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title: 2016-10 | miniCUP | San Francisco, CA
description: OpenEye invites you to miniCUP South San Francisco on Thursday, October 6, 2016. Come preview, learn about, and experience Orion, OpenEye's cloud-native, auto-scaling platform for computer-aided drug design.
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# [2016-10 | miniCUP | San Francisco, CA](https://www.eyesopen.com/events/2016/10/minicup-san-francisco)

 Written by [OpenEye Scientific](https://www.eyesopen.com/events/author/openeye-scientific) | Oct 6, 2016 4:00:00 AM

### **San Francisco, CA • Oct. 6****, 2016**

OpenEye invites you to **miniCUP South San Francisco** on **Thursday, October 6, 2016**. Come preview, learn about, and experience Orion, OpenEye's cloud-native, auto-scaling platform for computer-aided drug design. 

This event will be held at **The Embassy Suites San Francisco Airport - South San Francisco, 250 Gateway Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA 94080** and will take place from 9am - 5pm followed by a cocktail reception from 5 - 7pm. Lunch will be provided.

To reserve your spot for the event please send an email to [westcoast@eyesopen.com](mailto:westcoast@eyesopen.com) as soon as possible as space is limited. There is no charge to attend.

**miniCUP 2016 - Agenda**

**Morning Session**

- 8:30 - Registration - coffee and pastries
- 9:00 - OpenEye and Orion Vision - *Anthony Nicholls, CEO*
- 9:30 - Developing for Orion: A Preliminary Prospectus - *Krisztina Boda*
- 9:55 - Workfloe Programming with OpenEye Toolkits - *Jharrod LaFon*
- 10:25 - *Break*
- 10:50 - Validating Your Crystal Structures: Iridium in Orion - *Greg Warren*
- 11:15 - Protein Structure Organization, Search, Visualization and Analysis - *Bob Tolbert*
- 11:45 - Reactions, Reagents & Molecular Analogs - *Geoff Skillman*
- 12:05 - *Lunch*

**Afternoon ****Session***  
*

- 1:20 - From Jupyter to Orion: Building Models Using the Scientific Python Ecosystem - *Matt Geballe*
- 1:45 - Solubility Prediction: Crystal Structure QM Calculations in Psi4 - *Tom Darden*
- 2:10 - Virtual Screening Validation in Orion - *Paul Hawkins*
- 2:35 - *Break*
- 3:00  - Molecular Kriging - Models You Can Understand and Trust -* Mark McGann*
- 3:25 - Solution Phase Free Energy and Ligand Binding - *Anthony Nicholls, CEO*
- 3:50 - *Break (10 mins)*
- 4-5:00 - Experience Orion: Hands-on with OpenEye's Cloud Platform 
    - Exploring Orion - *Geoff Skillman*
- 5-7:00 - *Cocktail Reception*

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