Welcome to my GSoC Blog!#
Hi all! I’m Sajag Swami, a sophomore at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. This summer, I will be working on adding a new functionality to FURY which shall enable users to visualise various types of proteins via different representations like Richardson aka Ribbon diagrams and molecular surface diagrams. As a part of my stretch goals, I’ll try to expand protein diagrams via other representations including:
Stick
Ball and stick
Wire
Pipes and Planks
Sphere
What did you do during the Community Bonding Period?#
I had weekly meetings with my mentors and other core team members. In the first meeting I got acquainted with the team members and learnt about the organisation and its goal/vision. In the later meetings we discussed about various representations of proteins and how to go about implementing them in FURY. We discussed about various libraries which can be used to parse PDB and PDBx files. I made a document for the same to list pros and cons of using each library. I worked upon my previous PR too during the community bonding period and fixed its docstring syntax.
As my college ended early courtesy covid, I had extra time during which I experimented and learnt more about PDB and PDBx files - the details they contain and how to parse them. A small backbone visualisation of 1mb0 protein made on FURY by extracting coordinate data of its alpha carbons:
What is coming up next week?#
I have two major goals for the next week:
Make an actor for the space filling model of the proteins and make PR for the same which will also include the unit tests and a small tutorial for the users.
Try to understand the documentation of vtkProteinRibbonFilter which will prove beneficial in generating Ribbon diagrams.
Au Revoir!