In the meantime we got directions to get acquainted with the previous work by reading the article that was published on rigid-body DNA simulations by the Natural Computations team. In addition, we installed Autodesk Maya and a plugin for it called vHelix. These would be used throughout our work so it was important to start getting familiar with the environment.
We also had a group meeting on Friday, before meeting with the contact person from the team. In this meeting we set up the rest of the communications platforms that were to be used between the group. For instant-messaging purposes we chose to use Telegram, as it is easily accessed on smart phones, as well as computers and tablets. For work-related communications, Slack was chosen to be the main communication application and Trello as a "virtual post-it board" to e.g. help keep track of things that need to be done and their priority order.
For easy and well-organized file sharing we chose to use Google Drive, as it is also available on many platforms and it is simple to keep all the shared data organized through Drive. As for the blog, Blogspot (or Blogger) was chosen as it seemed to be a suitable choice with a straightforward interface and ease of use.
After the group meeting we met with Mr. Mohammed at the Aalto Computer Science building. We learned a bit more about DNA and the previous work, as well as about the way the soft-body simulation will be working. We talked about limiting the subject and our goal to only concern the simulation of the DNA double helices as soft bodies instead of rigid rods, as the schedule may be too tight for also concerning the probability of some double helices missing and so forth.
We concluded the meeting by deciding to next get better acquainted with vHelix and to try compiling the scaffold-routing code by ourselves using Visual Studio. A next meeting was set to take place on Friday the 9th of October in the project workshop room.
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