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Self-assembled Peptide-p-electron Supramolular Polymers: FAIR Data and Student Training

Feb 8, 2023
Undergraduate researcher Anna Stouffer (front) working on pi-conjugated peptide synthesis with mentor Calvin Hong (back).
Undergraduate researcher Anna Stouffer (front) working on pi-conjugated peptide synthesis with mentor Calvin Hong (back).

Broad dissemination. All computational codes have been hosted on GitHub (https://github.com/), simulation trajectories on the Materials Data Facility (https://materialsdatafacility.org/) and Zenodo(http://zenodo.org), and a project webpage provides information about the team and research outcomes (https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/dmref/).

Graduate mentoring. Graduate researchers Sayak Panda, Jessie Dibble and Taein Lee at JHU, Kirill Shmilovich and Nick Herringer at UChicago, Yifan Yao at UIUC, and postdoc Hyun-June Jang at JHU interact with all project personnel, receive mentorship and training in multi-disciplinary research. Kirill Shmilovich’s training in data science enabled him to secure a competitive Summer 2021 internship within the AI division of Bosch.

Undergraduate and high school research. At Chicago, undergraduates Melody Leung and Rohan Kapoor were trained in molecular modeling calculations and machine learning techniques. At JHU, undergraduate Anna Stouffer became familiar with multi-step manual peptide synthesis techniques and basic spectroscopic methods to characterize peptide nanomaterials (see image at right).

Example of sharing of simulation and experimental data via Zenodo.org including minting of a permanent DOI and sharing under FAIR (findable-accessible-interoperable-reusable) principles

Authors

J. Tovar, H. Katz (Johns Hopkins U.) A. Ferguson (U. Chicago)

Additional Materials

U.S. National Science Foundation and NSF DMREF, Materials for Our Future

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation Award No. 2015237. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation. This site is maintained collaboratively by principal investigators with NSF DMREF awards, independent of the NSF.