Innovations in Biomolecular Modeling and Simulations

Volume 1 Beginnings; Personal Perspective; Fashioning NAMD, a History of Risk and Reward: Klaus Schulten Reminisces; Towards Biomolecular Simulations with Explicit Inclusion of Polarizability: Development of a CHARMM Polarizable Force Field based on the Classical Drude Oscillator Model; Integral Equation Theory of Biomolecules and Electrolytes; Molecular Simulation in the Energy Biosciences; Sampling and rates; Dynamics Simulations with Trajectory Fragments; Computing Reaction Rates in Biomolecular Systems using discrete macrostates; Challenges in applying Monte Carlo sampling to biomolecular systems; Coarse graining and multiscale models; Coarse Grained Protein Models; Generalized Multi-Level Coarse-Grained Molecular Simulation and Its Applucation to Myosin-V Movement; Top-down Mesoscale Models and Free Energy Calculations of Multivalent Protein-Protein and Protein-Membrane Interactions in Nanocarrier Adhesion and Receptor Trafficking; Studying Proteins and Peptides at Material Surfaces; Multiscale Design: From Theory to Practice. Volume 2 Atomistic simulations of nucleic acids and nucleic acid complexes; Modeling nucleic acid structure and flexibility: from atomic to mesoscopic scale; Molecular dynamics and force field based methods for studying quadruplex nucleic acids; Opposites attract: Shape and Electrostatic Complementarity in Protein/DNA Complexes; Intrinsic motions of DNA polymerases underlie their remarkable specificity and selectivity and suggest a hybrid substrate binding mechanism; Molecular Dynamics Structure Prediction of a Novel Protein/DNA Complex: Two HU Proteins with a DNA Four-way Junction; Molecular Dynamics Simulations of RNA Molecules; The Structure and Folding of Helical Junctions in RNA; DNA folding, knotting, sliding and hopping; Simulations of DNA Knots and Catenanes; Monte Carlo Simulations of Nucleosome Chains to Idenitfy Factors that control DNA Compaction and Access; Sliding Dynamics Along DNA: a Molecular Perspective; Drug design; Structure-based design technology: CONTOUR and its aplication to drug discovery; Molecular simulation in computer-aided drug design: algorithms and applications; Computer-aided drug discovery: two antiviral drugs for HIV AIDS