Rob MacLeod and Dave Weinstein
With these meetings we hope to achieve the following goals
Below is a list of present list of participants in the NCRR project group, together with allocations of their effort to the NCRR:
Positions still to be filled include:
Role of graduate students: a question that came up at the meeting and frequently arises in groups with both research and development projects is the role of the graduate students. The concern is how best to reconcile the academic and research programs of the student with the more development based efforts of staff and the entire project. As has always been the case for the SCI group, students will be free to choose their research areas within reasonable bounds related to the source of their funding. There will be no assignments of projects to students, especially not to fulfill the development needs of the projects. The NCRR offers a wide array of opportunities for students under uniquely supportive conditions. We encourage students to discuss these possibilities with their advisors as early in their graduate studies as possible in order to establish the best possible match.
In order to make the meetings efficient, useful, and thus as attractive as possible, we propose the following organizational features:
The NCRR grant has 4 key areas in which we will pursue research and development:
Each of these has specific research aims, which are described in some detail in the proposal (soon to appear online in HTML, presently available in pdf format. Because the grant period will be three instead of five years, it is expected that we may reduce some aspect of these projects and an important part of the planning process will involve deciding which aims to pursue with high priority. Future meetings will include this discussion.
The development work will be firmly anchored to BioPSE and the other software tools we propose to create and disseminate. Specific plans already in place for the development effort are listed in Section 5.
Worth special emphasis are the topics of documentation and the web site. Because of the commitment to disseminate BioPSE, we have to develop documentation at the programmer and user levels and implement a documentation strategy from the start. This will be the topic of some of the first meetings.
The NCRR web site has more importance in this project than in many because it will be the main vehicle for distribution of BioPSE code and also the location of the data repository we are committed to preparing. We will also use the web to place all previous agenda and notes so that our remote partners (e.g., Dana Brooks and his students) and collaborators have the opportunity to follow progress and contribute to the discussion.
The schedule for the next month worth of meetings is as follows:
| Date | Topic | Person(s) |
| April 10 | Release schedule | Dave W. |
| April 17 | Documentation | Ted Dustman |
| April 24 | New field data structures | Eric Kuehne |
| April 31 | Web site | Erik Jorgenson |
Other topics to include in upcoming meetings include:
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