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JCC
2008
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Explicit ion, implicit water solvation for molecular dynamics of nucleic acids and highly charged molecules
: An explicit ion, implicit water solvent model for molecular dynamics was developed and tested with DNA and RNA simulations. The implicit water model uses the finite difference Po...
Ninad V. Prabhu, Manoranjan Panda, Qingyi Yang, Ki...
JCC
2008
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A self-organizing algorithm for molecular alignment and pharmacophore development
Abstract: We present a method for simultaneous three-dimensional (3D) structure generation and pharmacophorebased alignment using a self-organizing algorithm called Stochastic Prox...
Deepak Bandyopadhyay, Dimitris K. Agrafiotis
JCC
2008
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Molecular simulation of multistate peptide dynamics: A comparison between microsecond timescale sampling and multiple shorter tr
Abstract: Molecular dynamics simulations of the RN24 peptide, which includes a diverse set of structurally heterogeneous states, are carried out in explicit solvent. Two approaches...
Luca Monticelli, Eric J. Sorin, D. Peter Tieleman,...
JCC
2008
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An optimized initialization algorithm to ensure accuracy in quantum Monte Carlo calculations
: Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations require the generation of random electronic configurations with respect to a desired probability density, usually the square of the magnitu...
Daniel R. Fisher, David R. Kent IV, Michael T. Fel...
JCC
2008
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Efficient electronic integrals and their generalized derivatives for object oriented implementations of electronic structure cal
: For the new parallel implementation of electronic structure methods in ACES III (Lotrich et al., in preparation) the present state-of-the-art algorithms for the evaluation of ele...
Norbert Flocke, Victor Lotrich
JCC
2008
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Effects of spin-orbit coupling on magnetic properties of discrete and extended magnetic systems
: In accounting for the magnetic properties of discrete and extended compounds with unpaired spins, it is crucial to know the nature of their ground and low-lying excited states. I...
Dadi Dai, Hongjun Xiang, Myung-Hwan Whangbo
JCC
2008
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The implementation of a fast and accurate QM/MM potential method in Amber
Abstract: Version 9 of the Amber simulation programs includes a new semi-empirical hybrid QM/MM functionality. This includes support for implicit solvent (generalized Born) and for...
Ross C. Walker, Michael F. Crowley, David A. Case
JCC
2008
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An improved pairwise decomposable finite-difference Poisson-Boltzmann method for computational protein design
Abstract: Our goal is to develop accurate electrostatic models that can be implemented in current computational protein design protocols. To this end, we improve upon a previously ...
Christina L. Vizcarra, Naigong Zhang, Shannon A. M...
JCC
2008
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FACTS: Fast analytical continuum treatment of solvation
: An efficient method for calculating the free energy of solvation of a (macro)molecule embedded in a continuum solvent is presented. It is based on the fully analytical evaluation...
Urs Haberthür, Amedeo Caflisch
JCC
2008
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Fast procedure for reconstruction of full-atom protein models from reduced representations
: We introduce PULCHRA, a fast and robust method for the reconstruction of full-atom protein models starting from a reduced protein representation. The algorithm is particularly su...
Piotr Rotkiewicz, Jeffrey Skolnick