2021-04-05 Core Developers Meeting notes

Date

Apr 5, 2021

Participants

  • @Jeffrey Wagner

  • @Pavan Behara

  • @Simon Boothroyd

  • @David Dotson

  • @Matt Thompson

  • @Lily Wang

Discussion topics

Notes

Notes

SB

  • Refactoring fragmenter

  • Working with JH on bespokefit replacing

  • Opened lots of issues for toolkit bugs

    • Toolkit loads FFs from subfolder

  • Mostly science other than that

MT

  • Toolkit support

  • Getting Vanderbilt’s Foyer PR progressed – Would anyone here be interested in using mBuild/Foyer?

  • Worked on OFF System <--> ParmEd conversions – Other than rounding errors, everything looks pretty good. I don’t want to encourage broad use of this, but it’s important to have it in the interim.

DD

JW

  • Working on preparing for 0.9.2

    • Currently last blocking issue is the RDKit AddHs PR

  • Biopolymer working session w/ LW + PB

  • Biopolymer SMARTS searching + caching. – T4 parameterizaiton down from 40 minutes to 40 seconds

  • Updated OFFTK for RDKit 2021.03 release – Broke some cases of nitrogen stereochemistry

  • Iván Pulido will be joining project – I’m onboarding him today. He’ll be working with us for 3 months on biopolymer support.

PB

  • WBO work –

    • Trying to understand RMSD profiles alongside torsion energy profile

  • Synced up with SB and DM on future of WBO work. Will be somewhat refocusing on working with Hyesu.

  • Looking at overrepresentation of torsion parameters correlated with high ddE

  • Joined polymer FF working sessions

LW

  • Some unrelated things – Joined polymer working sessions, where we tried to take a SMIRNOFF-parameterized system and make a residue-based SMIRNOFF FF given a general backbone/residue SMARTS. Ran into some issues, like residue branching complications, still working on those.Also vdW atom combination (currently averaging)

  • Working with a polymer chemist to understand what cases aren’t covered by normal tools. I’m making progress on this but running into QCFractal authorization issues. “Error 41 from HTTP headers”.

    • SB – I think I encountered the same thing. IIRC, the code snippet I was using was intended for use in a notebook, and JH had to help me use it in a script.

 

  • 0.9.2 release

    • SB – Let’s resolve AddHs functionality before we cut 0.9.2

    • Also possibly resolve since it’s a fundamental thing which is inaccurate/improperly specced, and because it will prevent System tests from working correctly.

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Action items

Decisions