Continued Development and Maintenance of the UltraScan Software

UltraScan 软件的持续开发和维护

• 批准号: 9973635
• 负责人: Emre H. Brookes
• 金额: $ 29.31万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9973635
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Project Summary/Abstract We propose to continue development and support for the UltraScan-III (US3) software suite and develop new code and methods to address challenging biomedical research questions that can be solved with the latest instruments available for analytical ultracentrifugation and at beamlines for small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering experiments (SAXS/SANS) experiments. UltraScan is a comprehensive toolkit for the analysis of data from hydrodynamic experiments and simulations. Such experiments include analytical ultracentrifugation, SAXS/SANS, as well as bead modeling simulations. Support for this project will assure continued availability of a mature multi-platform analysis suite with important and unique capabilities not found in any other software packages. Chief among them are tight integration of supercomputing capabilities, LIMS support for collaboration, and specialized analysis routines. US3 enjoys widespread use in the AUC and SAXS/SANS communities, and offers the most robust optimization and simulation algorithms available, resulting in unmatched detail. UltraScan provides the highest throughput, a flexible, modern GUI, and a comprehensive list of analysis routines. Proposed developments include automated data acquisition and analysis workflows, improvements in the fitting of floating data, improved two-dimensional grids, support for density distribution analysis critical for the accurate characterization and quantification of viral vectors, lipid nanoparticles loaded with cancer drugs or nucleic acids, and other vectors used for the delivery of medicines or CRISPR technology.

项目概要/摘要 我们建议继续开发和支持 UltraScan-III (US3) 软件套件，并开发新的 解决具有挑战性的生物医学研究问题的代码和方法，这些问题可以用最新的技术解决 可用于分析超速离心以及小角度 X 射线和中子束线的仪器 散射实验（SAXS/SANS）实验。 UltraScan 是一个用于分析的综合工具包 来自流体动力学实验和模拟的数据。此类实验包括分析超速离心、 SAXS/SANS，以及珠子建模模拟。对该项目的支持将确保持续可用 成熟的多平台分析套件，具有任何其他软件所没有的重要且独特的功能 包。其中最主要的是超级计算能力的紧密集成、LIMS 对 协作和专门的分析例程。 US3 在 AUC 和 SAXS/SANS 中得到广泛使用 社区，并提供最强大的优化和模拟算法，从而 无与伦比的细节。 UltraScan 提供最高的吞吐量、灵活、现代的 GUI 和全面的列表 分析例程。拟议的开发包括自动化数据采集和分析工作流程， 改进了浮动数据的拟合，改进了二维网格，支持密度分布 分析对于病毒载体、脂质纳米颗粒的准确表征和定量至关重要 与癌症药物或核酸，以及用于递送药物或 CRISPR 技术的其他载体。