The Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) is one important implicit solvent continuum model for calculating electrostatics of protein in ionic solvent. We recently developed a PBE solver library, called SDPBS, that incorporates the finite element, finite difference, solution decomposition, domain decomposition, and multigrid methods. To make SDPBS more accessible to the scientific community, we present an SDPBS web server in this paper that allows clients to visualize and manipulate the molecular structure of a biomolecule, and to calculate PBE solutions in a remote and user friendly fashion. The web server is available on the website https://lsextrnprod.uwm.edu/electrostatics/.
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author = {Yi Jiang and Yang Xie and Jinyong Ying and Dexuan Xie and Zeyun Yu},
title = {SDPBS Web Server for Calculation of Electrostatics of Ionic Solvated Biomolecules},
journal = {Molecular Based Mathematical Biology},
volume = {3},
year = {2015},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.doi-10_1515_mlbmb-2015-0011}
}
Yi Jiang; Yang Xie; Jinyong Ying; Dexuan Xie; Zeyun Yu. SDPBS Web Server for Calculation of Electrostatics of Ionic Solvated Biomolecules. Molecular Based Mathematical Biology, Tome 3 (2015) . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.doi-10_1515_mlbmb-2015-0011/
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