The SOP-GPU package, where SOP-GPU stands for the Self Orginized Polymer Model fully implemented on a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), is a scientific software package designed to perform Langevin Dynamics simulations of the mechanical unfolding/deformation of large biomolecular systems on the experimental subsecond (millisecond-to-second) timescale. The SOP-GPU package utilizes the Cα-atom based coarse-grained description of proteins combined with Langevin Dynamics in overdamped limit.
The package is fully-implemented on GPU using NVIDIA CUDA technology with focus on high-performance, ease of use, and extensibility [1,2]. SOP-GPU provides out-of-the-box capabilities for numerical simulations of nanoindentation experiments, as well as force-ramp and force-clamp protein pulling. One of the features is optinal support for inclusion of hydrodynamics interactions [3].
SOP-GPU have been successfully used to model such system as Fibrin(ogen) molecules [4], CCMV capsid [5,6], microtubule protofilament [7,8,9], human synaptotagmin 1 [10], and muscle anchoring complex [11].
Latest documentation is available at ReadTheDocs (PDF).
This software is distributed under GPLv3 or later (see COPYING
).
If used for scientific publications, please cite [1] and [2]. If hydrodyamics functionality is used, please also cite [3].
- Zhmurov, A., Dima, R. I., Kholodov, Y., & Barsegov, V. SOP-GPU: Accelerating biomolecular simulations in the centisecond timescale using graphics processors. Proteins 78, 2984–99 (2010)
- Zhmurov, A., Rybnikov, K., Kholodov, Y., & Barsegov, V. Generation of random numbers on graphics processors: forced indentation in silico of the bacteriophage HK97. J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 5278–88 (2011)
- Alekseenko, A., Kononova, O., Kholodov, Y., Marx, K.A., & Barsegov, V. SOP-GPU: influence of solvent-induced hydrodynamic interactions on dynamic structural transitions in protein assemblies. J. Comput. Chem., in press (2016)
- Zhmurov, A., Brown, A.E.X., Litvinov, R.I., Dima, R.I., Weisel, J.W., & Barsegov, V. Mechanism of fibrin(ogen) forced unfolding. Structure 19, 1615–24 (2011)
- Kononova, O., Snijder, J., Brasch, M., Cornelissen, J., Dima, R.I., Marx, K.A., Wuite, G.J.L., Roos, W.H., & Barsegov, V. Structural transitions and energy landscape for Cowpea Chlorotic Mottle Virus capsid mechanics from nanomanipulation in vitro and in silico. Biophys. J. 105, 1893–903 (2013)
- Kononova, O., Snijder, J., Kholodov, Y., Marx, K.A., Wuite, G.J.L., Roos, W.H., & Barsegov, V. Fluctuating nonlinear spring model of mechanical deformation of biological particles. PLOS Comput. Biol. 12, e1004729 (2016)
- Kononova, O., Kholodov, Y, Theisen, K.E., Marx, K.A., Dima, R.I., Ataullakhanov, F.I., Grishchuk, E.L., & Barsegov, V. Tubulin bond energies and microtubule biomechanics determined from nanoindentation in silico. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136(49), 17036–45 (2014)
- Theisen, K.E., Zhmurov, A., Newberry, M.E., Barsegov, V., & Dima, R.I. Multiscale modeling of the nanomechanics of microtubule protofilaments. J. Phys. Chem. B 116(29), 8545–8555 (2012).
- Theisen, K.E., Desai, N.J., Volski, A.M., & Dima, R.I. Mechanics of severing for large microtubule complexes revealed by coarse-grained simulations. J. Chem. Phys. 139(12), 121926 (2013).
- Duan, L., Zhmurov, A., Barsegov, V., & Dima, R.I. Exploring the mechanical stability of the C2 domains in human synaptotagmin 1. J. Phys. Chem. B 115(33), 10133–10146 (2011).
- Bodmer, N.K., Theisen, K.E., & Dima, R.I. Molecular investigations into the mechanics of a muscle anchoring complex. Biophys. J 108(9), 2322–2332 (2015).