OMSF Project News - September 2024

Here's your monthly news round up for OMSF projects!

OpenFold

• The consortium is growing rapidly - OpenFold has welcomed 3 new partners in the last week alone!
• OpenFold 3: The training code is finished, and thanks to some generous donations of compute power, they'll be ready to start training the model soon. With this support, OpenFold aims to release a brand-new model end of the year.

Open Force Field

• Version 2.2.1 is live, bringing in linear angles —nice and tidy!
• Patch updates to Interchange are in the works. Keep an eye out for other minor releases in the coming months as well.

Open Free Energy

• Benchmarking is moving along great, and the community is really engaged in running simulations. Thanks to all of the OFE partners involved!
• Open Free Energy is gearing up for the 1.1 release soon!
• The team met at MSKCC to the OpenFE roadmap and work on several key protocols. Thanks so much to John Chodera and the rest of his team for hosting us.
• Some big news - Alchemiscale is merging into the Open Free Energy repository with its 0.5.1 release. Folding At Home tests are on the horizon! There are a few roadblocks, but we’re making progress and hope to have things more stable in the next couple of months.

OpenRosetta

• Summer RosettaCon was a blast! Feedback was excellent - everyone had a great time at the brand new venue. Before the event, we came together for a visioning workshop and mapped out a strategic direction the Commons. Stay tuned for information about Winter RosettaCon happening next year.

OMSF: Eco-Infra

• We’ve hit a big milestone with GitHub Runners! With more in the pipeline, including benchmarking standardizations, ephemeral dev machines, and continuing to provide more consistent infrastructure.
• Open Free Energy has completed its first major merge, and so far, everything’s working smoothly!
• The team will presenting at US-RSE soon—if you are going to Albequerque in October, say hi!