scholarly journals Normal Mode Analysis as a Routine Part of a Structural Investigation

Author(s):  
Jacob A Bauer ◽  
Jelena Pavlović ◽  
Vladena Bauerová-Hlinková
Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (18) ◽  
pp. 3293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob A. Bauer ◽  
Jelena Pavlović ◽  
Vladena Bauerová-Hlinková

Normal mode analysis (NMA) is a technique that can be used to describe the flexible states accessible to a protein about an equilibrium position. These states have been shown repeatedly to have functional significance. NMA is probably the least computationally expensive method for studying the dynamics of macromolecules, and advances in computer technology and algorithms for calculating normal modes over the last 20 years have made it nearly trivial for all but the largest systems. Despite this, it is still uncommon for NMA to be used as a component of the analysis of a structural study. In this review, we will describe NMA, outline its advantages and limitations, explain what can and cannot be learned from it, and address some criticisms and concerns that have been voiced about it. We will then review the most commonly used techniques for reducing the computational cost of this method and identify the web services making use of these methods. We will illustrate several of their possible uses with recent examples from the literature. We conclude by recommending that NMA become one of the standard tools employed in any structural study.


2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (28n30) ◽  
pp. 3865-3868 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. MIYAOKA ◽  
T. KUZE ◽  
H. SANO ◽  
H. MORI ◽  
G. MIZUTANI ◽  
...  

We have obtained the Raman spectra of TiCl n (n= 2, 3, and 4). Assignments of the observed Raman bands were made by a normal mode analysis. The force constants were determined from the observed Raman band frequencies. We have found that the Ti-Cl stretching force constant increases as the oxidation number of the Ti species increases.


2020 ◽  
Vol 153 (21) ◽  
pp. 215103
Author(s):  
Alexander Klinger ◽  
Dominik Lindorfer ◽  
Frank Müh ◽  
Thomas Renger

2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayan K. Chakrabarti ◽  
Pulak Ranjan Giri ◽  
Kumar S. Gupta

2016 ◽  
Vol 120 (33) ◽  
pp. 8276-8288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin-Qiu Yao ◽  
Lars Skjærven ◽  
Barry J. Grant

2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (9) ◽  
pp. 2361-2371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang Hu ◽  
Servaas Michielssens ◽  
Samuel L. C. Moors ◽  
Arnout Ceulemans

1989 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Scheffel ◽  
Bo Lehnert

The classical phenomenon of electron plasma oscillations has been investigated from new aspects. The applicability of standard normal-mode analysis of plasma perturbations has been judged from comparisons with exact numerical solutions to the linearized initial-value problem. We consider both Maxwellian and non-Maxwellian velocity distributions. Emphasis is on perturbations for which αλD is of order unity, where α is the wavenumber and λD the Debye distance. The corresponding large-Debye-distance (LDD) damping is found to substantially dominate over Landau damping. This limits the applicability of normal-mode analysis of non-Maxwellian distributions. The physics of LDD damping and its close connection to large-Larmor-radius (LLR) damping is discussed. A major discovery concerns perturbations of plasmas with non-Maxwellian, bump-in-tail, velocity distribution functions f0(ω). For sufficiently large αλD (of order unity) the plasma responds by damping perturbations that are initially unstable in the Landau sense, i.e. with phase velocities initially in the interval where df0/dw > 0. It is found that the plasma responds through shifting the phase velocity above the upper velocity limit of this interval. This is shown to be due to a resonance with the drifting electrons of the bump, and explains the Penrose criterion.


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