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Overview

Pavel Banáš is affiliated with Palacký University, Olomouc in the Czech Republic. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular emphasis on molecular biology as a subfield.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • DNA and nucleic acid chemistry
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • RNA research and splicing
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • RNA interference and gene delivery

The publication record of Pavel Banáš features several articles in well-known scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Small
  • Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Their recent scholarly papers include the following:

  • Toward Convergence in Folding Simulations of RNA Tetraloops: Comparison of Enhanced Sampling Techniques and Effects of Force Field Modifications, 2022, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Fine-Tuning of the AMBER RNA Force Field with a New Term Adjusting Interactions of Terminal Nucleotides, 2020, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • UUCG RNA Tetraloop as a Formidable Force-Field Challenge for MD Simulations, 2020, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • W-RESP: Well-Restrained Electrostatic Potential-Derived Charges. Revisiting the Charge Derivation Model, 2021, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Sensitivity of the RNA Structure to Ion Conditions as Probed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Common Canonical RNA Duplexes, 2023, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Michal Otyepka
  • Jiří Šponer
  • Petra Kührová
  • Vojtěch Mlýnský
  • Miroslav Krepl

Best Publications

  • Refinement of the Cornell et al. Nucleic Acids Force Field Based on Reference Quantum Chemical Calculations of Glycosidic Torsion Profiles

    Marie Zgarbová;Michal Otyepka;Michal Otyepka;Jiří Šponer;Jiří Šponer;Arnošt Mládek

  • Promoting transparency and reproducibility in enhanced molecular simulations

    M. Bonomi;M. Bonomi;B. Giovanni;C. Camilloni;G.A. Tribello

  • CAVER: a new tool to explore routes from protein clefts, pockets and cavities

    Martin Petřek;Michal Otyepka;Pavel Banáš;Pavlína Košinová

  • RNA Structural Dynamics As Captured by Molecular Simulations: A Comprehensive Overview.

    Jiří Šponer;Giovanni Bussi;Miroslav Krepl;Miroslav Krepl;Pavel Banáš

  • Performance of Molecular Mechanics Force Fields for RNA Simulations: Stability of UUCG and GNRA Hairpins

    Pavel Banáš;Daniel Hollas;Marie Zgarbová;Petr Jurečka

  • MOLE 2.0: advanced approach for analysis of biomacromolecular channels

    David Sehnal;David Sehnal;Radka Svobodová Vařeková;Karel Berka;Lukáš Pravda

  • Redesigning Dehalogenase Access Tunnels as a Strategy for Degrading an Anthropogenic Substrate.

    Martina Pavlova;Martin Klvana;Zbynek Prokop;Radka Chaloupkova

  • Reference simulations of noncanonical nucleic acids with different χ variants of the AMBER force field: quadruplex DNA, quadruplex RNA and Z-DNA

    Miroslav Krepl;Marie Zgarbová;Petr Stadlbauer;Michal Otyepka

  • Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Nucleic Acids. From Tetranucleotides to the Ribosome.

    Jiří Šponer;Jiří Šponer;Pavel Banáš;Petr Jurečka;Marie Zgarbová

  • MOLEonline 2.0: interactive web-based analysis of biomacromolecular channels

    Karel Berka;Ondřej Hanák;David Sehnal;Pavel Banáš

  • Computer Folding of RNA Tetraloops: Identification of Key Force Field Deficiencies.

    Petra Kührová;Robert B. Best;Sandro Bottaro;Giovanni Bussi

  • Explicit Water Models Affect the Specific Solvation and Dynamics of Unfolded Peptides While the Conformational Behavior and Flexibility of Folded Peptides Remain Intact

    Petra Florová;Petr Sklenovský;Pavel Banáš;Michal Otyepka

  • Improving the Performance of the Amber RNA Force Field by Tuning the Hydrogen-Bonding Interactions.

    Petra Kührová;Vojtěch Mlýnský;Marie Zgarbová;Miroslav Krepl

  • Nature and magnitude of aromatic base stacking in DNA and RNA: Quantum chemistry, molecular mechanics, and experiment.

    Jiří Šponer;Jiří Šponer;Judit E. Šponer;Judit E. Šponer;Arnošt Mládek;Arnošt Mládek;Petr Jurečka

  • Anatomy of Enzyme Channels

    Lukáš Pravda;Karel Berka;Radka Svobodová Vařeková;David Sehnal;David Sehnal

  • Reactivity of Fluorographene: A Facile Way toward Graphene Derivatives.

    Matúš Dubecký;Eva Otyepková;Petr Lazar;František Karlický

  • Folding of guanine quadruplex molecules-funnel-like mechanism or kinetic partitioning? An overview from MD simulation studies.

    Jiří Šponer;Jiří Šponer;Giovanni Bussi;Petr Stadlbauer;Petra Kührová

  • Theoretical studies of RNA catalysis: hybrid QM/MM methods and their comparison with MD and QM.

    Pavel Banáš;Petr Jurečka;Petr Jurečka;Nils G. Walter;Jiří Šponer;Jiří Šponer

  • Free Energy Landscape of GAGA and UUCG RNA Tetraloops

    Sandro Bottaro;Pavel Banáš;Jiří Šponer;Jiří Šponer;Giovanni Bussi

  • Extensive molecular dynamics simulations showing that canonical G8 and protonated A38H+ forms are most consistent with crystal structures of hairpin ribozyme.

    Vojtěch Mlýnský;Pavel Banáš;Daniel Hollas;Kamila Réblová

  • Can We Execute Stable Microsecond-Scale Atomistic Simulations of Protein-RNA Complexes?

    Miroslav Krepl;Marek Havrila;Petr Stadlbauer;Pavel Banáš

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiří Šponer
Jiří Šponer Masaryk University
Michal Otyepka
Michal Otyepka Palacký University, Olomouc
Petr Jurečka
Petr Jurečka Palacký University, Olomouc
Nils G. Walter
Nils G. Walter University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jaroslav Koča
Jaroslav Koča Central European Institute of Technology
Robert B. Best
Robert B. Best National Institutes of Health
Thomas E. Cheatham
Thomas E. Cheatham University of Utah
Yuji Nagata
Yuji Nagata Tohoku University
Stephen Neidle
Stephen Neidle University College London
Qiang Li
Qiang Li Brookhaven National Laboratory

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