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Nov 18, 2020 Advisory Board Meeting

Posted on 18 Nov 2020 by Diego Nolasco

The Open Force Field Consortium Advisory Board met on November 18, 2020. The minutes are summarized as follows:

The Open Free Energy Consortium

  • K. Condic-Jurkic and J. Chodera presented an overview about ‘The Open Free Energy Consortium’.
  • This new endeavor would be managed by a new overaching entity, which would act as a home for software scientists and other core folks.
  • We hope that having this organization would make the current type of work we are doing easier, and simpler to expand. Also, it would allow us much more flexibility with a remote/international workforce.
  • OpenFE would be independent from OpenFF, and with different goals, but would also share organizational staff and possibilly engineering/scientific efforts.

Industry-led benchmarking studies

  • G. Tresadern presented updates about Industry-led benchmarking studies.