As a molecular modeler, sharing results and building your identity in the research community can be challenging. Email attachments, file transfers, and scattered publication links are common pain points. If you’ve ever felt the frustration of explaining where your latest work lives or how to collaborate efficiently with others, SAMSON Connect’s public profile feature might be what you’ve been waiting for.
On SAMSON Connect, you can now create a detailed public profile and use it as a hub for your identity and scientific output. Here’s how and why you might want to take a few minutes to set yours up.
What you can do with your profile
Your public profile isn’t just a name and avatar. You can:
- Choose a handle – like a username, it becomes part of your personalized URL. Useful and easy to share.
- Write a biography up to 20,000 characters long – that’s more than enough for your background, motivations, publications, and current projects.
- Add links to your networks – GitHub, ResearchGate, LinkedIn, even X (formerly Twitter). This makes it easier for collaborators to find your work and stay connected.
Your profile can serve as a personal landing page for your research activity within SAMSON. Whether you’re sharing documents, running cloud jobs with tools like AlphaFold and GROMACS, or co-developing extensions, your profile helps others discover and trust your work.
Enabling visibility when it matters
Making your profile public is optional, but highly recommended, especially if you:
- Collaborate across institutions or research teams.
- Supervise or mentor students and want a central place to share what you are working on.
- Repeat the painful task of introducing yourself to new team members or contributors.
With public visibility, your profile is easily accessible to collaborators, making it a ready reference of your ongoing and past activity on the platform. You can showcase documents, jobs, group memberships – everything tied to your molecular design workflow.
Quick setup steps
- Login to SAMSON Connect
- Click your User menu > Profile
- Edit your information, biography (Markdown supported), links, and handle
You don’t need to complete everything at once. Even a short intro and a few links can already help others find and connect with you more easily inside the SAMSON ecosystem.
Over time, your profile becomes a record of how you interact with others and what projects you’ve been part of—something you don’t typically get just from publishing a paper.
To explore more about what you can do with your profile and other collaborative features like groups and document sharing, visit the full documentation page: https://documentation.samson-connect.net/users/latest/collaboration/.
SAMSON and all SAMSON Extensions are free for non-commercial use. You can download SAMSON at https://www.samson-connect.net.