Accelerating the 3D reference interaction site model theory of molecular solvation with treecode summation and cut‐offs
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Abstract
The 3D reference interaction site model (3D-RISM) of molecular solvation is a powerful tool for computing the equilibrium thermodynamics and density distributions of solvents, such as water and co-ions, around solute molecules. However, 3D-RISM solutions can be expensive to calculate, especially for proteins and other large molecules where calculating the potential energy between solute and solvent requires more than half the computation time. To address this problem, we have developed and implemented treecode summation for long-range interactions and analytically corrected cut-offs for short-range interactions to accelerate the potential energy and long-range asymptotics calculations in non-periodic 3D-RISM in the AmberTools molecular modeling suite. For the largest single protein considered in this work, tubulin, the total computation time was reduced by a factor of 4. In addition, parallel calculations with these new methods scale almost linearly and the iterative solver remains the largest impediment to parallel scaling. To demonstrate the utility of our approach for large systems, we used 3D-RISM to calculate the solvation thermodynamics and density distribution of 7-ring microtubule, consisting of 910 tubulin dimers, over 1.2 million atoms.
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