Table 1.

Simulated cytoplasmic systems.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19274.007

System	MGh	MGm1	MGm2	MGcg
Cubic box length (nm)	99.8	48.2	48.2	106.2
Program	GENESIS	GENESIS	NAMD	GENESIS
Simulation time	20 ns	140 ns	60 ns	10 × 20 μs
	number of molecules
Ribosomes	31	3	3	24
GroELs	20	3	3	24
Proteins	1238	182	133	1927
RNAs	284	28	44	298
Metabolites	41,006	5.005	5.072
Ions	214,000	23,049	27,415
Waters	26,263,505	2,944,143	2,893,830
Total # of atoms	103,708,785	11,737,298	11,706,962

See also Figure 1—figure supplement 3 showing initial configurations and supplementary material with lists of the individual molecular components.