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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2026

Detection of gas bubbles and local voids in molecular simulations using burbuja.

Abraham Muñiz-Chicharro, Lane W Votapka, Rommie E Amaro

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Detection of gas bubbles and local voids in molecular simulations using burbuja.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
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3 authors.

Abraham Muñiz-ChicharroDepartment of Molecular Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2598-7687
Lane W VotapkaDepartment of Molecular Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0865-5867
Rommie E AmaroDepartment of Molecular Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present burbuja (Baring Unseen Regions of Bubbles Using Joint-Density Analysis), an automated software tool for detecting and characterizing gas bubbles and other local voids in molecular structures and trajectories containing explicit aqueous solvent. We describe the burbuja algorithm and demonstrate its accuracy and utility across a range of example systems, including globular proteins, a membrane system, a coarse-grained membrane trajectory with 25,000 frames, a large envelope capsid containing approximately 150 million atoms, and a very large respiratory aerosol system containing approximately 1 billion atoms. Burbuja supports optional GPU acceleration and can be run as a standalone command-line utility or through a Python-based API, facilitating integration with existing community tools for molecular system preparation and analysis. Burbuja is open-source and freely available at https://github.com/Abrahammc90/Burbuja.git.

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AlgorithmsGasesMolecular Dynamics SimulationProteinsSoftwareGasesProteinsbubblesequilibrationerror detectionexplicit solventmolecular dynamicsvalidationvoids

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PMID42015584
PMCPMC13100356

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