Hiroshi Wako

Prof. Hiroshi Wako


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Academic Career Length

51Years (1976-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 June 1978 in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
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HWHiroshi Wako
Hiroshi Wako
NSNobuhiko Saitô
Nobuhiko Saitô

1 June 1978 in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
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HWHiroshi Wako
Hiroshi Wako
NSNobuhiko Saitô
Nobuhiko Saitô

4 November 2017 in Biophysical Reviews
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Hiroshi Wako
SEShigeru Endo
Shigeru Endo

1 April 2004 in Bioinformatics
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Hiroshi Wako
MKMasaki Kato
Masaki Kato
SEShigeru Endo
Shigeru Endo
Motivation: Although information from protein dynamics simulation is important to understand principles of architecture of a protein structure and its function, simulations such as molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo are very CPU-intensive. Although the ability of normal mode analysis (NMA) is limited because of the need for a harmonic approximation on which NMA is based, NMA is adequate to carry out routine analyses on many proteins to compute aspects of the collective motions essential to protein dynamics and function. Furthermore, it is hoped that realistic animations of the protein dynamics can be observed easily without expensive software and hardware, and that the dynamic properties for various proteins can be compared with each other. Results:ProMode, a database collecting NMA results on protein molecules, was constructed. The NMA calculations are performed with a full-atom model, by using dihedral angles as independent variables, faster and more efficiently than the calculations using Cartesian coordinates. In ProMode, an animation of the normal mode vibration is played with a free plug-in, Chime (MDL Information Systems, Inc.). With the full-atom model, the realistic three-dimensional motions at an atomic level are displayed with Chime. The dynamic domains and their mutual screw motions defined from the NMA results are also displayed. Properties for each normal mode vibration and their time averages, e.g. fluctuations of atom positions, fluctuations of dihedral angles and correlations between the atomic motions, are also presented graphically for characterizing the collective motions in more detail. Availability:http://promode.socs.waseda.ac.jp


1 July 1987 in Journal of Computational Chemistry
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HWHiroshi Wako
Hiroshi Wako
NGNobuhiro Gō
Nobuhiro Gō