2024-05-29 Thompson/Wagner Check-in meeting notes

Participants

  • @Matt Thompson

  • @Jeffrey Wagner

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General updates

  • JW –

    • IA told me that he’s temporarily put the SFE (+interchange integration?) stuff on pause while they work on replacing RG. This makes sense to me, just wanted to make sure you and I are on the same page.

      • MT – SFE and interchange integration are different things but highly intertwined, so I would assume they’re both on pause. I think there was a weird merge issue and some code that I remember writing isn’t there, leading to some errors. I think the remaining work is really straightforward but I don’t want to plunge ahead until IA has attention to give to it.

      • JW – Awesome. Agree with your decisionj.

    • I still need to organize biopolymer people meeting - there’s probably more they could coordinate on (polymer loading tricks, residue nomenclature, slow/painful steps, etc). I’ll send out a scheduling poll with you as a “nice to have”.

      • MT – Who are the scientists here?

      • JW – Hannah T, Patrick F, Anika F, maybe Chapin.

  • MT –

    • Interchange 0.3.27 is released: https://docs.openforcefield.org/projects/interchange/en/stable/releasehistory.html#id1

      • Re: The packmol thing - HT’s solution was a bit byzantine and went through OpenBabel. My code had a block where it tries RDKit and falls back to mdtraj, and I started considering falling back to openmm as a third option. And then I realized that all we need is the coords, so I just wrote a dumb parser using python+numpy to pull those.

      • DSlochower had a bug that I fixed last month but hadn’t released, so I released it (interchange.from_openmm/combine performs a cutoff check, and this had an overlooked corner case when the openmm component came from certain pathways. Fixed now.)

    • Big MDTraj release is coming this week. Improves support for py3.12, some bugfixes. Will pull trigger Thursday/Monday.

    • Would like to take June 26-July 5 as vacation

      • JW – Approved

Trello

https://trello.com/b/dzvFZnv4/infrastructure

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