Eighth coding week!
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.. post:: August 02 2021
   :author: Sajag Swami
   :tags: google
   :category: gsoc

Welcome to the ninth weekly check-in. I'll be sharing my progress for the eighth week of coding.

What did you do this week?
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#. Updated `PR #452`_: Had an extra meeting with the mentors in which we fine-tuned the molecular module and optimised the code to make it more pythonic.

#. I was able to generate vertices and triangles for Solvent Excluded Surfaces (SES) by using a bioconda package called `msms`_. It's based on `this paper`_ by Michel F. Sanner, Arthur J. Olson & Jean-Claude Spehner. The vertices and triangles were then sent to surface actor to generate a surface.

	 .. figure:: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/65067354/128756004-553d1880-b6e1-4a43-99fa-5bd6a2ee70d4.png
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	    SES surface generated via msms and surface actor

#. Added my GSoC blogs to the FURY blogs directory. (`PR #475`_)

Other goals will be decided in the meeting with mentors.

What is coming up next week?
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#. Research about recent papers having good (fast) algorithms to create the molecular surfaces.
#. Create tutorials to explain how to use molecular module.

Did you get stuck anywhere?
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No.

.. _PR #452: https://github.com/fury-gl/fury/pull/452
.. _msms: https://anaconda.org/bioconda/msms
.. _this paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291097-0282%28199603%2938%3A3%3C305%3A%3AAID-BIP4%3E3.0.CO%3B2-Y
.. _PR #475: https://github.com/fury-gl/fury/pull/475

``Au Revoir!``
