The OpenBind initiative

I’ll open the post on the OpenBind initiative with photos from my visit last year to Korea which was timed to coincide with the cherry blossoms (this meant that the customary April Fools post was from Seoul). Things did not start well on the day that I took these photos (having lined up the first shot for the day it became abundantly clear that the camera’s battery was still being charged at the hotel) and I wondered whether Great Leader’s grandson might have labelled me as a dotard. Fortunately, Seoul’s Metro is excellent and I was still able to get some photos at Huiujeong-ro Cherry Blossom Road and Yangjaecheon Stream.In this post I’ll be taking a look at the OpenBind initiative and here's a summary of the concept. I certainly see great value in having large quantities of this type of data (affinity measurements with X-ray crystal structures for the corresponding protein-ligand complexes) to the drug discovery and chemical biology communities. The grating-coupled interferometry…