nanobase.org

Structural DNA nanotechnology has produced an enormous number of designed nanostructures, but for years there was nowhere central to actually find them — designs lived in supplementary files, personal hard drives, and one-off lab websites, in a dozen incompatible formats.

nanobase.org is a searchable, browsable archive where a design is uploaded once — with an image, its native design file, an optional interactive 3D view, and metadata like experimental conditions or a literature reference — and made reusable by anyone. Built-in conversion tools translate designs into common simulation-ready formats (including oxDNA and PDB), so a structure deposited by one lab can be picked up and simulated, edited in oxView, or extended by another with minimal friction.

My work here fits into the same ecosystem as oxView and oxCloud: making nanobase a first-class part of the simulate → visualize → share pipeline described in the OxView/oxCloud/nanobase paper.