Memory unlocks the future of biomolecular dynamics: Transformative tools to uncover physical insights accurately and efficiently

AJ Dominic III, S Cao, A Montoya-Castillo… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conformational changes underpin function and encode complex biomolecular mechanisms.
Gaining atomic-level detail of how such changes occur has the potential to reveal these …

[HTML][HTML] Transition rate theory, spectral analysis, and reactive paths

B Roux - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The kinetics of a dynamical system dominated by two metastable states is examined from
the perspective of the activated-dynamics reactive flux formalism, Markov state eigenvalue …

String method with swarms-of-trajectories, mean drifts, lag time, and committor

B Roux - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2021 - ACS Publications
The kinetics of a dynamical system comprising two metastable states is formulated in terms
of a finite-time propagator in phase space (position and velocity) adapted to the …

Tyrosine kinases: complex molecular systems challenging computational methodologies

T Thomas, B Roux - The European Physical Journal B, 2021 - Springer
Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations based on atomic models play an
increasingly important role in a wide range of applications in physics, biology, and …

Dynamics of activation in the voltage-sensing domain of Ciona intestinalis phosphatase Ci-VSP

SC Guo, R Shen, B Roux, AR Dinner - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The Ciona intestinalis voltage-sensing phosphatase (Ci-VSP) is a membrane protein
containing a voltage-sensing domain (VSD) that is homologous to VSDs from voltage-gated …

Integrative generalized master equation: A method to study long-timescale biomolecular dynamics via the integrals of memory kernels

S Cao, Y Qiu, ML Kalin, X Huang - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The generalized master equation (GME) provides a powerful approach to study
biomolecular dynamics via non-Markovian dynamic models built from molecular dynamics …

Long-time-scale predictions from short-trajectory data: A benchmark analysis of the trp-cage miniprotein

J Strahan, A Antoszewski, C Lorpaiboon… - Journal of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Elucidating physical mechanisms with statistical confidence from molecular dynamics
simulations can be challenging owing to the many degrees of freedom that contribute to …

[HTML][HTML] Learning forecasts of rare stratospheric transitions from short simulations

J Finkel, RJ Webber, EP Gerber… - Monthly Weather …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Rare events arising in nonlinear atmospheric dynamics remain hard to predict and attribute.
We address the problem of forecasting rare events in a prototypical example, sudden …

EnGens: a computational framework for generation and analysis of representative protein conformational ensembles

A Conev, MM Rigo, D Devaurs… - Briefings in …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Proteins are dynamic macromolecules that perform vital functions in cells. A protein structure
determines its function, but this structure is not static, as proteins change their conformation …

Tutorial on how to build non-Markovian dynamic models from molecular dynamics simulations for studying protein conformational changes

Y Wu, S Cao, Y Qiu, X Huang - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Protein conformational changes play crucial roles in their biological functions. In recent
years, the Markov State Model (MSM) constructed from extensive Molecular Dynamics (MD) …