Gordon and 20TB of sandbox data storage on Gordon’s parallel file system Data Oasis.

EMDataBank/Unified Data Resource for 3DEM is pleased to announce the 2015 Map Challenge.

All members of the Scientific Community--at all levels of experience--are invited to participate as Challengers, and/or as Assessors.

Seven benchmark raw image datasets have been selected for the challenge. Six are selected from recently described single particle structure determinations with image data collected as multi-frame movies; one is based on simulated (in silico) images.

EMDataResource is hosting community-wide challenges to critically evaluate 3DEM methods that are coming into use, with the ultimate goal of developing recommendations for validation criteria associated with every 3DEM map deposited to the EM Data Bank (EMDB) and map-derived model deposited to Protein Data Bank (PDB).