Hello MDAnalysis Developers,
my name is Francesco Petrizzelli and I am a PhD candidate in Human Biology and Medical Genetics at Sapienza University in Rome.
I am currently working on my thesis with the supervision of the Bioinformatic Unit of CSS-Mendel Institute in Rome, where I gained experience in the use of molecular dynamics for the assessment of the functionality of genomic variants and their effects on protein stability and interaction.
Moreover, I am involved in a large computational study which aims to investigate the SARS-CoV2 Spike glycoprotein recognition pathway using advanced molecular dynamics techniques and taking advantage of HPC computational resources.
Thanks to this project, I had the opportunity to discover MDAnalysis which greatly helped me through the overall analytical process.
For this reason, I'm extremely interested in participating in your GSoC projects and contribute the development of MDAnalysis, with a particular focus on the Extend MDAnalysis Interoperability project [Project 4].
I just found out about this opportunity, so I hope there is still time to work on an issue and complete the application. I'll try to open a pull request as soon as possible.
Best regards,
Francesco Petrizzelli