Community Web Portal for Open Collaboration in the Martini Force Field Initiative

Community Web Portal for Open Collaboration in the Martini Force Field Initiative | bioRxiv Skip to main content Home About Submit ALERTS / RSS Search for this keyword Advanced Search New Results Community Web Portal for Open Collaboration in the Martini Force Field Initiative View ORCID Profile Daniel P. Ramirez-Echemendia , View ORCID Profile Luís Borges-Araújo , View ORCID Profile Chelsea M. Brown , View ORCID Profile Riccardo Alessandri , View ORCID Profile Siewert J. Marrink , View ORCID Profile Paulo C. T. Souza , View ORCID Profile D. Peter Tieleman doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.27.701988 Daniel P. Ramirez-Echemendia 1 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary , Calgary, AB, Canada Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site ORCID record for Daniel P. Ramirez-Echemendia Luís Borges-Araújo 2 Laboratoire de Biologie, et Modélisation de la Cellule, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyo n, Lyon, France Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site ORCID record for Luís Borges-Araújo Chelsea M. Brown 3 Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen , Groningen, The Netherlands Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site ORCID record for Chelsea M. Brown Riccardo Alessandri 4 Department of Chemical Engineering, KU Leuven , Leuven, Belgium Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site ORCID record for Riccardo Alessandri Siewert J. Marrink 3 Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen , Groningen, The Netherlands Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site ORCID record for Siewert J. Marrink Paulo C. T. Souza 2 Laboratoire de Biologie, et Modélisation de la Cellule, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyo n, Lyon, France Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site ORCID record for Paulo C. T. Souza D. Peter Tieleman 5 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary , Calgary, AB, Canada Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site ORCID record for D. Peter Tieleman For correspondence: tieleman{at}ucalgary.ca Abstract Full Text Info/History Metrics Supplementary material Data/Code Preview PDF A bstract The Martini coarse-grained force field is widely used for biomolecular simulations by a large and rapidly expanding community worldwide. Over time, the development of Martini parameters, tools, and documentation has become increasingly dispersed across numerous research groups, leading to fragmentation and making it challenging for users and developers to keep track of the latest models, software, and best practices. Consequently, the development of Martini as a genuinely community-driven process has grown into a bottleneck. In response, the Martini Force Field Initiative (MFFI) has been established as an open-science effort to coordinate and support the collaborative development of all Martini resources. Here, we introduce the MFFI web portal, a platform designed around five core pillars: (i) avoiding reliance on a single group or local server; (ii) minimizing long-term maintenance overhead; (iii) reducing technical barriers for contributions; (iv) providing a unified home for parameters, tools, tutorials, example workflows, and research outputs; and (v) enabling timely dissemination of updates to the community. To achieve this, we use Quarto to generate a static website authored in Markdown, lowering the technical barrier to making contributions, and serverless architectures on Amazon Web Services for scalable, event-triggered backend operations. The source code is hosted in a public GitHub repository under an MIT license, with automated deployment via GitHub Actions and a contribution model based on pull requests for quality control. This design creates a sustainable, low-maintenance, and collaborative infrastructure that consolidates Martini resources and supports transparency. More broadly, our design exemplifies a transferable pattern for building open, community-oriented platforms for molecular modeling and computational science. Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Footnotes daniel.ramirezecheme{at}ucalgary.ca tieleman{at}ucalgary.ca https://github.com/Martini-Force-Field-Initiative/Martini-Force-Field-Initiative.github.io Funder Information Declared Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, https://ror.org/01h531d29 Canada Research Chairs, https://ror.org/0517h6h17 Digital Research Alliance of Canada, https://ror.org/010r6td27 KU Leuven , STG/24/070 European Research Council , 101053661 COMP-O-CELL French National Center for Scientific Research Pôle Scientifique de Modélisation Numérique Copyright The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY 4.0 International license . 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