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ArticleComputer methods in applied mechanics and engineering2009

A Fast Variational Method for the Construction of Resolution Adaptive C-Smooth Molecular Surfaces.

Chandrajit L Bajaj, Guoliang Xu, Qin Zhang

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Article in Computer methods in applied mechanics and engineering, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. F2Dock: fast Fourier protein-protein docking.IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics
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3 authors.

Chandrajit L BajajCVC, Department of Computer Science, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712.
Guoliang Xu
Qin Zhang

Funding

VISUALIZATION TOOLS FOR AUTOMATED MOLECULAR MICROSCOPYP41RR008605 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI PAPADOPOULOS, PHILIP · 1994 to 2011
$28.1M
ZERNIKE PHASE PLATE CRYOEM IN OKAZAKIP41RR002250 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI CHIU, WAH · 1985 to 2011
$22.1M
A New Approach to Rapid Protein-Protein DockingR01GM073087 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI BAJAJ, CHANDRAJIT L · 2006 to 2008
$1.3M
Software Maintenance for Biomolecular ComplexesR01EB004873 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI BAJAJ, CHANDRAJIT L · 2007 to 2010
$1.2M
Hierarchical Methods for Large BioMolecular ComplexesR01GM074258 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN · PI BAJAJ, CHANDRAJIT L · 2005 to 2010
$778k
NCRR NIH HHS P41 RR002250NCRR NIH HHS P41 RR008605NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB004873NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM073087NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM074258
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Abstract

We present a variational approach to smooth molecular (proteins, nucleic acids) surface constructions, starting from atomic coordinates, as available from the protein and nucleic-acid data banks. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations traditionally used in understanding protein and nucleic-acid folding processes, are based on molecular force fields, and require smooth models of these molecular surfaces. To accelerate MD simulations, a popular methodology is to employ coarse grained molecular models, which represent clusters of atoms with similar physical properties by psuedo- atoms, resulting in coarser resolution molecular surfaces. We consider generation of these mixed-resolution or adaptive molecular surfaces. Our approach starts from deriving a general form second order geometric partial differential equation in the level-set formulation, by minimizing a first order energy functional which additionally includes a regularization term to minimize the occurrence of chemically infeasible molecular surface pockets or tunnel-like artifacts. To achieve even higher computational efficiency, a fast cubic B-spline C(2) interpolation algorithm is also utilized. A narrow band, tri-cubic B-spline level-set method is then used to provide C(2) smooth and resolution adaptive molecular surfaces.

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