Virtual rigid body dynamics
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Biopolymers
- Vol. 31 (1), 77-100
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bip.360310108
Abstract
An important direction in biological simulations is the development of methods that permit the study of larger systems and/or longer simulation time scales than is currently feasible by molecular dynamics. One such method designed with this objective in mind is stochastic boundary molecular dynamics (SBMD). SBMD was developed for the characterization of spatially localized processes in proteins, and has been shown to successfully reproduce structural and dynamical properties of these macromolecules, as compared to a molecular dynamics control simulation, when concerted or global motions are not present. The virtual rigid body dynamics method presented in this work extends the range of applicability of the SBMD method, by providing a framework to include these important long time scale conformational transitions. In this paper we describe the two-step implementation of the virtual rigid body model: first, the reduction of the full atomic representation to a reduced particle (virtual bond) model, and second, the propagation of the dynamics of flexibly connected rigid bodies containing virtual atom sites.Keywords
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