About the CDK Category

Use this Category for discussions on the Cell Development Kit (CDK)–the software tools designed to support the design and analysis of synthetic cells.

How to use this category:

:bug: Bug reports

  • Functions not working as expected? Tag with bug

  • What you did [include example lines that you ran].

  • Include any relevant error messages that you’re seeing.

  • Some context – for example something like “Running conventional PURE analysis and want to export kinetics data. This can be found in Cell X of jupyter notebook <link to notebook>

  • A screenshot of relevant variables [like: A screenshot of your dataframe df here would be also beneficial to know what format you’re in. ]

  • What you did to try to resolve it yourself and what you dont understand or think is the problem

:light_bulb: New features

  • Ideas for new analysis functions or tools? Tag with feature-request

  • Describe what biological problem you’re trying to solve

:red_question_mark: Coding help

  • Need help writing code or using CDK functions? Tag with question

  • No coding question is too basic - we all started somewhere!

:speech_balloon: Sharing scripts

  • Created a useful analysis or automation? Tag with discussion

  • Share your code to help others with similar experiments

Remember: The best tools come from community feedback. Don’t hesitate to point out even small improvements - they help everyone!