• DocumentCode
    2481329
  • Title

    Parallel Monte Carlo study on caffeine-DNA interaction in aqueous solution

  • Author

    Kalugin, M.D. ; Teplukhin, A.V.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Syst. Programming, Russian Acad. of Sci., Moscow, Russia
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    23-29 May 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    8
  • Abstract
    Monte Carlo simulation of the caffeine-DNA interaction in aqueous solution at room temperature was carried out using parallel calculations on supercomputer. Very large simulation boxes were used containing superhelical B-DNA fragment surrounded by caffeine and water molecules. The most probable binding sites of caffeine molecules on the DNA surface as well as structural features of the respective caffeine-DNA complexes were revealed for several solutions´ concentrations.
  • Keywords
    DNA; Monte Carlo methods; biology computing; molecular biophysics; parallel algorithms; aqueous solution; binding sites; caffeine-DNA interaction; parallel Monte Carlo simulation; superhelical B-DNA fragment; Aggregates; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; DNA; Drugs; Geometry; Mathematical programming; Monte Carlo methods; Sampling methods; Temperature;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Parallel & Distributed Processing, 2009. IPDPS 2009. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Rome
  • ISSN
    1530-2075
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3751-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1530-2075
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5160925
  • Filename
    5160925