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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Descriptor-Free Collective Variables from Geometric Graph Neural Networks

J Zhang, L Bonati, E Trizio, O Zhang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Enhanced sampling simulations make the computational study of rare events feasible. A
large family of such methods crucially depends on the definition of some collective variables …

tICA-Metadynamics for Identifying Slow Dynamics in Membrane Permeation

M Oh, GCA Da Hora, JMJ Swanson - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular simulations are commonly used to understand the mechanism of membrane
permeation of small molecules, particularly for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications …

From byte to bench to bedside: molecular dynamics simulations and drug discovery

M Ahmed, AM Maldonado, JD Durrant - BMC biology, 2023 - Springer
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and computer-aided drug design (CADD) have
advanced substantially over the past two decades, thanks to continuous computer hardware …

JARVIS-Leaderboard: a large scale benchmark of materials design methods

K Choudhary, D Wines, K Li, KF Garrity… - npj Computational …, 2024 - nature.com
Lack of rigorous reproducibility and validation are significant hurdles for scientific
development across many fields. Materials science, in particular, encompasses a variety of …

Reaction coordinates for conformational transitions using linear discriminant analysis on positions

S Sasmal, M McCullagh, GM Hocky - Journal of chemical theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this work, we demonstrate that Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) applied to atomic
positions in two different states of a biomolecule produces a good reaction coordinate …