Markov state models: From an art to a science

BE Husic, VS Pande - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018 - ACS Publications
Markov state models (MSMs) are a powerful framework for analyzing dynamical systems,
such as molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, that have gained widespread use over the …

Dynamical reweighting for biased rare event simulations

BG Keller, PG Bolhuis - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Dynamical reweighting techniques aim to recover the correct molecular dynamics from a
simulation at a modified potential energy surface. They are important for unbiasing …

Folding@ home: Achievements from over 20 years of citizen science herald the exascale era

VA Voelz, VS Pande, GR Bowman - Biophysical journal, 2023 - cell.com
Simulations of biomolecules have enormous potential to inform our understanding of biology
but require extremely demanding calculations. For over 20 years, the Folding@ home …

Transferable neural networks for enhanced sampling of protein dynamics

MM Sultan, HK Wayment-Steele… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Variational autoencoder frameworks have demonstrated success in reducing complex
nonlinear dynamics in molecular simulation to a single nonlinear embedding. In this work …

The maximum caliber variational principle for nonequilibria

K Ghosh, PD Dixit, L Agozzino… - Annual review of physical …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Ever since Clausius in 1865 and Boltzmann in 1877, the concepts of entropy and of its
maximization have been the foundations for predicting how material equilibria derive from …

Perspective: Maximum caliber is a general variational principle for dynamical systems

PD Dixit, J Wagoner, C Weistuch, S Pressé… - The Journal of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We review here Maximum Caliber (Max Cal), a general variational principle for inferring
distributions of paths in dynamical processes and networks. Max Cal is to dynamical …

Variational selection of features for molecular kinetics

MK Scherer, BE Husic, M Hoffmann, F Paul… - The Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The modeling of atomistic biomolecular simulations using kinetic models such as Markov
state models (MSMs) has had many notable algorithmic advances in recent years. The …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive Markov state model estimation using short reseeding trajectories

H Wan, VA Voelz - The Journal of chemical physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In the last decade, advances in molecular dynamics (MD) and Markov State Model (MSM)
methodologies have made possible accurate and efficient estimation of kinetic rates and …

Towards simple kinetic models of functional dynamics for a kinase subfamily

MM Sultan, G Kiss, VS Pande - Nature chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
Kinases are ubiquitous enzymes involved in the regulation of critical cellular pathways.
However, in silico modelling of the conformational ensembles of these enzymes is difficult …

Advanced simulation techniques for the thermodynamic and kinetic characterization of biological systems

C Camilloni, F Pietrucci - Advances in Physics: X, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This review discusses successful strategies and key open problems in the kinetic and
thermodynamic characterization of complex biomolecular systems by computer simulations …