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Applications of
MC
in Biophysics
The solvent accessibility of a tRNA has been used to drive an adaptive
simplex bisection algorithm in
MC.
Below is a 2D ``cartoon'' of the situation; the actual 3D case appears
here.
Keep clicking the pictures to zoom in further on the adapted mesh, which
has a fractal-like nature.
The solvent accessibility of a slice of tRNA through the z=0 plane
is determined using Bashford and You's SolvAccVol library,
which is then use to drive a simplex bisection algorithm in MC.
The number of vertices in the finest mesh is 14,489, whereas the number
of simplices (triangles in this case) is 28,960.
The solvent region in which the tRNA lies is 2000 angstroms wide in each
direction.
Twenty-seven bisection steps are taken to isolate the implicitly defined
molecular skin, so that the element diameters around the skin are on the
order of 1.5e-6 angstroms.
To achieve a similar resolution around the skin using the uniform mesh
methods would require around 133 million mesh points in each coordinate
direction, or about 1.8e+15 total mesh points, rather than the 14,489
points used in the adaptive method.
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