We are happy to announce the oxDNA workshop 2026 at Arizona State University in February 16th - 20th . It will be a three day conference followed by a two-day hackathon of coding up new features in oxDNA and associated tools, as well as tutorials on its usage:
sulcgroup.github.io/oxdnaworkshop/
Our modeling platform finds "minimal assembly kit", the smallest number of cubic shaped DNA origami blocks, interacting with single-stranded overhangs, that are needed to reliably assemble into target prescribed 3D shape. To demonstrate of our platform we build Menger cube (1.9 GDa) fractal:
and it can also be used to design dynamic reconfigurable structures, using "cube displacement" reaction, a 3D analogue of the often-used DNA strand displacement used for molecular computing:
Thank you @mskcancercenter.bsky.social for highlighting our work on #viralmimicry in our genome, its evolution, the selective forces on it, and its potential role in cancer.
A great years long collaborative effort with @petrsulc.bsky.social, @daniel-decarvalho.bsky.social, & many great colleagues!
Benjamin D. Greenbaum
The work has occupied a large fraction of my lab for past two years, included both huge modeling effort (by students/postdocs J Evans, M Sample S Roy, M Matthies) and experiments (H Liu and T Diep) We also worked iwth J Hihath and Y Ke's lab for help with carbon nanotube scaffolding
The platform can also be used to make crystals, such us the Sponge crystal:
