Advanced replica-exchange sampling to study the flexibility and plasticity of peptides and proteins

K Ostermeir, M Zacharias - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Proteins …, 2013 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are ideally suited to investigate protein and peptide
plasticity and flexibility simultaneously at high spatial (atomic) and high time resolution …

A classical equation that accounts for observations of non-Arrhenius and cryogenic grain boundary migration

ER Homer, OK Johnson, D Britton… - npj Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
Observations of microstructural coarsening at cryogenic temperatures, as well as numerous
simulations of grain boundary motion that show faster migration at low temperature than at …

Rapid equilibrium sampling initiated from nonequilibrium data

X Huang, GR Bowman, S Bacallado… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Simulating the conformational dynamics of biomolecules is extremely difficult due to the
rugged nature of their free energy landscapes and multiple long-lived, or metastable, states …

Exploring biomolecular dynamics and interactions using advanced sampling methods

M Luitz, R Bomblies, K Ostermeir… - Journal of Physics …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Molecular dynamics (MD) and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations have emerged as a valuable
tool to investigate statistical mechanics and kinetics of biomolecules and synthetic soft …

Error and efficiency of replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations

E Rosta, G Hummer - The Journal of chemical physics, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We derive simple analytical expressions for the error and computational efficiency of replica
exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) simulations (and by analogy replica exchange …

Simulating replica exchange: Markov state models, proposal schemes, and the infinite swapping limit

BW Zhang, W Dai, E Gallicchio, P He… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Replica exchange molecular dynamics is a multicanonical simulation technique commonly
used to enhance the sampling of solvated biomolecules on rugged free energy landscapes …

Conformational transitions and convergence of absolute binding free energy calculations

M Lapelosa, E Gallicchio, RM Levy - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The Binding energy distribution analysis method (BEDAM) is employed to compute the
standard binding free energies of a series of ligands to a FK506 binding protein (FKBP12) …

Adaptive partitioning by local density‐peaks: An efficient density‐based clustering algorithm for analyzing molecular dynamics trajectories

S Liu, L Zhu, FK Sheong, W Wang… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present an efficient density‐based adaptive‐resolution clustering method APLoD for
analyzing large‐scale molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories. APLoD performs the k‐nearest …

Asynchronous replica exchange software for grid and heterogeneous computing

E Gallicchio, J Xia, WF Flynn, B Zhang… - Computer physics …, 2015 - Elsevier
Parallel replica exchange sampling is an extended ensemble technique often used to
accelerate the exploration of the conformational ensemble of atomistic molecular …

Prediction of SAMPL3 host-guest affinities with the binding energy distribution analysis method (BEDAM)

E Gallicchio, RM Levy - Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 2012 - Springer
BEDAM calculations are described to predict the free energies of binding of a series of
anaesthetic drugs to a recently characterized acyclic cucurbituril host. The modeling …