NanoVer Fundamentals

We provide a set of Jupyter notebook tutorials that introduce NanoVer as a framework for performing interactive molecular dynamics simulations, and the fundamental concepts associated with the client-server architecture that NanoVer uses. These tutorials can be used in conjunction with the information in concepts to understand how NanoVer works and are found in the tutorials folder of the GitHub repository.

Here we give a summary of each tutorial:

• networking: A notebook that demonstrates how to connect to the server and decode its messages using just third party libraries for WebSocket and MessagePack.

• commands_and_state: A notebook that introduces the concepts of commands, and explains how NanoVer achieves synchronised multi-user interactive molecular simulations via the shared state dictionary.

• visualisations: A notebook that demonstrates how to change the visualisation of the interactive molecular simulation within the NanoVer iMD-VR client.