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Life science
Computational modelling and simulation are increasingly becoming
indispensable tools in various branches of life sciences, covering
biological processes that transcend many scales in both length and time.
Nowadays, we find essential input from modelling in bioareas as different
as population dynamics of species, protein folding and catalytic processes
at a scale where each atom makes a difference.
Sample project
Structures, properties and catalytic activity of biological radicals and enzymes
Quantum chemical methods have been used in studies of the reaction
associated with DNA repair by Spore Photoproduct Lyase (SPL). At the theoretical
chemistry group in the department of Biotechnology we have examined the
thermodynamic feasibility of this reaction scheme by means of DFT calculations,
see the figure for a model of the damaged DNA dimer.
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