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The Roots of Bio‐Molecular Simulation: The Eight‐Week CECAM Workshop ‘Models for Protein Dynamics’ of 1976
Author(s) -
van Gunsteren Wilfred F.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
helvetica chimica acta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.74
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1522-2675
pISSN - 0018-019X
DOI - 10.1002/hlca.201800239
Subject(s) - futures studies , chemistry , promotion (chess) , library science , nanotechnology , engineering physics , engineering , computer science , political science , artificial intelligence , law , materials science , politics
This year, the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire (CECAM) celebrates its 50‐th anniversary. Founded in 1969 in Orsay near Paris, it later moved to Lyon and in 2008 to Lausanne. It is an organization devoted to the promotion of fundamental research on advanced computational methods and their application in condensed matter science. Its main vehicle to this end is the organization of workshops. The key role of an eight‐week workshop held forty‐three years ago, characterized by an open exchange of scientific ideas and a foresight regarding the topics relevant to a proper dynamic simulation of bio‐molecules such as proteins, is remembered, together with the issues discussed at the time. These are still relevant today.