<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><span style="font-weight:400" class="">Although I have not worked for any large scale project till date, I would love to contribute to some. I am interested in the GSoC, and would like to contribute to your code. I am particularly interested in the project relating to </span><b class="">Molecular Dynamics </b>as I found it quite interesting.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">Please let me know what other stuff do I need to be familiar with for contributing to this project. Also, do let me know about some groundwork that I should do before starting this project.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>I'll let Marcus Hanwell comment more. The main goals of the MD project are outlined in the wiki - that there are many MD projects (OpenMM, GROMACS, Amber, CHARMM, LAMMPS) that all have different file formats (sigh). We'd like to add support for visualizing MD calculations, but also handling a timeline (e.g., go to frame 105 = 10.5 ps into the simulation), analysis, etc.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>You'll definitely want to build Avogadro2 from source:</div><div><a href="http://wiki.openchemistry.org/Build" class="">http://wiki.openchemistry.org/Build</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>You'll want to look at the application instructions:</div><div><a href="http://wiki.openchemistry.org/Applying_to_GSoC" class="">http://wiki.openchemistry.org/Applying_to_GSoC</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>And as part of the application, you'll want to submit a small pull request to AvogadroLibs:</div><div><a href="https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadrolibs" class="">https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadrolibs</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Hope that helps,</div><div>-Geoff</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div>---</div><div>Prof. Geoffrey Hutchison</div><div>Department of Chemistry</div><div>University of Pittsburgh</div><div>tel: (412) 648-0492</div><div><a href="mailto:geoffh@pitt.edu" class="">email: geoffh@pitt.edu</a></div><div>twitter: @ghutchis</div><div>web: <a href="https://hutchison.chem.pitt.edu/" class="">https://hutchison.chem.pitt.edu/</a></div></div></body></html>