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SuBMIT (Structure Based Models Input Toolkit) is a software toolkit designed to generate input files for coarse-grained structure-based model (CG-SBM) molecular dynamics simulations, compatible with widely used platforms GROMACS and OpenMM/OpenSMOG. These simplified computational models encode the structural information of biomolecules and have proven effective for studying long time-scale processes such as protein folding, RNA folding, and large conformational transitions that are otherwise computationally prohibitive with all-atom simulations. The toolkit supports multiple SBM variants and enables the study of complex systems including proteins with intrinsically disordered regions, 3D-domain-swapping proteins, and RNA-protein assemblies such as simple RNA viruses.
Why it matters
By lowering the technical barrier to implementing structure-based models, SuBMIT makes computationally accessible simulations available to a broader range of researchers who may lack the expertise to build these force fields from scratch. This could accelerate discoveries in protein folding mechanisms, RNA biology, and the structural dynamics of viral assemblies, with potential downstream implications for drug design and therapeutic targeting.
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Coarse-grained structure-based models (CG-SBMs; or G[o] models) are simplified potential energy functions of biomolecules or biomolecular complexes that encode their structure. Molecular dynamics simulations of such SBMs have been successfully used to study long time-scale dynamics such as protein and RNA folding, and large conformational transitions of biomolecular complexes. SBMs have several advantages: (1) Their MD simulations are computationally inexpensive, making extensive sampling easily accessible to many researchers. (2) They are easy to modify and can be adapted for the specific biomolecular problem that needs to be investigated. However, the force-fields of SBMs are not usually included in commonly used biomolecular simulation packages resulting in a barrier to their use. Here, we present SuBMIT (Structure Based Models Input Toolkit; https://github.com/sglabncbs/submit), a toolkit for generating coarse-grained SBM input files for performing MD simulations with GROMACS and OpenMM/OpenSMOG. Simulations whose input files can be generated using the different flavors of CG-SBMs present in SuBMIT include the folding and conformational ensembles of proteins with intrinsically disordered regions, 3D-domain-swapping in proteins and the dynamics of RNA-protein assemblies (e.g., simple RNA viruses).