This website is a virtual meeting place and hub for all users of computing for structural biology research in Australia. This is a collective community effort. It can be what we make it!
Getting involved
News
17M protein structures added to the AlphaFold Database
An Australian researcher has recently contributed 17 million protein predictions to the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, which will have a transformative impact on the international fight to combat antimicrobial resistance.
Foundations of protein structure training module now available!
A module added to the training material made available by EMBL-EBI. Module development was a collaboration between the ASBC community, BioCommons, and EMBL-EBI Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe).
Community talk series for 2026
Starting this year, speakers from across the structural biology community will be invited to present their work at the regular community meetings. The current plan is for there to be five of these meetings every year.
Next meeting is on July 29th
All meeting dates and speakers
| Date | Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| March 11th | Biswa Prasanna Mishra (Griffith University) |
Molecular Characterisation of the Bacillus subtilis SpbK antiphage defence system |
| May 20th | Cameron Gilchrist (Korea Basic Science Institute Ochang-center) |
Multiple protein structure alignment with FoldMason |
| July 29th | Roland Dunbrack (Fox Chase Cancer Center) |
Structural bioinformatics and AlphaFold modeling of the human kinome and its interactions |
| September 16th | Tom Goddard (UCSF) |
Predicting atomic structures using OpenFold 3 in ChimeraX |
| November 12th | TBA | TBA |
Acknowledgements
This community represents a joint effort by people at multiple Australian institutions. A list of contributors is available here.
