actinrings 1.1.1

Python package for the equilibrium analysis of the paper "Constriction of actin rings by passive crosslinker".

Supporting python modules for equilibrium analysis in "Constriction of actin rings by passive crosslinkers"

Python package for the equilibrium analysis of Ref. 1.

It includes a module implementing the equilibrium model, as well as a module for creating plots with this model, as well as plots from finite element calculations output from a related package (elastic-rings) and plots from Monte Carlo simulations from another related package (ActinRingsMC.jl).

Some example scripts for creating plots are provided in the scripts directory.

Installation

This package was developed and used on Linux. It is available on the PyPI respository. It can be installed by running

pip install actinrings

If you are not using a virtual environment, the --user flag may be used instead to install it locally to the user. To install directly from this repository, run

python -m build
pip install dist/actinrings-[current version]-py3-none-any.whl

To run the above, it may be necessary to update a few packages:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel

For more information on building and installing python packages, see the documentation from the Python Packaging Authority.

References

[1] A. Cumberworth and P. R. ten Wolde, Constriction of actin rings by passive crosslinkers, arXiv:2203.04260 [physics.bio-ph].

Links

Python Packaging Authority

elastic-rings

ActinRingsMC.jl

Replication package Ref. 1