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ArticleNucleic acids research2024

A new paradigm for molecular dynamics databases: the COVID-19 database, the legacy of a titanic community effort.

Daniel Beltrán, Adam Hospital, Josep Lluís Gelpí, Modesto Orozco

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Daniel BeltránInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.
Adam HospitalInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8291-8071
Josep Lluís GelpíDepartment of Biochemistry and Biomedicine. University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0566-7723
Modesto OrozcoInstitute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center · ESInstitute for Research in Biomedicine · ES

Funding

BioExcel Centre of Excellence for Computational Biomolecular Research 823830European Union 101094651
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are keeping computers busy around the world, generating a huge amount of data that is typically not open to the scientific community. Pioneering efforts to ensure the safety and reusability of MD data have been based on the use of simple databases providing a limited set of standard analyses on single-short trajectories. Despite their value, these databases do not offer a true solution for the current community of MD users, who want a flexible analysis pipeline and the possibility to address huge non-Markovian ensembles of large systems. Here we present a new paradigm for MD databases, resilient to large systems and long trajectories, and designed to be compatible with modern MD simulations. The data are offered to the community through a web-based graphical user interface (GUI), implemented with state-of-the-art technology, which incorporates system-specific analysis designed by the trajectory providers. A REST API and associated Jupyter Notebooks are integrated into the platform, allowing fully customized meta-analysis by final users. The new technology is illustrated using a collection of trajectories obtained by the community in the context of the effort to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The server is accessible at https://bioexcel-cv19.bsc.es/#/. It is free and open to all users and there are no login requirements. It is also integrated into the simulations section of the BioExcel-MolSSI COVID-19 Molecular Structure and Therapeutics Hub: https://covid.molssi.org/simulations/ and is part of the MDDB effort (https://mddbr.eu).

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COVID-19Databases, FactualSoftwareHumansMeta-Analysis as TopicMolecular Dynamics SimulationPandemics

Identifiers

PMID37953362
PMCPMC10767965
OpenAlexW4388638767

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