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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2024

phbuilder: A Tool for Efficiently Setting up Constant pH Molecular Dynamics Simulations in GROMACS.

Anton Jansen, Noora Aho, Gerrit Groenhof, Pavel Buslaev, Berk Hess

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22 citing papers in PubMed.

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  17. Adding the AMBER 14SB Force Field to the Stochastic Titration CpHMD Method.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2025
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Anton JansenDepartment of Applied Physics and Swedish e-Science Research Center, Science for Life Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-2835-7987
Noora AhoNanoscience Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland.ORCID 0009-0008-1243-0215
Gerrit GroenhofNanoscience Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-8148-5334
Pavel BuslaevNanoscience Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-2031-4691
Berk HessDepartment of Applied Physics and Swedish e-Science Research Center, Science for Life Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Constant pH molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful technique that allows the protonation state of residues to change dynamically, thereby enabling the study of pH dependence in a manner that has not been possible before. Recently, a constant pH implementation was incorporated into the GROMACS MD package. Although this implementation provides good accuracy and performance, manual modification and the preparation of simulation input files are required, which can be complicated, tedious, and prone to errors. To simplify and automate the setup process, we present phbuilder, a tool that automatically prepares constant pH MD simulations for GROMACS by modifying the input structure and topology as well as generating the necessary parameter files. phbuilder can prepare constant pH simulations from both initial structures and existing simulation systems, and it also provides functionality for performing titrations and single-site parametrizations of new titratable group types. The tool is freely available at www.gitlab.com/gromacs-constantph. We anticipate that phbuilder will make constant pH simulations easier to set up, thereby making them more accessible to the GROMACS user community.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationSoftwareHydrogen-Ion Concentration

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PMID38215282
PMCPMC10865341

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