Chris Brasnett

Classification of containment hierarchy for point clouds in periodic space https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.06.668936v1

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The Martini 3 Lipidome: Expanded and Refined Parameters Improve Lipid Phase Behavior Lipid membranes are central to cellular life. Complementing experiments, computational modeling has been essential in unraveling complex lipid-biomolecule interactions, crucial in both academia and industry. The Martini model, a coarse-grained force field for efficient molecular dynamics simulations, is widely used to study membrane phenomena but has faced limitations, particularly in capturing realistic lipid phase behavior. Here, we present refined Martini 3 lipid models with a mapping scheme that distinguishes lipid tails that differ by just two carbon atoms, enhancing the structural resolution and thermodynamic accuracy of model membrane systems including ternary mixtures. The expanded Martini lipid library includes thousands of models, enabling simulations of complex and biologically relevant systems. These advancements establish Martini as a robust platform for lipid-based simulations across diverse fields.

Our collaborative work "The #Martini3 #Lipidome: Expanded and Refined Parameters Improve Lipid Phase Behavior" is now published in #ACSCentralScience! 🎉

📄 Read: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

💾 GitHub: github.com/Martini-Forc...

#MolecularDynamics #Biophysics #Simulations #Lipids

The Arsenal rescuing England

Really enjoyed this post, great writing about both the Tour and Bassons!

ONE NIL TO THE ARSENAL

ARSENAL ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE

and how is that monkey's paw you bought the other week doing?

GōMartini 3: From large conformational changes in proteins to environmental bias corrections - Nature Communications This work presents GōMartini 3, an improved coarse-grained protein model combining physics- and structure-based approaches. It boosts computational efficiency and accuracy for structured soluble and m...

GoGoGoGoGoGoGoMartini3 now finally published !
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pre-announcement: MARTINI tutorial workshop, August 11-15th 2025 in Groningen, The Netherlands !!
Learn basic and advanced Martini from the cocktail masters themselves. Registration will open soon.

She saw Declan Rice and really said: do it from open play

New preprint: TS2CG version 2, building and simulating membranes with any shape and lateral organisation. We got Martini Globe, Martini Möbius strip and again mitochondrion.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Thanks v much Adrien!

Happy that MartiniGlass has found a home in JCIM. I hope the tool will be useful for everyone in the user community, whether you’re trying to make nice coherent images of your system, or just make sense of instabilities!

We’re so back

Agreed with you on this before and happy to do so again! If you haven't already read it, would definitely recommend Dinner with Lenny by Jonathan Cott for a more interesting perspective on his life.

Why did the Little/Wälti substitution make such a difference this time when it’s usually so reliable?

They’ve gone for the old “a minute added on for every year this game has taken off my life” conversion

CGsmiles: A Versatile Line Notation for Molecular Representations Across Multiple Resolutions

Authors: Fabian Grünewald, Leif Seute, Riccardo Alessandri, Melanie König, Peter Kroon
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-vhbnq

🚀 First Bluesky Post! 🎉 VMD 2.0 Alpha is here! Released today at BPS 2025, this is the biggest update in 30 years—new UI, real-time ray tracing, fast surfaces, UHD & touchscreen support. Monthly updates coming in 2025! Try it now! #VMD #BPS2025 #MolecularVisualization
www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd...

with a natural history spin, the Naturalis museum in Leiden is curated approximately like this!

This picture >

Stinaaaaaaaaaaaa

I’m tired of hearing about bats. Do you want to hear a story about jumping spiders and the town that disappeared?

I think I might be breaking this story – do come be the first to read it.

Excited to announce the release of our preprint, "The Martini 3 Lipidome: Expanded and Refined Parameters Improve Lipid Phase Behavior", now available on @chemrxiv.bsky.social

👉 Read the full preprint here: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

always preferred two forks for eating, a vastly superior method

I watched it well after seeing your review (films out 2 weeks later in Netherlands) and went with low expectations. I thought it was better on a second viewing seeing it for what it was, but definitely agree there were hundreds of better stories than the one told!