Normal mode analysis of biomolecular structures: functional mechanisms of membrane proteins

I Bahar, TR Lezon, A Bakan, IH Shrivastava - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
A polymer chain of N atoms enjoys 3N-6 internal degrees of freedom, which gives rise to
infinitely many conformations. Even a simple model of N) 100 atoms where bond lengths …

Role of conformational dynamics in the evolution of novel enzyme function

MA Maria-Solano, E Serrano-Hervás… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The free energy landscape concept that describes enzymes as an ensemble of differently
populated conformational sub-states in dynamic equilibrium is key for evaluating enzyme …

More bang for your buck: Improved use of GPU nodes for GROMACS 2018

C Kutzner, S Páll, M Fechner… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We identify hardware that is optimal to produce molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories on
Linux compute clusters with the GROMACS 2018 simulation package. Therefore, we …

GROMACS in the cloud: A global supercomputer to speed up alchemical drug design

C Kutzner, C Kniep, A Cherian… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We assess costs and efficiency of state-of-the-art high-performance cloud computing and
compare the results to traditional on-premises compute clusters. Our use case is atomistic …

Determination of alkali and halide monovalent ion parameters for use in explicitly solvated biomolecular simulations

IS Joung, TE Cheatham III - The journal of physical chemistry B, 2008 - ACS Publications
Alkali (Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+, and Cs+) and halide (F−, Cl−, Br−, and I−) ions play an important
role in many biological phenomena, roles that range from stabilization of biomolecular …

CHARMM additive all-atom force field for carbohydrate derivatives and its utility in polysaccharide and carbohydrate–protein modeling

O Guvench, SS Mallajosyula, EP Raman… - Journal of chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Monosaccharide derivatives such as xylose, fucose, N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc), N-
acetylgalactosamine (GlaNAc), glucuronic acid, iduronic acid, and N-acetylneuraminic acid …

GPU computing

JD Owens, M Houston, D Luebke… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The graphics processing unit (GPU) has become an integral part of today's mainstream
computing systems. Over the past six years, there has been a marked increase in the …

Good practices in free-energy calculations

A Pohorille, C Jarzynski, C Chipot - The Journal of Physical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
As access to computational resources continues to increase, free-energy calculations have
emerged as a powerful tool that can play a predictive role in a wide range of research areas …