Treekin

Folding dynamics via numerical integration

The program treekin (Wolfinger et al., 2004) computes folding dynamics based on a given rate matrix. Usually, it operates on coarse grained versions of an energy landscape, where all conformations belonging to the same local minimum have been contracted into a single macro-state. treekin reads in the a list of local minima (macro-states) and effective refolding rates between these minima as computed by barriers –rates. Since the the number of macro-states is small (typically on the order of 100—1000), folding dynamics can be computed by direct numerical integration of the master equation conformations (i.e. diagonalization of the rate matrix).

References

2004

  1. journal-article
    Efficient computation of RNA folding dynamics
    Michael T Wolfinger, W Andreas Svrcek-Seiler, Christoph Flamm, and 2 more authors
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 2004