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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2023

Unbreaking Assemblies in Molecular Simulations with Periodic Boundaries.

Bart M H Bruininks, Tsjerk A Wassenaar, Ilpo Vattulainen

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Bart M H BruininksDepartment of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-5136-0864
Tsjerk A WassenaarGroningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 72, 9700 AB Groningen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-6345-0266
Ilpo VattulainenDepartment of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-7408-3214

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In molecular simulations, periodic boundary conditions are typically used to avoid surface effects occurring at the boundaries of the simulation box. A consequence of this is that molecules and assemblies may appear split over the boundaries. Broken molecular assemblies make it difficult to interpret, analyze, and visualize molecular simulation data. We present a general and fast algorithm that repairs molecular assemblies that are broken due to periodic boundary conditions. The open source method presented here, MDVWhole, works for all translation-only crystallographic periodic boundary conditions. The method consumes little memory and can fix the visualization of the assembly of millions of particles in a few seconds. Thus, it is suitable for processing both single simulation frames and long trajectories with millions of points.

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PMID37171034
PMCPMC10268952

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