We develop and apply advanced computational methods to study RNA, the most intriguing actor in molecular biology. We are part of the Molecular and Statistical Biophysics group at SISSA.
Giovanni Bussi
Principal Investigator, Full Professor
- Email: bussi@sissa.it
- Phone: +39 040 3787 407
- Office: A-338, SISSA, via Bonomea 265, 34136 Trieste, Italy
- Explore our software on GitHub. Highlights:
- MDRefine, a package to perform refinement of molecular dynamics simulation trajectories.
- py-bussilab, a collection of Python tools.
- Thermostats/barostats:
- Stochastic velocity rescaling (a.k.a. v-rescale)
- Stochastic cell rescaling (a.k.a. c-rescale)
- PLUMED related links:
- RNA force fields are here (please checkout the correct branch)
- Find our open reviews in the news section
- Our previous webpage is available as a historical archive
Our research has been funded by the following sources:
- SISSA, institutional funds
- PNRR, National Centre for HPC, Big Data, and Quantum Computing
- MSCA, two post-doctoral fellowships (Multiscale Simulations of HIV capsid assembly and RNA and RNA Dynamics prediction with Diffusion Models)
- EMBO, one post-doctoral fellowship (ALTF 399-2022)
- PRIN, PRIN 2022, Hunting metal ions within cryo-EM derived RNA structures
- ERC, Starting Grant 2012, Small RNAs in silico
- FIRB, Futuro in Ricerca 2010
- CINECA and EuroHPC for computer time
