Consortium for Management of Experimental Data in Structural Biology
Fourth imgCIF workshop (new series)
at BNL on Thursday 22 May 2008

There will be a workshop on Raw Image Formats in Structural Biology on 22 May 2007 at:

Over the past 2 years, imgCIF has seen increasing use, and the interactions among raw image formats for x-ray crystallography, neutron crystallography and microscopy have started to be addressed. This one-day meeting will be a follow-up to the 2006--2007 imgCIF workshops at the summer 2006 ACA meeting, at BNL in May 2007, and in summer 2007 in conjunction with BSR 2007 in Manchester and at the Diamond Light Source.

We will have reviews of the current status of imgCIF, exploration of ways to move between imgCIF and NeXus using XML and HDF and ways to work with microscopy and tomography images.

The morning will be used for presentations and the afternoon for discussions and plans for the future. There is no registration fee, but space is limited, so registration will be required. Lunch will be provided. If you are interested in participating, please email bnl_imgcif_may08@medsbio.org no later than 15 April 2008.

Proposed Agenda:

8:30 am Breakfast

9:00 am Welcome and introduction to the workshop    H. J. Bernstein, Dowling
                                                    R. M. Sweet, BNL
9:10 am Participants introduce themselves

9:20 am Progress in adoption of imgCIF and
          integration with NeXus                    H. J. Bernstein, Dowling
                                                    handout
                                                    imgCIF dictionary
                                                    CBFlib manual
                                                    cbf2nx.c

9:40 am Discussion of Priorities and Agenda

10:00 am (Title TBD)                                A. Howard, IIT

10:20 am "The Importance of Standard Image Formats for Scientific Progress"
                                                    N. Sauter, LBNL
                                                    abstract
                                                    handout

10:40 am "Through the Looking Glass: creating an HDF data prism"
                                                    M. Dougherty, NCMI
                                                    abstract
                                                    ImageCore V01 RFC (pdf)

11:00 am Break

11:10 am "Bio-Formats and the Open Microscopy Environment"
                                                    K. W. Elicieri, LOCI
                                                    handout

11:30 am (harvesting other beam-line/synchrotron information)
                                                    C. Nielsen, ADSC
                                                    handout

11:50 am Discussion of vendor issues with data formats

12:10 pm Discussion and plans for the afternoon

12:30 pm Lunch

1:30  pm Discussion of imgCIF/NeXus/HDF integration issues

2:15  pm Discussion of future plans and funding for
         software support and meetings

3:00  pm Break

3:30  pm Preparation of recommendations and conclusions

4:45  pm Discussion of ad-hoc dinner plans for interested parties

5:00  pm Adjourn the BNL workshop

Participants (as of 16 May 08):

"Justin Anderson" <justin at rayonix dot com> Rayonix, LLC (Formerly Mar USA)
"Georgi Darakev" <darakevg at gmail dot com> Dowling College
"Nikolay Darakev" <darakevn at gmail dot com> Dowling College
"Matthew T. Dougherty" <matthewd at bcm.tmc dot edu> National Center for Macromolecular Imaging
"Kevin Eliceiri" <eliceiri at wisc dot edu> Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation
"Frances C. Bernstein" <fcb at bernstein-plus-sons dot com> Bernstein + Sons
"Herbert J. Bernstein" <yaya at bernstein-plus-sons dot com> Dowling College
"Andrew J. Howard" <howard at iit dot edu> Illinois Institute of Technology
"Chris Nielsen" <cn at adsc-xray dot com> ADSC
"Mark Pressprich" <Mark.Pressprich at Rigaku dot com> Rigaku
"Curtis Rueden" <ctrueden at wisc dot edu> Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation
"Nicholas K. Sauter" <nksauter at lbl dot gov> LBNL
"John Skinner" <skinner at bnl >b>dot gov> Brookhaven National Laboratory
"Robert M. Sweet" <sweet at bnl dot gov> Brookhaven National Laboratory

Housing:

Once a participant has an approved guest number, then we can request on-site housing in the Guest House ($103/night) or the participant can make their own arrangements with a (sort of) nearby hotel. Keep in mind that if you stay in a hotel, you will need a rental car for transportation to BNL unless you can make other arrangements with the hotel (some of them have shuttle service).

The hotels that visitors usually stay at are:

Hampton Inn Brookhaven
2000 North Ocean Ave
Farmingville, NY 11738
(631) 732-7300
Located off exit 63 of the LIE
Hampton Inn home page http://www.hamptoninnbrookhaven.com/

Radisson Hotel MacArthur Airport
1730 North Ocean Avenue
Holtsville, NY 11742
(631) 758-2900
Exit 63 off the Long Island Expressway (LIE)
Radisson homepage http://www.radisson.com/holtsvilleny

Holiday Inn Express
1707 Route 58
Riverhead, NY 11901
(631) 727-2846
Holiday Inn homepage http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ex/1/en/hotel/rihed;jsessionid=3DUSVG2H3=


      

Travel arrangements

Those needing support for their travel arrangements to attend should contact the meeting organizers at BNL_imgCIF_May08@medsbio.org and we will try to help.

For those for whom a budget for travel reimbursement has been agreed to, please use this travel form

There is no good public transportation in this area of Long Island. If you come in by air, you may wish to consider renting a car. The closest airport is ISP (Long Island MacArthur). For more information see http://www.bnl.gov/visitorinfo/#Transportation_&_Travel