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title: miniCUP - Boston | Nov. 9, 2017
description: OpenEye invites you to miniCUP Boston Tuesday, November 9, 2017. Come preview, learn about, and experience Orion, OpenEye's cloud-native, auto-scaling platform for computer-aided drug design.
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# [miniCUP - Boston | Nov. 9, 2017](https://www.eyesopen.com/events/minicup-boston-2017)

 Written by [OpenEye Scientific](https://www.eyesopen.com/events/author/openeye-scientific) | Aug 9, 2017 4:38:00 PM

### **Boston, MA  • Nov. 9, ****2017**

OpenEye invites you to **miniCUP Boston** on **Thursday, November 9, 2017**. 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 new **Merck & Company** at **33 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA  **and will take place from 9am - 5pm followed by a cocktail reception from 5 - 7pm. Lunch will be provided.

### **Agenda**

**Morning Session**

- 9:00 - Registration - light breakfast
- 9:30 - Welcome - Science in the Age of Cloud - *Anthony Nicholls, CEO*
- 10:00 - A CEO, a hot stack and a live demo - what could possibly go wrong? – *Anthony Nicholls, CEO*
- 10:30 - *Tea*
- 11:00 - Workfloe programming - OE Cubed! - *Matt Geballe*
- 11:30 - Cloud-based affinity prediction - a collaborative experiment in Orion - *Christopher Bayly*
- 12:00 - *Guest Speaker* - Building next-generation forcefields and moving free energy calculations to the cloud - *John Chodera* - *Chodera Lab, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center*
- 12:30 - *Lunch*

**Afternoon Session***  
*

- 1:30 - Spruce and MMDS - preparing and delivering model-ready protein structures - *Bob Tolbert, CTO*
- 2:00 - *Guest Speaker* - How Can Your Data and Knowledge Outlive the Program? – *Meir Glick, Merck & Co.*
- 2:30 - Rapid macrocycle conformation generation in OMEGA - *Paul Hawkins*
- 3:00 - *Tea*
- 3:30  - Industrializing small molecule crystal predictions with application to protein-ligand binding -* Tom Darden*
- 4:00 -*Guest Speaker* - Leveraging ORION for Large-scale QM calculations to accurately estimate small molecule torsional strain: Application to virtual screening and structure-based design - *Brajesh Rai, Pfizer*
- 4:30 - High precision experiment and low precision theory- how useful is modeling water with SZMAP and MD? - *Greg Warren* 
- 5:00 - *Reception*
- 7:00 - *Close*

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

 

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