Name: MDAnalysis
Description: Scientific Python library for the analysis of molecular dynamics simulations in biophysics, chemistry, materials sciences.
website: https://www.mdanalysis.org/
repository: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis
email: mdnalysis-devel@googlegroups.com (all developers)
mentors: Oliver Beckstein orbeckst@gmail.com (primary contact) and Richard Gowers (richardjgowers@gmail.com)
Project name: Make it easy for new users to analyze their data
Description: MDAnalysis is a Python library that provides an abstract and object-oriented interface to data from particle-based simulations (primarily molecular dynamics simulations), which are widely used for simulating diverse systems such as the interaction of drugs with biomolecules or new materials. MDAnalysis is widely used in the scientific community and is written by scientists for scientists. Feedback from our users indicates that they like using MDAnalysis but wished that the documentation were easier to read and had more examples. The docs for scikit-learn and the PyTorch tutorials are generally cited as excellent examples of documentation and, taking these as examples, we would like to improve our documentation to make it more accessible and more immediately useful for new users.
The list of projects and ideas for GSoD 2019 is maintained at https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/wiki/Google-Season-of-Docs.