Jacob West-Roberts — personal site

A small, dependency-free static site. Each main route is its own HTML document:

• / — home and one real predicted structure
• /about/ — brief bio
• /projects/ — Sharur, giant proteins, Talea, ELSA, and Gaia
• /publications/ — Google Scholar-backed papers
• /contact/ — email and mailto contact form
• /art/ — older browser experiments

There is no single-page router and no framework. Normal links load normal pages.

Local preview

npm run dev

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000/.

Google Scholar data

The papers page renders data/scholar.json. Refresh it with:

python3 scripts/update_scholar.py

Google Scholar does not provide a supported public-profile API. The refresh script makes one low-frequency request to Jacob's public profile, validates the response, and atomically replaces the checked-in snapshot. A scheduled GitHub Action runs it weekly. The site never depends on Scholar at page-load time, so rate limiting or an outage there does not break the publication list.

Each title links to its Scholar detail record. Citation counts with a cited-by record link directly to that Scholar result.

Structure

The home page loads one compact C-alpha trace: data/structures/protein-fragment.json.

The model is drawn with the Canvas 2D API. Desktop gets a slow, capped 18-frame-per-second rotation. Phones, reduced-motion devices, and low-power machines get a static drawing that rotates only when dragged. Mobile also caps the pixel ratio at 1 and draws every other point. The raw structure payload is about 75 KB.

To prepare another trace from a Protenix mmCIF:

python3 scripts/prepare_structure.py MODEL.cif data/structures/model.json \
  --id model --label "Protein label" --segment "chunk 001"

Checks

npm run validate
npm run build

The older generative pieces remain standalone pages and are intentionally kept off the main site's rendering path.