Title
Effective atom volumes for implicit solvent models: comparison between Voronoi volumes and minimum fluctuation volumes.
Abstract
An essential element of implicit solvent models, such as the generalized Born method, is a knowledge of the volume associated with the individual atoms of the solute. Two approaches for determining atomic volumes for the generalized Born model are described; one is based on Voronoi polyhedra and the other, on minimizing the fluctuations in the overall volume of the solute. Volumes to be used with various parameter sets for protein and nucleic acids in the CHARMM force field are determined from a large set of known structures. The volumes resulting from the two different approaches are compared with respect to various parameters, including the size and solvent accessibility of the structures from which they are determined. The question of whether to include hydrogens in the atomic representation of the solute volume is examined. (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1002/jcc.1137
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Keywords
Field
DocType
Voronoi polyhedra,solvent-inaccessible volume,density fluctuations,continuum electrostatics,generalized Born equation
Force field (physics),Statistical physics,Polyhedron,Computational chemistry,Chemistry,Atom,Solvent models,Voronoi diagram,Solvent
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
15
0192-8651
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
1.68
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Schaefer1101.68
C. Bartels247336.82
Fabrice Leclerc3253.65
Martin Karplus412531.54