It would be great to expand the NumPy case studies with examples showing NumPy's role in some of the major scientific advances of the 2020s.
Potential case studies:
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JWST – detection of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere (WASP-39 b
NumPy was used in the extraction, reduction, and analysis of JWST observations leading to the detection.
References: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05269-w
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NANOGrav – evidence for a nanohertz gravitational-wave background
NumPy is part of the scientific Python stack used to analyze pulsar timing data and search for the gravitational-wave signal.
References: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/mrtaw-spj56)
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FlyWire – complete adult fruit-fly brain connectome
NumPy was used in analyses of a connectome containing more than 139,000 neurons and tens of millions of synapses.
References: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07968-y
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AlphaFold – protein structure prediction
AlphaFold uses NumPy within its data processing and inference stack. This could illustrate how NumPy supports modern computational biology and AI-driven scientific discovery.
References: https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphafold/tree/main
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Event Horizon Telescope – Sagittarius A*
NumPy is used throughout EHT imaging software involved in reconstructing the first image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This could serve as a follow-up to the existing M87 black-hole case study.
References: https://github.com/eventhorizontelescope/2022-D02-02
Suggested next steps for each candidate:
- Identify and connect with members of the research team who could provide quotes about NumPy’s role in the research and/or discovery.
- Write a case study for numpy.org of ~7,000 characters.
It would be great to expand the NumPy case studies with examples showing NumPy's role in some of the major scientific advances of the 2020s.
Potential case studies:
JWST – detection of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere (WASP-39 b
NumPy was used in the extraction, reduction, and analysis of JWST observations leading to the detection.
References: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05269-w
NANOGrav – evidence for a nanohertz gravitational-wave background
NumPy is part of the scientific Python stack used to analyze pulsar timing data and search for the gravitational-wave signal.
References: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/mrtaw-spj56)
FlyWire – complete adult fruit-fly brain connectome
NumPy was used in analyses of a connectome containing more than 139,000 neurons and tens of millions of synapses.
References: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07968-y
AlphaFold – protein structure prediction
AlphaFold uses NumPy within its data processing and inference stack. This could illustrate how NumPy supports modern computational biology and AI-driven scientific discovery.
References: https://github.com/google-deepmind/alphafold/tree/main
Event Horizon Telescope – Sagittarius A*
NumPy is used throughout EHT imaging software involved in reconstructing the first image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This could serve as a follow-up to the existing M87 black-hole case study.
References: https://github.com/eventhorizontelescope/2022-D02-02
Suggested next steps for each candidate: