CHARMM: the biomolecular simulation program

BR Brooks, CL Brooks III… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract CHARMM (Chemistry at HARvard Molecular Mechanics) is a highly versatile and
widely used molecular simulation program. It has been developed over the last three …

Mechanical properties of lipid bilayers from molecular dynamics simulation

RM Venable, FLH Brown, RW Pastor - Chemistry and physics of lipids, 2015 - Elsevier
Lipid areas (A ℓ), bilayer area compressibilities (KA), bilayer bending constants (KC), and
monolayer spontaneous curvatures (c 0) from simulations using the CHARMM36 force field …

[HTML][HTML] A suite of tutorials for the WESTPA rare-events sampling software [Article v1. 0]

AT Bogetti, B Mostofian, A Dickson… - Living journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The weighted ensemble (WE) strategy has been demonstrated to be highly efficient in
generating pathways and rate constants for rare events such as protein folding and protein …

Pressure control using stochastic cell rescaling

M Bernetti, G Bussi - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular dynamics simulations require barostats to be performed at a constant pressure.
The usual recipe is to employ the Berendsen barostat first, which displays a first-order …

Liquid interfaces probed by second-harmonic and sum-frequency spectroscopy

KB Eisenthal - Chemical reviews, 1996 - ACS Publications
A powerful approach to the study of interfaces has been developing rapidly in the past
decade. It is based on the spectroscopic methods of secondharmonic (SHG) and sum …

Development of the CHARMM force field for lipids

RW Pastor, AD MacKerell Jr - The journal of physical chemistry …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The development of the CHARMM additive all-atom lipid force field (FF) is traced from the
early 1990s to the most recent version (C36) published in 2010. Though simulations with …

A computer perspective of membranes: molecular dynamics studies of lipid bilayer systems

DP Tieleman, SJ Marrink, HJC Berendsen - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 1997 - Elsevier
Knowledge of the structure and dynamics of membranes has traditionally been fragmentary
at the atomic level. This is due partly to the fluid character of membranes under physiological …

Setting up and running molecular dynamics simulations of membrane proteins

C Kandt, WL Ash, DP Tieleman - Methods, 2007 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics simulations have become a popular and powerful technique to study
lipids and membrane proteins. We present some general questions and issues that should …

Computer modelling of the surface tension of the gas–liquid and liquid–liquid interface

A Ghoufi, P Malfreyt, DJ Tildesley - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
This review presents the state of the art in molecular simulations of interfacial systems and of
the calculation of the surface tension from the underlying intermolecular potential. We …

Computer simulations of liquid/vapor interface in Lennard-Jones fluids: Some questions and answers

A Trokhymchuk, J Alejandre - The Journal of chemical physics, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
Canonical molecular dynamics MD and Monte Carlo MC simulations for liquid/vapor
equilibrium in truncated Lennard-Jones fluid have been carried out. Different results for …