This work implements Caspar-Klug Theory to generate high-quality, vectorized capsid cartoons in the browser and is the first online tool that provides comprehensive style customization, geometry, and SVG export of icosahedra and nets with different lattice structures.
- Run democapsid (v2.2.2): https://dnanto.github.io/democapsid/app.html.
npm run clean && \
npm run minify && \
npm run update && \
npm run zip && \
npm run tar- Negrón, D. A. (2021). Vectorized Capsid Rendering in the Browser with Capsid.js (p. 2020.12.02.408252). https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.02.408252
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- ASM Microbe 2022 @ DC
- Spring 2021 GMU SSB Student Research Day 2021 @ GMU
- Fall 2020 SSB Student Research Day 2020 @ GMU
- 5th place at Demosplash 2021 for the combined demo/intro category (https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=90296)
- Please comment on or cite the preprint at bioRxiv, which is Chapter 2 of the dissertation.
- This work previously went by the name "capsid.js" and is now "democapsid".
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