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PROFASI: A Monte Carlo simulation package for protein folding and aggregation

✍ Scribed by Anders Irbäck; Sandipan Mohanty

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
202 KB
Volume
27
Category
Article
ISSN
0192-8651

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Abstract

We present a flexible and efficient program package written in C++, PROFASI, for simulating protein folding and aggregation. The systems are modeled using an all‐atom description of the protein chains with only torsional degrees of freedom, and implicit water. The program package has a modular structure that makes the interaction potential easy to modify. The currently implemented potential is able to fold several peptides with about 20 residues, and has also been used to study aggregation and force‐induced unfolding. The simulation methods implemented in PROFASI are Monte Carlo‐based and include a semilocal move and simulated tempering. Adding new updates is easy. The code runs fast in both single‐ and multi‐chain applications, as is illustrated by several examples. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 27: 1548–1555, 2006

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