Protein Dynamics: New Advanced Computing Methods and Tools
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomacromolecules: Proteins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 856
Special Issue Editor
Interests: computational structural biology; biophysics; machine learning; molecular dynamics; receptors; post-translational modifications; allosteric regulation
Special Issue Information
Protein functions are closely associated with internal motions occurring over a wide range of time scales, from atomistic vibrations to global motions (e.g., large-scale conformational transitions), ranging from fs to ms or a longer timescale. Simulation of molecular dynamics is a technique that applies the laws of physics to a protein 3D structure to predict the time-dependent evolution of interacting particle systems.
Such a simulation provides access to complex data and models and enables understanding at the atomic level of dynamic processes in cells−signal transduction, transcription control, motor work, channel gating, enzyme catalysis, molecular recognition, and allosteric regulation.
A route from 3D structure to biofunctions is a connected sequence of different computational stepping-stones—the generation of high-throughput data, post-processing of these data, data analysis, and comprehensive graphical representation.
This Special Issue aims to highlight new methods and/or software tools targeting both the generation of reliable data for highly flexible and large proteins (in particular membrane proteins, intrinsically disordered proteins, etc.) under controlled computational resources, as well as a comprehensive data exploration and rigorous representation of results.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biomolecules (Impact factor 4.082; https://www.mdpi.com/journal/biomolecules) has elected computing tools for the description of protein dynamics as the focus of a forthcoming Special Issue. The aim is to gather impactful research papers and reviews under the specific topic of “Advanced Analysis of Protein Dynamics ". In this Special Issue, published as an open-access collection of articles, Dr. Luba Tchertanov will take on editorial responsibility.
As a key researcher working in this exciting area, we invite you to contribute to this Special Issue. We believe that your work would make an excellent contribution and greatly increase the issue’s impact. The scope of the issue is detailed fully at the dedicated webpage:
We intend to publish your manuscript as an invited ‘Featured Article’, which means that your submission will be handled on a priority basis and may be chosen as the cover story of the forthcoming issue.
The deadline for the manuscript submission is 31 December 2021. However, we would be delighted to receive your positive response and a tentative title at the earliest convenient time by answering directly to this email ([email protected]).
Authors are invited to submit original research and review papers addressing topics related to the scope of this Special Issue. You may share this invitation with your team members and colleagues; student co-authors are most welcome. It will be exciting to hear about your participation.
We look forward to your reply!
Kind regards,
Prof. Luba Tchertanov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Protein Dynamics
- Molecular Dynamics Algorithms
- Potentials in MD Simulations
- Data Processing
- Data Analysis
- Free Energy Landscape
- Communication Pathway
- Visualisation and Graphics
- Highly Flexible Proteins
- Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
- Metastable States
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