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Electrostatic interactions play crucial roles in biophysical processes such as protein folding and molecular recognition. Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE)-based models have emerged as widely used in modeling these important processes.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-11 Ruxi Qi , Wesley M. Botello-Smith , Ray Luo

Implicit-solvent models are widely used to study the electrostatics in dissolved biomolecules, which are parameterized using force fields. Standard force fields treat the charge distribution with point charges, however, other force fields…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Christopher D. Cooper

The Poisson--Boltzmann equation is widely used to model electrostatics in molecular systems. Available software packages solve it using finite difference, finite element, and boundary element methods, where the latter is attractive due to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Michal Bosy , Matthew W. Scroggs , Timo Betcke , Erik Burman , Christopher D. Cooper

In this paper, we present a GPU-accelerated direct-sum boundary integral method to solve the linear Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation. In our method, a well-posed boundary integral formulation is used to ensure the fast convergence of Krylov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Weihua Geng , Ferosh Jacob

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) is a relevant partial differential equation commonly used in biophysical applications to estimate the electrostatic energy of biomolecular systems immersed in electrolytic solutions. A conventional mean…

Biomolecular electrostatics is key in protein function and the chemical processes affecting it. Implicit-solvent models via the Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation provide insights with less computational cost than atomistic models, making…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 Tingyu Wang , Christopher D. Cooper , Timo Betcke , Lorena A. Barba

The Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver (APBS) software was developed to solve the equations of continuum electrostatics for large biomolecular assemblages that has provided impact in the study of a broad range of chemical, biological, and…

In this paper, we present a parallel higher-order boundary integral method to solve the linear Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation. In our method, a well-posed boundary integral formulation is used to ensure the fast convergence of Krylov…

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This work uses the long-wavelength limit to compute LSPR response of biosensors, expanding the open-source PyGBe code to compute the extinction cross-section of metallic nanoparticles in the presence of any target for sensing. The target…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Natalia C. Clementi , Christopher D. Cooper , Lorena A. Barba

The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) model governs the electrostatics of solvated biomolecules, i.e., potential, field, energy, and force. These quantities can provide useful information about protein properties, functions, and dynamics. By…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-29 Xin Yang , Elyssa Sliheet , Reece Iriye , Daniel Reynolds , Weihua Geng

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation offers an efficient way to study electrostatics in molecular settings. Its numerical solution with the boundary element method is widely used, as the complicated molecular surface is accurately represented by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Stefan D. Search , Christopher D. Cooper , Elwin van't Wout

An accurate force calculation with the Poisson-Boltzmann equation is challenging, as it requires the electric field on the molecular surface. Here, we present a calculation of the electric field on the solute-solvent interface that is exact…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Ian Addison-Smith , Horacio V. Guzmán , Christopher D. Cooper

A numerical method using implicit surface representations is proposed to solve the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equations that arise in mathematical models for the electrostatics of molecules in solvent. The proposed method used an implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Yimin Zhong , Kui Ren , Richard Tsai

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation is a widely used model to study the electrostatics in molecular solvation. Its numerical solution using a boundary integral formulation requires a mesh on the molecular surface only, yielding accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Vicente Ramm , Jehanzeb H. Chaudhry , Christopher D. Cooper

We present teraflop-scale calculations of biomolecular electrostatics enabled by the combination of algorithmic and hardware acceleration. The algorithmic acceleration is achieved with the fast multipole method (FMM) in conjunction with a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Rio Yokota , Jaydeep P. Bardhan , Matthew G. Knepley , L. A. Barba , Tsuyoshi Hamada

In computational biochemistry and biophysics, understanding the role of electrostatic interactions is crucial for elucidating the structure, dynamics, and function of biomolecules. The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation is a foundational tool…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-08 Yongxian Wu , Qiang Zhu , Ray Luo

The Poisson-Boltzmann model is an effective and popular approach for modeling solvated biomolecules in continuum solvent with dissolved electrolytes. In this paper, we report our recent work in developing a Galerkin boundary integral method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Jiahui Chen , Johannes Tausch , Weihua Geng

Developing accurate solvers for the Poisson Boltzmann (PB) model is the first step to make the PB model suitable for implicit solvent simulation. Reducing the grid size influence on the performance of the solver benefits to increasing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-18 Bao Wang , Guowei Wei

The structure and function of biological molecules are strongly influenced by the water and dissolved ions that surround them. This aqueous solution (solvent) exerts significant electrostatic forces in response to the biomolecule's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Matthew G. Knepley , Jaydeep P. Bardhan
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