Improvements to the APBS biomolecular solvation software suite

Protein Science

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 112-128

  Jurrus, Elizabeth ^a   Engel, Dave ^a   Star, Keith ^a   Monson, Kyle ^a   Brandi, Juan ^a   Felberg, Lisa E ^b   Brookes, David H ^b   Wilson, Leighton ^c   Chen, Jiahui ^d   Liles, Karina ^a   Chun, Minju ^a   Li, Peter ^a   Gohara, David W ^e   Dolinsky, Todd ^f   Konecny, Robert ^g   Koes, David R ^h   Nielsen, Jens Erik ⁱ   Head Gordon, Teresa ^b   Geng, Weihua ^d   Krasny, Robert ^c   Wei, Guo Wei ^j   Holst, Michael J ^g   McCammon, J Andrew ^g   Baker, Nathan A ^a,k   more..

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f FoodLogiQ   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

ⁱ NOVOZYMES A S   (Denmark)

^j MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

electrostatics; pKa; software; solvation; titration

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; SOLVENT;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFTWARE; SOLVATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; MOLECULAR MODEL;

MODELS, MOLECULAR; SOFTWARE; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 85039036425     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.3280     Document Type: Article

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