Examples gallery

[richardjgowers]

A good addition to the homepage would be a list of examples, probably best presented as ipython notebooks. These could be hosted on this site, or could be links to other sites. This would probably sit under the basic example and tutorial links on the left hand side.

[orbeckst]

Good idea. Please add suggestions.

• PSAnalysis Tutorial
• Flows (streamline visualization)
• many of the existing MDAnalysis.analysis modules

[orbeckst]

papers citing MDAnalysis from Google Scholar.

[orbeckst]

See also mailing list threads on the

• users list
• developers list

[richardjgowers]

I'm going to try and put together a short notebook for all the polymer tools:

https://github.com/richardjgowers/persistence_length_tutorial/blob/master/tutorial.ipynb

[richardjgowers]

So it looks like the math in my notebook doesn't work, and github doesn't like rendering long notebooks either, so it might be smarter to convert them to markdown

[orbeckst]

Link through nbviewer?

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Am Oct 1, 2015 um 14:32 schrieb Richard Gowers notifications@github.com:

So it looks like the math in my notebook doesn't work, and github doesn't like rendering long notebooks either, so it might be smarter to convert them to markdown

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[orbeckst]

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/richardjgowers/persistence_length_tutorial/blob/master/tutorial.ipynb looks fine.

[richardjgowers]

Yeah I think repo hosted on github and rendered with nbviewer looks like the best solution

[philipwfowler]

Maybe a more visual way would be to link to posters in e.g. FigShare (and then encourage posters to put in FigShare)?

[orbeckst]

I can't see why not both!

[philipwfowler]

I've had a couple of papers where MDAnalysis has been vital.

(1) Jefferys E, Sansom MSP, Fowler PW^ Visualising large three-component lipid bilayers that phase separate and undulate. (2014) RSC Faraday Discussion 169 209-223 http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3fd00131h

Here it is the "gateway drug" since it enables me to use scikit-image on simulations of phase-separating lipid bilayers. Example code here
https://github.com/philipwfowler/fd169-image-processing-example.git

(2) Fowler PW, Orwick-Rydmark M, Radestock S, Solcan N, Dijkman P, Lyons JA, Kwok J, Caffrey M, Watts A, Forrest LR and Newstead S. Gating topology of the proton coupled oligopeptide symporters. (2015) Structure 23 290-301 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2014.12.012

Here I wrote a (very simple) MDAnalysis script to map a (published) rotamer library of MTSSL spin labels onto two positions in this membrane transporter so we could try and compare directly to DEER data. The rotamer library is the same one as used in the MMM package that experimentalists use, but crucially allowed me to apply it to a whole trajectory rather than one PDB at a time...

The paper was featured on the cover:
http://www.cell.com/structure/issue?pii=S0969-2126%2814%29X0014-6

And the code (made much more professional by Oli) ended up in the MDAnalysis
https://github.com/MDAnalysis/RotamerConvolveMD

(3) Oh, and one in the pipeline that is about to be submitted on estimating the bending modulus (stiffness) of lipid bilayers by calculating the power spectrum (hello numpy.fft) of the height fluctuations of the membrane.

[richardjgowers]

Awesome thanks, I think I'm putting this together in Nov, so it looks like we can have an entire weird and wonderful Lipid analysis section

[orbeckst]

Examples of using HOLE:

• HOLE module
• Using HOLE in MDAnalysis with order parameters