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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2025

GPU-Accelerated Implementation of Constant-pH Molecular Dynamics in NAMD.

Sarah Moe, Christophe Chipot, Benoît Roux

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Sarah MoeDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States.ORCID 0009-0009-1528-7079
Christophe ChipotLaboratoire International Associé Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Unité Mixte de Recherche No. 7019, Université de Lorraine, 54506 Vandœuvre-les-Nancy Cedex, France.ORCID 0000-0002-9122-1698
Benoît RouxDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5254-2712

Funding

Molecular dynamics studies of K+ and Na+ channels and biomembranes based on a polarizable force fieldR35GM152124 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI BENOIT ROUX · 2024 to 2026
$2.2M
Beagle-3: A Shared GPU Cluster for Biomolecular SciencesS10OD028655 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ROUX, BENOIT · 2020 to 2020
$2.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM152124NIH HHS S10 OD028655
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We introduce a GPU-based implementation of the hybrid nonequilibrium molecular dynamics-Monte Carlo constant-pH simulation method within the NAMD package. Benchmark results demonstrate that the new implementation achieves a substantial speedup over its CPU-based counterpart, while preserving the same level of accuracy. This performance gain expands the practical applicability of pH-controlled, all-atom simulations across a wide range of biomolecular systems. Although exhaustive enumeration of all possible protonation-state combinations remains a major challenge within conventional molecular dynamics frameworks, the ability to simulate at a defined pH─combined with GPU-acceleration─offers a powerful and efficient means for investigating dynamic protonation profiles of biomolecules.

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Computer GraphicsMolecular Dynamics SimulationHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationMonte Carlo MethodProtonsProtons

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PMID41364919
PMCPMC12756948

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