Molass Library Essence#
Molass Library is a rewrite of MOLASS which is a tool for the analysis of SEC-SAXS experiment data currently hosted at Photon Factory and SPring-8, Japan. It is designed for scripting in Jupyter notebooks, thereby attaining greater flexibility compared to the predecessor thanks to the diversity of Python ecosystem.
This document describes the theoretical essence of the library, meaning that we will provide brief entries on each key point rather than exploring every subject in depth. Many topics are still under investigation, and it is more important for readers to be able to quickly try these ideas and see for themselves how they work than to present our elaborate but not yet fully established results.
You can read the chapters of the left sidebar in order. Otherwise, glance over the contents or use the search box to find what you are interested in.
As you proceed, you may also find the following resources helpful:
Molass Library Tutorial on practical usage, for beginners
Molass Technical Report on techincal details, for advanced users
Molass Library Reference on function reference, for coding
Molass Library Repository on source code, for implementation
To join the community, see also:
Molass Developer’s Handbook for maintenance, for developers.
Acknowledgements#
Parts of this tutorial were created with the assistance of GitHub Copilot.