Enhanced sampling methods for molecular dynamics simulations

J Hénin, T Lelièvre, MR Shirts, O Valsson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Enhanced sampling algorithms have emerged as powerful methods to extend the utility of
molecular dynamics simulations and allow the sampling of larger portions of the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Molecular dynamics

B Leimkuhler, C Matthews - Interdisciplinary applied mathematics, 2015 - Springer
For a number of years, we have been exploring the underpinnings of algorithms for
simulating molecular dynamics from a mathematics perspective, ie as outsiders. We have …

The adaptive biasing force method: Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask

J Comer, JC Gumbart, J Hénin, T Lelièvre… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
In the host of numerical schemes devised to calculate free energy differences by way of
geometric transformations, the adaptive biasing force algorithm has emerged as a promising …

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 …

Protein ensembles: how does nature harness thermodynamic fluctuations for life? The diverse functional roles of conformational ensembles in the cell

G Wei, W Xi, R Nussinov, B Ma - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
All soluble proteins populate conformational ensembles that together constitute the native
state. Their fluctuations in water are intrinsic thermodynamic phenomena, and the …

A time-independent free energy estimator for metadynamics

P Tiwary, M Parrinello - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2015 - ACS Publications
Metadynamics is a powerful and well-established enhanced sampling method for exploring
and quantifying free energy surfaces of complex systems as a function of appropriately …

Hyperactive learning for data-driven interatomic potentials

C van der Oord, M Sachs, DP Kovács… - npj Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
Data-driven interatomic potentials have emerged as a powerful tool for approximating ab
initio potential energy surfaces. The most time-consuming step in creating these interatomic …