Funding

We are grateful for financial support from the following organizations, which have supported MDAnalysis either directly through grants or indirectly by funding MDAnalysis contributors.

MDAnalysis is fiscally sponsored project of NumFOCUS, a nonprofit organization that supports open-source scientific computing projects. Their support allows us to sustain our development, infrastructure, and outreach efforts.

MDAnalysis has also received Small Development Grants (SDG) from NumFOCUS:

SDG Round 3 (2024): Customizable and automated scientific molecular rendering with Molecular Nodes (Personnel: @yuxuanzhuang, @BradyAJohnston)
SDG Round 2 (2023): Unified and comprehensive documentation and learning resources for MDAnalysis (Personnel: @jennaswa, @namiroues, @micaela-matta, @orbeckst, @IAlibay, @lilyminium)
SDG Round 2 (2022): Improving the organization and content of MDAnalysis teaching materials (Personnel: @micaela-matta, @pgbarletta)
SDG Round 1 (2020): Periodic boundary handling and on the fly transformations
SDG Round 2 (2018): MDAnalysis tutorial and hackathon
SDG Round 1 (2017): Widening platform availability for MDAnalysis: Full Python 3 Support

If you like MDAnalysis and want to support our mission, please consider making a donation to help sustain our work.

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)

MDAnalysis has been supported by the Essential Open Source for Science (EOSS) program from the CZI Donor-Advised Fund (DAF), an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation (funder DOI 10.13039/100014989)

EOSS5, 2022-253062 (2022): MDAnalysis: Outreach and Project Manager (Personnel: @IAlibay, @jennaswa, @micaela-matta (PI), @orbeckst, @richardjgowers)
EOSS4, DAF2021-237663, DOI https://doi.org/10.37921/426590wiobus (2021): MDAnalysis: Faster, Extensible Molecular Analysis for Reproducible Science (Personnel: @fiona-naughton, @hmacdope, @IAlibay, @ianmkenney, @lilyminium, @orbeckst (PI), @richardjgowers)

Google

The following contributors were sponsored to work on MDAnalysis through the Google Summer of Code program.

2026: @jauy123, @kunjsinha, @PardhavMaradani
2025: @jpkrowe, @nilay-v3rma, @PardhavMaradani, @yuyuan871111
2024: @ljwoods2, @lunamorrow, @talagayev
2023: @marinegor, @xhgchen
2022: @aya9aladdin, @BFedder
2021: @ojeda-e, @orionarcher
2020: @cbouy, @hmacdope, @yuxuanzhuang
2019: @NinadBhat
2018: @ayushsuhane, @davidercruz
2017: @utkbansal
2016: @fiona-naughton, @jdetle

The following technical writers were sponsored to work on MDAnalysis through the Google Season of Docs program.

2019: @lilyminium

National Science Foundation

The US National Science Foundation has supported work on or related to MDAnalysis

NSF CSSI award, 2311372 (2023—2026) Elements: Streaming Molecular Dynamics Simulation Trajectories for Direct Analysis: Applications to Sub-Picosecond Dynamics in Microsecond Simulations (@HeydenLabASU (PI), @orbeckst (co-PI), MDAnalysis Personnel: @orbeckst @hmacdope @yuxuanzhuang @jaclark5 @IAlibay)
NSF DIBBS award, ACI-1443054 (2014–2021): CIF21 DIBBs: Middleware and High Performance Analytics Libraries for Scalable Data Science (MDAnalysis Personnel: @orbeckst)

The following students were sponsored to work on MDAnalysis through the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program as part of NSF award ACI-1443054:

2021: @ALescoulie, @edisj
2020: @edisj
2019: @nawtrey
2018: @hfmull
2017: @kaceyaurum
2016: @rbrtdlgd
2015: @ianmkenney

Outreachy

The following contributors were sponsored to work on MDAnalysis through the Outreachy program.

2024: @adetutudeborah
2022: @umak1106

Station1

The following contributors were sponsored to work on MDAnalysis through the Station1 Frontiers Fellowship program.

2023: @jong9559, @KarenBekhazi