CoSIMS: An Optimized Trajectory-Based Collision Simulator for Ion Mobility Spectrometry
CoSIMS: An Optimized Trajectory-Based Collision Simulator for Ion Mobility Spectrometry
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CoSIMS:用于离子淌度谱分析的基于优化轨迹的碰撞模拟器
DOI:
10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b01018
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发表时间:
2019
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Chen, Alan A.
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作者:
Myers, Christopher A.;D’Esposito, Rebecca J.;Fabris, Daniele;Ranganathan, Srivathsan V.;Chen, Alan A.
A new, multithreaded, trajectory method based software platform, CoSIMS, is revealed and compared to reference MOBCAL collision cross sections (CCS). CoSIMS employs various molecular mechanics algorithms to lessen the computational resources required to simulate thousands of buffer gas–ion collisions, including the neglect of London dispersion interactions at long distances and the removal of trajectories that insignificantly contribute to the total CCS via an ellipsoidal projection approximation. The showcased program is used to calculate the collision cross sections of carbon fullerenes, proteins, and DNA strands of various lengths, sizes, and molecular weights, and these are compared against the CCSs calculated by MOBCAL. Through this analysis, it is shown that the application of the aforementioned algorithms enables both faster and more reasonable CCS calculations than MOBCAL for highly elongated molecules such as nucleic acids; for all other molecules, CoSIMS is able to reproduce the CCSs generated by MOBCAL’s trajectory method within a few percent. Overall, CoSIMS is able to calculate nearly identical CCSs as MOBCAL in nearly 2 orders of magnitude less CPU time due to the various numerical methods implemented into the software, even when run on a single CPU core.