Using metadynamics to explore complex free-energy landscapes

G Bussi, A Laio - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Metadynamics is an atomistic simulation technique that allows, within the same framework,
acceleration of rare events and estimation of the free energy of complex molecular systems …

RNA structural dynamics as captured by molecular simulations: a comprehensive overview

J Sponer, G Bussi, M Krepl, P Banáš, S Bottaro… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
With both catalytic and genetic functions, ribonucleic acid (RNA) is perhaps the most
pluripotent chemical species in molecular biology, and its functions are intimately linked to …

[HTML][HTML] Scalable molecular dynamics on CPU and GPU architectures with NAMD

JC Phillips, DJ Hardy, JDC Maia, JE Stone… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
NAMD is a molecular dynamics program designed for high-performance simulations of very
large biological objects on CPU-and GPU-based architectures. NAMD offers scalable …

Highly ion-permselective porous organic cage membranes with hierarchical channels

T Xu, B Wu, L Hou, Y Zhu, F Sheng… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Membranes of high ion permselectivity are significant for the separation of ion species at the
subnanometer scale. Here, we report porous organic cage (ie, CC3) membranes with …

Role of molecular dynamics and related methods in drug discovery

M De Vivo, M Masetti, G Bottegoni… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) and related methods are close to becoming routine computational
tools for drug discovery. Their main advantage is in explicitly treating structural flexibility and …

Kinetics from metadynamics: Principles, applications, and outlook

D Ray, M Parrinello - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Metadynamics is a popular enhanced sampling algorithm for computing the free energy
landscape of rare events by using molecular dynamics simulation. Ten years ago, Tiwary …

PLUMED 2: New feathers for an old bird

GA Tribello, M Bonomi, D Branduardi… - Computer physics …, 2014 - Elsevier
Enhancing sampling and analyzing simulations are central issues in molecular simulation.
Recently, we introduced PLUMED, an open-source plug-in that provides some of the most …

Machine learning force fields and coarse-grained variables in molecular dynamics: application to materials and biological systems

P Gkeka, G Stoltz, A Barati Farimani… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Machine learning encompasses tools and algorithms that are now becoming popular in
almost all scientific and technological fields. This is true for molecular dynamics as well …

Metadynamics

A Barducci, M Bonomi… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Metadynamics is a powerful technique for enhancing sampling in molecular dynamics
simulations and reconstructing the free‐energy surface as a function of few selected …

Towards operando computational modeling in heterogeneous catalysis

L Grajciar, CJ Heard, AA Bondarenko… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
An increased synergy between experimental and theoretical investigations in
heterogeneous catalysis has become apparent during the last decade. Experimental work …