From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Fri Dec 23 23:33:00 2005 From: "William Lingran Chen lchen|*|mdli.com" To: CCL Subject: CCL: Most important recent development in molecular modeling since 2000? Message-Id: <-30390-051223212023-26123-Wd6HoKTgIUg3tbYrWvCE2w*server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: William Lingran Chen Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:23:05 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: William Lingran Chen [lchen]_[mdli.com] Recently Perry post a news "Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have set a new world's record by performing the first million-atom computer simulation in biology." (10/24/2005). What are other most important progresses in the field of molecular modeling in this century (since 2000)? I am most interested in 1. New force fields, 2. Major improvement of the existing force fields, 3. New molecular modeling software, Thanks. Lingran