Title
A virtual environment for steered molecular dynamics
Abstract
A molecular dynamics simulation approximates the motion of atoms in a system of molecules over short intervals of simulated time, typically in the order of picoseconds to nanoseconds. Such simulations may run for days or weeks on a computer when used to investigate the dynamic behavior of small proteins in biological systems. By adding additional restraints, a simulation may be steered to observe the possibility of particular behaviors or to eliminate others over shorter timescales. We have developed the steered molecular dynamics (SMD) system to interactively place and observe the effects of restraints in a running dynamics simulation. In this article, we describe an application of SMD to the extraction of small ligands from proteins, and an immersive virtual 3D environment through which the SMD system can be operated. The virtual environment is constructed using the protein interactive theater (PIT) system, a head-tracked stereo workspace for two users.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1016/S0167-739X(99)00005-9
Future Generation Computer Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Computational steering,Virtual environments,Molecular dynamics
Virtual machine,Workspace,Computer science,Simulation,Real-time computing,Molecular dynamics,Immersion (virtual reality),Computational steering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
4
0167-739X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
1.85
2
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jan Prins126723.14
Jan Hermans271.85
Geoff Mann382.25
Lars S. Nyland4596.26
Martin Simons5629.79