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hobbies

Mountain Lyfayette

Hiking to the Mountain Lafayette with friends from UMass Amherst.


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Riverview Hiking

Hiking to the Northfield Mountain Reservoir with a friend.


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publications

research

Prediction of infectivity-enhancing mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus S (spike) protein

which mutations can enhance the affinity to the cell receptor and thus present challenges for vaccine and antibody development?

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TMEM16F: an ion channel can scramble lipids

How can an ion channel transport lipid through the membrane bilayer?

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TRPV4: a thermosensitive non-selective cation channel

Which domain is the thermo-sensor of TRPV4? What is the mechanism behind the thermo-sensitivity of TRPV4?

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Al-powered modeling for generative ensembles

How do we generate conformational ensembles of proteins using generative Al models

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Studying Molecular mechanisms of protein functions using MD simulations

What is MD and why it is powerful to study protein structure-function relationship? Read more

resources

Contact analysis

Contact frequency analysis and visualization for MD simulation trajectories Read more

Secondary structure analysis using DSSP

use the STRIDE algorithm to assign helix, sheet and coil to protein structures or trajectories Read more

Secondary structure analysis using STRIED in VMD

use the STRIDE algorithm to assign helix, sheet and coil to protein structures or trajectories Read more

Intrinsically disordered protein trajectory analysis

This is a short tutorial of analyzing IDP (intrinsically disordered protein) trajectories. Prerequisites are the psf file (structural file) of your IDP system and the corresponding xtc (trajectory file). Read more

Important VMD tricks

In this article, I want to include some VMD tricks based on my personal experience. VMD provides an official documentation, which can be found here: VMD-documentation. Readers are suggested to refer to the VMD User’s Guide for more detailed information. Read more

Machine Learning basis

Contact frequency analysis and visualization for MD simulation trajectories Read more

Conda environment settings

This is a tutorial to:

  1. download and install conda – the environment and package management tool
  2. build a conda environment for computational biophysicist
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Quick Gnuplot tricks

Define your own line style

# example
set style line 1 lc rgb "#8b0000" lw 2
set style line 2 lc -1 pt 7 ps 0.9
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