DeepWEST: Deep learning of kinetic models with the Weighted Ensemble Simulation Toolkit for enhanced sampling

AA Ojha, S Thakur, SH Ahn… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in computational power and algorithms have enabled molecular dynamics
(MD) simulations to reach greater time scales. However, for observing conformational …

Accelerated estimation of long-timescale kinetics from weighted ensemble simulation via non-Markovian “microbin” analysis

J Copperman, DM Zuckerman - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The weighted ensemble (WE) simulation strategy provides unbiased sampling of
nonequilibrium processes, such as molecular folding or binding, but the extraction of rate …

Choice of adaptive sampling strategy impacts state discovery, transition probabilities, and the apparent mechanism of conformational changes

MI Zimmerman, JR Porter, X Sun, RR Silva… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Interest in atomically detailed simulations has grown significantly with recent advances in
computational hardware and Markov state modeling (MSM) methods, yet outstanding …

AWE-WQ: fast-forwarding molecular dynamics using the accelerated weighted ensemble

B Abdul-Wahid, H Feng, D Rajan… - Journal of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A limitation of traditional molecular dynamics (MD) is that reaction rates are difficult to
compute. This is due to the rarity of observing transitions between metastable states since …

[HTML][HTML] Efficiently sampling conformations and pathways using the concurrent adaptive sampling (CAS) algorithm

SH Ahn, JW Grate, EF Darve - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular dynamics simulations are useful in obtaining thermodynamic and kinetic
properties of bio-molecules, but they are limited by the time scale barrier. That is, we may not …

Accelerated simulations of molecular systems through learning of effective dynamics

PR Vlachas, J Zavadlav, M Praprotnik… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Simulations are vital for understanding and predicting the evolution of complex molecular
systems. However, despite advances in algorithms and special purpose hardware …

WESTPA 2.0: High-performance upgrades for weighted ensemble simulations and analysis of longer-timescale applications

JD Russo, S Zhang, JMG Leung… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The weighted ensemble (WE) family of methods is one of several statistical mechanics-
based path sampling strategies that can provide estimates of key observables (rate …

Gaussian-accelerated molecular dynamics with the weighted ensemble method: A hybrid method improves thermodynamic and kinetic sampling

SH Ahn, AA Ojha, RE Amaro… - Journal of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Gaussian-accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) is a well-established enhanced
sampling method for molecular dynamics simulations that effectively samples the potential …

Adaptive sampling methods for molecular dynamics in the era of machine learning

DE Kleiman, H Nadeem, D Shukla - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are fundamental computational tools for the study of
proteins and their free energy landscapes. However, sampling protein conformational …

Unbiasing Enhanced Sampling on a High-Dimensional Free Energy Surface with a Deep Generative Model

Y Liu, TK Ghosh, G Lin, M Chen - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Biased enhanced sampling methods that utilize collective variables (CVs) are powerful tools
for sampling conformational ensembles. Due to their large intrinsic dimensions, efficiently …