DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Bringing Molecular Dynamics Simulation Data into View

Journal Article · · Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations monitor time-resolved motions of macromolecules. While visualization of MD trajectories allows an instant and intuitive understanding of dynamics and function, so far mainly static representations are provided in published literature. Recent advances in browser technology may allow for the sharing of trajectories through interactive visualization on the web. We believe that by providing intuitive and interactive visualization along with related protocols and analysis data promotes understanding, reliability, and re-usability of MD simulations. Existing barriers for sharing MD simulations are discussed and emerging solutions are highlighted. We predict that interactive visualization of MD trajectories will quickly be adopted by researchers, research consortiums, journals, and funding agencies to gather and distribute results from MD simulations via the web.

Research Organization:
RCSB Protein Data Bank (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
Berlin Institute of Health (BIH); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Einstein Center Digital Future; National Institutes of Health (NIH); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0019749
OSTI ID:
1564312
Journal Information:
Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Journal Name: Trends in Biochemical Sciences Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 44; ISSN 0968-0004
Publisher:
Cell PressCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

References (62)

Birth and Future of Multiscale Modeling for Macromolecular Systems (Nobel Lecture) journal August 2014
UCSF Chimera?A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis journal January 2004
Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD journal January 2005
The Amber biomolecular simulation programs journal January 2005
CHARMM: The biomolecular simulation program journal July 2009
MDAnalysis: A toolkit for the analysis of molecular dynamics simulations journal April 2011
HTMoL: full-stack solution for remote access, visualization, and analysis of molecular dynamics trajectory data journal August 2018
GROMACS: A message-passing parallel molecular dynamics implementation journal September 1995
VMD: Visual molecular dynamics journal February 1996
MDTraj: A Modern Open Library for the Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Trajectories journal October 2015
The role of protein dynamics in GPCR function: insights from the β2AR and rhodopsin journal April 2014
Angiotensin Analogs with Divergent Bias Stabilize Distinct Receptor Conformations journal January 2019
Structural Insights into the Process of GPCR-G Protein Complex Formation journal May 2019
Highlights of (bio-)chemical tools and visualization software for computational science journal March 2019
GPU-based remote visualization of dynamic molecular data on the web journal November 2016
Molecular dynamics simulations of large macromolecular complexes journal April 2015
Dynameomics: A Comprehensive Database of Protein Dynamics journal March 2010
MoDEL (Molecular Dynamics Extended Library): A Database of Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Trajectories journal November 2010
A New Generation of Crystallographic Validation Tools for the Protein Data Bank journal October 2011
The Protein Data Bank at 40: Reflecting on the Past to Prepare for the Future journal March 2012
Outcome of the First wwPDB Hybrid/Integrative Methods Task Force Workshop journal July 2015
A Golden Age for Working with Public Proteomics Data journal May 2017
Implementing WebGL and HTML5 in Macromolecular Visualization and Modern Computer-Aided Drug Design journal June 2017
Augmenting Research, Education, and Outreach with Client-Side Web Programming journal May 2018
CHARMM-GUI Input Generator for NAMD, GROMACS, AMBER, OpenMM, and CHARMM/OpenMM Simulations Using the CHARMM36 Additive Force Field journal December 2015
High-Throughput Automated Preparation and Simulation of Membrane Proteins with HTMD journal August 2017
iBIOMES Lite: Summarizing Biomolecular Simulation Data in Limited Settings journal May 2014
Precision vs Flexibility in GPCR signaling journal August 2013
Position of Transmembrane Helix 6 Determines Receptor G Protein Coupling Specificity journal July 2014
Unbiased Molecular Dynamics of 11 min Timescale Drug Unbinding Reveals Transition State Stabilizing Interactions journal January 2018
A global coalition to sustain core data journal March 2017
Membrane cholesterol access into a G-protein-coupled receptor journal February 2017
MDsrv: viewing and sharing molecular dynamics simulations on the web journal December 2017
LiteMol suite: interactive web-based visualization of large-scale macromolecular structure data journal December 2017
Announcing the worldwide Protein Data Bank journal December 2003
The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship journal March 2016
Analysis of impact metrics for the Protein Data Bank journal October 2018
Molecular simulations and visualization: introduction and overview journal January 2014
Data Sharing journal January 2016
An empirical analysis of journal policy effectiveness for computational reproducibility journal March 2018
3Dmol.js: molecular visualization with WebGL journal December 2014
Cyclo-lib: a database of computational molecular dynamics simulations of cyclodextrins journal June 2016
NGL viewer: web-based molecular graphics for large complexes journal May 2018
The Protein Data Bank journal January 2000
BIGNASim: a NoSQL database structure and analysis portal for nucleic acids simulation data journal November 2015
NGL Viewer: a web application for molecular visualization journal April 2015
Web3DMol: interactive protein structure visualization based on WebGL journal May 2017
RCSB Protein Data Bank: biological macromolecular structures enabling research and education in fundamental biology, biomedicine, biotechnology and energy journal October 2018
The MemProtMD database: a resource for membrane-embedded protein structures and their lipid interactions journal November 2018
The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible and collaborative biomedical analyses: 2018 update journal May 2018
Jmol – a paradigm shift in crystallographic visualization journal September 2010
MegaMol—A Prototyping Framework for Particle-Based Visualization journal February 2015
Toward Theoretical Techniques for Measuring the Use of Human Effort in Visual Analytic Systems journal January 2017
Familiarity Vs Trust: A Comparative Study of Domain Scientists' Trust in Visual Analytics and Conventional Analysis Methods journal January 2017
State-of-the-Art Report in Web-based Visualization journal June 2016
Biomolecular Simulation: A Computational Microscope for Molecular Biology journal June 2012
Data model, dictionaries, and desiderata for biomolecular simulation data indexing and sharing journal January 2014
Molmil: a molecular viewer for the PDB and beyond journal August 2016
ActivePapers: a platform for publishing and archiving computer-aided research journal January 2014
Ten simple rules on how to create open access and reproducible molecular simulations of biological systems journal January 2019
Reproducibility vs. Replicability: A Brief History of a Confused Terminology journal January 2018
Web Apps Come of Age for Molecular Sciences journal August 2017