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Martini hangover
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- Last Updated: Friday, 22 January 2021 10:53
Be careful - drinking too many Martinis or being an inexperienced drinker may cause a severe hangover.
A recent paper from the Voth group provides a clear example of this downside, in particular the entropy-enthalpy compensation which is inherent to CG models in general, including Martini.
For details, see: Jarin et al., JCTC, 2021.
Relevance of lipid complexity
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- Last Updated: Thursday, 14 January 2021 15:43
Check out this nice paper on modeling E.coli lipid membranes at multiple levels of compositional complexity, showing that the presence of many different lipid types gives these membranes their distinct properties. And, demonstrating excellent performance of the preliminary Martini 3 lipids !
Pluhackova & Horner, "Native-like membrane models of E. coli polar lipid extract shed light on the importance of lipid composition complexity", BMC Biology, 2021. online.
Nucleotide cofactors & metabolites
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- Last Updated: Friday, 08 January 2021 15:49
All these small but essential molecules Martinized especially for you by the Melo team. Check it out: Sousa et al., JCIM, 2021
The paper describes Martini topologies for key metabolites and cofactors (FAD, FMN, riboflavin, NAD, NADP, ATP, ADP, AMP, and thiamine pyrophosphate) in different oxidation and protonation states as well as smaller molecules derived from them (among others, nicotinamide, adenosine, adenine, ribose, thiamine, and lumiflavin), summing up a total of 79 different molecules.
The topologies are available for download here!
Martini Perspective in Materials Science
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- Last Updated: Wednesday, 16 December 2020 11:22
Martini applications in material science is a booming field.
We summarized the progress in this field, and provided a critical outlook, in a perspective paper which is now available in the arXiv.
Just blow it up ...
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- Last Updated: Tuesday, 15 December 2020 11:12
If you feel bored during the Xmas break, or simply want to get rid of your Martini frustrations, please experiment with exploding Martini-bead snowmen, Santaclaus, or other stuff you'ld like to see blasted (bunnies !).
Who says Martini is too sticky ?
We would like to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year, please stay healthy and may you all have a blast ...