Computational Analysis of Heavy Ion-DNA Interaction Using Molecular Dynamics Method

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We studied DNA damages in heavy ion irradiation for its radiotherapy using molecular dynamics (MD) method. We adopted semi-empirical hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) method of Amber in order to investigate the cleavage of chemical bond by heavy ion in our simulation. We found the cleavage of chemical bond, although the simulated energy of heavy ion turned out to be slightly higher than the one determined by experiment.

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