Methods for Monte Carlo simulations of biomacromolecules

A Vitalis, RV Pappu - Annual reports in computational chemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
The state-of-the-art for Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of biomacromolecules is reviewed.
Available methodologies for sampling conformational equilibria and associations of …

Discrete path sampling

DJ Wales - Molecular physics, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
A theoretical framework is developed for the calculation of rate constants by sampling
connected pathways composed of local minima and transition states that link them together …

Small-world view of the amino acids that play a key role in protein folding

M Vendruscolo, NV Dokholyan, E Paci, M Karplus - Physical Review E, 2002 - APS
We use geometrical considerations to provide a different perspective on the fact that a few
selected amino acids, the so-called “key residues,” act as nucleation centers for protein …

Some further applications of discrete path sampling to cluster isomerization

DJ Wales* - Molecular physics, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
The discrete path sampling approach is applied to analyse the dynamics of several atomic
and molecular clusters. Permutational isomerization rates are first calculated for icosahedral …

Constrained geometric simulation of diffusive motion in proteins

S Wells, S Menor, B Hespenheide, MF Thorpe - Physical Biology, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe a new computational method, FRODA (framework rigidity optimized dynamic
algorithm), for exploring the internal mobility of proteins. The rigid regions in the protein are …

A framework for adaptive MCMC targeting multimodal distributions

E Pompe, C Holmes, K Łatuszyński - 2020 - projecteuclid.org
Supplement to “A framework for adaptive MCMC targeting multimodal distributions”. In
Supplementary Material A we present the proofs of our theoretical results of Section 3 and …

Emerging Directions in Bayesian Computation

S Winter, T Campbell, L Lin, S Srivastava… - Statistical …, 2024 - projecteuclid.org
Bayesian models are powerful tools for studying complex data, allowing the analyst to
encode rich hierarchical dependencies and leverage prior information. Most importantly …

Perspective: Insight into reaction coordinates and dynamics from the potential energy landscape

DJ Wales - The Journal of chemical physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
This perspective focuses on conceptual and computational aspects of the potential energy
landscape framework. It has two objectives: first to summarise some key developments of …

Binding modes of ligands using enhanced sampling (BLUES): rapid decorrelation of ligand binding modes via nonequilibrium candidate Monte Carlo

SC Gill, NM Lim, PB Grinaway… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Accurately predicting protein–ligand binding affinities and binding modes is a major goal in
computational chemistry, but even the prediction of ligand binding modes in proteins poses …

Wormhole hamiltonian monte carlo

S Lan, J Streets, B Shahbaba - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2014 - ojs.aaai.org
In machine learning and statistics, probabilistic inference involving multimodal distributions
is quite difficult. This is especially true in high dimensional problems, where most existing …