Improve Research Reproducibility A Bio-protocol resource
Concise Method
tooltip

XDLVO simulations

CB Céline Burel
RD Rémi Dreyfus
LP Laura Purevdorj-Gage
request Request a Protocol
ask Ask a question
Favorite

Our simulation model is based on an extended DLVO13,16–19 (XDLVO) model. It relies on the seminal model for studying the aggregation of colloids. In the DLVO model, two main interaction potential are considered: the Van der Waals interaction energy13 (VdW) and the electrostatic repulsion interaction16. The XDLVO model incorporated two additional interactions: an attractive hydrophobic interaction13,17 and repulsive steric interactions13. The energy landscape was computed and the energy minimum was extracted. From the value of the minimum of energy, the percentages of bacterial populations either in singlets or in aggregates were calculated18,19 (see the Supplementary information section for more details).

Copyright and License information: The Author(s) ©2021
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Do you have any questions about this protocol?

Post your question to gather feedback from the community. We will also invite the authors of this article to respond.

post Post a Question
0 Q&A