Abstract

We present parmbsc1, a force field for DNA atomistic simulation, which has been parameterized from high-level quantum mechanical data and tested for nearly 100 systems (representing a total simulation time of ~140 μs) covering most of DNA structural space. Parmbsc1 provides high-quality results in diverse systems. Parameters and trajectories are available at http://mmb.irbbarcelona.org/ParmBSC1/

Citation

Ivan Ivani, Pablo D Dans, Agnes Noy, Alberto Pérez, Ignacio Faustino, Adam Hospital, Jürgen Walther, Pau Andrio, Ramon Goñi, Alexandra Balaceanu, Guillem Portella, Federica Battistini, Josep Lluis Gelpí, Carlos González, Michele Vendruscolo, Charles A Laughton, Sarah A Harris, David A Case, Modesto Orozco (2016):

Parmbsc1: a refined force field for DNA simulations.

Nature Methods 13(55-58). doi:10.1038/nmeth.3658

(Zenodo preprint available)