Validation of molecular simulation: an overview of issues

WF van Gunsteren, X Daura, N Hansen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Computer simulation of molecular systems enables structure–energy–function relationships
of molecular processes to be described at the sub‐atomic, atomic, supra‐atomic, or supra …

[HTML][HTML] The good, the bad and the user in soft matter simulations

J Wong-Ekkabut, M Karttunen - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2016 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become popular in materials science,
biochemistry, biophysics and several other fields. Improvements in computational resources …

Enhanced sampling in molecular dynamics

YI Yang, Q Shao, J Zhang, L Yang… - The Journal of chemical …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Although molecular dynamics simulations have become a useful tool in essentially all fields
of chemistry, condensed matter physics, materials science, and biology, there is still a large …

Pressure control using stochastic cell rescaling

M Bernetti, G Bussi - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular dynamics simulations require barostats to be performed at a constant pressure.
The usual recipe is to employ the Berendsen barostat first, which displays a first-order …

Enhanced sampling in molecular dynamics using metadynamics, replica-exchange, and temperature-acceleration

C Abrams, G Bussi - Entropy, 2013 - mdpi.com
We review a selection of methods for performing enhanced sampling in molecular dynamics
simulations. We consider methods based on collective variable biasing and on tempering …

Effects of temperature control algorithms on transport properties and kinetics in molecular dynamics simulations

JE Basconi, MR Shirts - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Temperature control algorithms in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are necessary to
study isothermal systems. However, these thermostatting algorithms alter the velocities of …

Anomalous effects of velocity rescaling algorithms: the flying ice cube effect revisited

E Braun, SM Moosavi, B Smit - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The flying ice cube effect is a molecular dynamics simulation artifact in which the use of
velocity rescaling thermostats sometimes causes violation of the equipartition theorem …

Molecular dynamics simulations of nucleic acids. From tetranucleotides to the ribosome

J Šponer, P Banáš, P Jurecka… - The journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We present a brief overview of explicit solvent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of
nucleic acids. We explain physical chemistry limitations of the simulations, namely, the …

Exchange often and properly in replica exchange molecular dynamics

DJ Sindhikara, DJ Emerson… - Journal of Chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Previous work by us showed that in replica exchange molecular dynamics, exchanges
should be attempted extremely often, providing gains in efficiency and no undesired effects …

Molecular dynamics simulations of heat conduction in nanostructures: effect of heat bath

J Chen, G Zhang, B Li - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2010 - journals.jps.jp
We investigate systematically the impacts of heat bath used in molecular dynamics
simulations on heat conduction in nanostructures exemplified by silicon nanowires (SiNWs) …