Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Polyply; a python suite for facilitating simulations of macromolecules and nanomaterials

  • Fabian Grünewald,
  • Riccardo Alessandri,
  • Peter C. Kroon,
  • Luca Monticelli,
  • Paulo C. T. Souza,
  • Siewert J. Marrink

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27627-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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To facilitate the rational design of (nano)-materials and biomacromolecules by MD simulations, the authors present the polyply suite, featuring a graph matching algorithm and a random walk protocol for generating multi-scale polymeric topologies and initial coordinates.