PDB4DNA: Implementation of DNA geometry from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) description for Geant4-DNA Monte-Carlo simulations

نویسندگان

  • E. Delage
  • Q. T. Pham
  • Mathieu Karamitros
  • Henri Payno
  • V. Stepan
  • Sébastien Incerti
  • Lydia Maigne
  • Yann Perrot
چکیده

This paper describes PDB4DNA, a new Geant4 user application, based on an independent, crossplatform, free and open source C++ library, so-called PDBlib, which enables use of atomic level description of DNA molecule in Geant4 Monte Carlo particle transport simulations. For the evaluation 15 of direct damage induced on the DNA molecule by ionizing particles, the application makes use of an algorithm able to determine the closest atom in the DNA molecule to energy depositions. Both the PDB4DNA application and the PDBlib library are available as free and open source under the Geant4 license. Program summary 20 Title: PDB4DNA URL: http://pdb4dna.in2p3.fr Licensing provisions: Geant4 license, http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/license/LICENSE.html Programming language: C++ Operating system: cross-platform 25

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Computer Physics Communications

دوره 192  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015