Astrochemical Modeling Graphical User Interface

The goal of this project is to develop a graphical user interface for our scientific simulation software called UCLCHEM. The framework contains routines that simulate astrochemistry, the field of the formation and destruction of molecules in space. This simulation framework is now mostly used via the command line interface, with users having to write their own analysis scripts for even the most basic things. The goal of this project is to provide a much needed graphical interface on top of the simulation framework. This user interface could be ran interactively directly on the users pc, used to present scientific results directly online or run on a research groups cluster to enable scientific collaboration.

The MVP would be a stand-alone graphical user interface that helps the user interact with existing scientific results in a web interface or run scientific models locally on their laptop and interact with them. There is flexibility during the project to integrate existing advanced analysis methods with interpretable ML models or dimensionality reduction methods, create more flexible ways to use the code, or focus more on the software infrastructure and containerization.