Enhanced sampling with machine learning

S Mehdi, Z Smith, L Herron, Z Zou… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Molecular dynamics (MD) enables the study of physical systems with excellent
spatiotemporal resolution but suffers from severe timescale limitations. To address this …

Open-source machine learning in computational chemistry

A Hagg, KN Kirschner - Journal of Chemical Information and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The field of computational chemistry has seen a significant increase in the integration of
machine learning concepts and algorithms. In this Perspective, we surveyed 179 open …

Alphafold2-rave: From sequence to boltzmann ranking

BP Vani, A Aranganathan, D Wang… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
While AlphaFold2 is rapidly being adopted as a new standard in protein structure
predictions, it is limited to single structures. This can be insufficient for the inherently …

Driving and characterizing nucleation of urea and glycine polymorphs in water

Z Zou, ER Beyerle, ST Tsai… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Crystal nucleation is relevant across the domains of fundamental and applied sciences.
However, in many cases, its mechanism remains unclear due to a lack of temporal or spatial …

Attention-based generative models for de novo molecular design

O Dollar, N Joshi, DAC Beck, J Pfaendtner - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Attention mechanisms have led to many breakthroughs in sequential data modeling but
have yet to be incorporated into any generative algorithms for molecular design. Here we …

Thermodynamics-inspired explanations of artificial intelligence

S Mehdi, P Tiwary - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
In recent years, predictive machine learning models have gained prominence across
various scientific domains. However, their black-box nature necessitates establishing trust in …

An efficient path classification algorithm based on variational autoencoder to identify metastable path channels for complex conformational changes

Y Qiu, MS O'Connor, M Xue, B Liu… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conformational changes (ie, dynamic transitions between pairs of conformational states)
play important roles in many chemical and biological processes. Constructing the Markov …

Exploring kinase asp-phe-gly (dfg) loop conformational stability with alphafold2-rave

BP Vani, A Aranganathan, P Tiwary - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Kinases compose one of the largest fractions of the human proteome, and their misfunction
is implicated in many diseases, in particular, cancers. The ubiquitousness and structural …

Exploring and learning the universe of protein allostery using artificial intelligence augmented biophysical and computational approaches

S Agajanian, M Alshahrani, F Bai, P Tao… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Allosteric mechanisms are commonly employed regulatory tools used by proteins to
orchestrate complex biochemical processes and control communications in cells. The …

Accelerating all-atom simulations and gaining mechanistic understanding of biophysical systems through state predictive information bottleneck

S Mehdi, D Wang, S Pant, P Tiwary - Journal of chemical theory …, 2022 - ACS Publications
An effective implementation of enhanced sampling algorithms for molecular dynamics
simulations requires a priori knowledge of the approximate reaction coordinate describing …