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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2016

Applications of Discrete Molecular Dynamics in biology and medicine.

Elizabeth A Proctor, Nikolay V Dokholyan

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
47citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Microcalorimetry reveals multi-state thermal denaturation ofStructural dynamics (Melville, N.Y.) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Elizabeth A ProctorDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States. Electronic address: eproctor@mit.edu.
Nikolay V DokholyanDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States. Electronic address: dokh@unc.edu.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Protein Misfolding and AggregationR01GM080742 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DOKHOLYAN, NIKOLAY · 2007 to 2015
$2.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM080742NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM080742
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Discrete Molecular Dynamics (DMD) is a physics-based simulation method using discrete energetic potentials rather than traditional continuous potentials, allowing microsecond time scale simulations of biomolecular systems to be performed on personal computers rather than supercomputers or specialized hardware. With the ongoing explosion in processing power even in personal computers, applications of DMD have similarly multiplied. In the past two years, researchers have used DMD to model structures of disease-implicated protein folding intermediates, study assembly of protein complexes, predict protein-protein binding conformations, engineer rescue mutations in disease-causative protein mutants, design a protein conformational switch to control cell signaling, and describe the behavior of polymeric dispersants for environmental cleanup of oil spills, among other innovative applications.

Indexed as

Molecular Dynamics SimulationNucleic Acid ConformationProtein ConformationProtein EngineeringProtein FoldingRNARNA

Identifiers

PMID26638022
PMCPMC4834256
OpenAlexW2178165437

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Registered trials

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