An Efficient Hybrid Explicit/Implicit Solvent Method for Biomolecular Simulations
Abstract
We present a new hybrid explicit/implicit solvent method for dynamics simulations of macromolecular systems. The method models explicitly the hydration of the solute by either a layer or sphere of water molecules, and the generalized Born (GB) theory is used to treat the bulk continuum solvent outside the explicit simulation volume. To reduce the computational cost, we implemented a multigrid method for evaluating the pairwise electrostatic and GB terms. It is shown that for typical ion and protein simulations our method achieves similar equilibrium and dynamical observables as the conventional particle mesh Ewald (PME) method. Simulation timings are reported, which indicate that the hybrid method is much faster than PME, primarily due to a significant reduction in the number of explicit water molecules required to model hydration effects.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 13, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA429785
Entities
People
- Freddie R. Salsbury Jr.
- Mark A Olson
- Michael S. Lee
Organizations
- United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases