TY - JOUR AU - Strodel, B. AU - Bauer, M.S. AU - Fejer, S.N. AU - Koslover, E.F. AU - Wales, D.J. TI - Interpolation Schemes for Peptide Rearrangements JO - The journal of chemical physics VL - 132 SN - 0021-9606 CY - Melville, NY PB - American Institute of Physics M1 - PreJuSER-9867 SP - 054101 PY - 2010 N1 - M.B. gratefully acknowledges the Gates Cambridge Trust for financial support. AB - A variety of methods (in total seven) comprising different combinations of internal and Cartesian coordinates are tested for interpolation and alignment in connection attempts for polypeptide rearrangements. We consider Cartesian coordinates, the internal coordinates used in CHARMM, and natural internal coordinates, each of which has been interfaced to the OPTIM code and compared with the corresponding results for united-atom force fields. We show that aligning the methylene hydrogens to preserve the sign of a local dihedral angle, rather than minimizing a distance metric, provides significant improvements with respect to connection times and failures. We also demonstrate the superiority of natural coordinate methods in conjunction with internal alignment. Checking the potential energy of the interpolated structures can act as a criterion for the choice of the interpolation coordinate system, which reduces failures and connection times significantly. KW - Algorithms KW - Artificial Intelligence KW - Computer Simulation KW - Image Enhancement KW - Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted KW - Mathematics: methods KW - Molecular Sequence Data KW - Pattern Recognition, Automated KW - Peptides: chemistry KW - Protein Conformation KW - Protein Folding KW - Thermodynamics KW - Peptides (NLM Chemicals) KW - J (WoSType) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:20136299 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000274319900002 DO - DOI:10.1063/1.3273617 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/9867 ER -