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Over the last 10-15 years a general understanding of the chemical reaction of protein folding has emerged from statistical mechanics. The lessons learned from protein folding kinetics based on energy landscape ideas have benefited protein…

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A central goal of protein-folding theory is to predict the stochastic dynamics of transition paths --- the rare trajectories that transit between the folded and unfolded ensembles --- using only thermodynamic information, such as a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-09 William M. Jacobs , Eugene I. Shakhnovich

We explore the use of Physics Informed Neural Networks to analyse nonlinear Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems with a first integral of motion. In this work, we propose an architecture which combines existing Hamiltonian Neural Network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Vedanta Thapar

Accurate protein structure prediction from amino-acid sequences is critical to better understanding the protein function. Recent advances in this area largely benefit from more precise inter-residue distance and orientation predictions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jiaxiang Wu , Shitong Luo , Tao Shen , Haidong Lan , Sheng Wang , Junzhou Huang

Understanding how complex systems transition between states requires mapping the energy landscape that governs these changes. Local transition-state networks reveal the barrier architecture that explains observed behaviour and enables…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Qichen Xu , Anna Delin

A simple approach is proposed to investigate the protein structure. Using a low complexity model, a simple pairwise interaction and the concept of global optimization, we are able to calculate ground states of proteins, which are in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-26 F. Dressel , S. Kobe

We show how to speed up global optimization of molecular structures using machine learning methods. To represent the molecular structures we introduce the auto-bag feature vector that combines: i) a local feature vector for each atom, ii)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Søren A. Meldgaard , Esben L. Kolsbjerg , Bjørk Hammer

The calculation of thermodynamic properties of biochemical systems typically requires the use of resource-intensive molecular simulation methods. One example thereof is the thermodynamic profiling of hydration sites, i.e. high-probability…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-08 Ahmadreza Ghanbarpour , Amr H. Mahmoud , Markus A. Lill

Port-Hamiltonian neural networks have shown promising results in the identification of nonlinear dynamics of complex systems, as their combination of physical principles with data-driven learning allows for accurate modelling. However, due…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 G. J. E. van Otterdijk , S. Weiland , M. Schoukens

A major obstacle to non-convex optimization is the problem of getting stuck in local minima. We introduce a novel metaheuristic to handle this issue, creating an alternate Hamiltonian that shares minima with the original Hamiltonian only…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-06-29 Anuj Apte , Kunal Marwaha , Arvind Murugan

Protein-protein binding enables orderly and lawful biological self-organization, and is therefore considered a miracle of nature. Protein-protein binding is steered by electrostatic forces, hydrogen bonding, van der Waals force, and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-23 Lin Yang , Shuai Guo , Chengyu Hou , Chencheng Liao , Jiacheng Li , Liping Shi , Xiaoliang Ma , Shenda Jiang , Bing Zheng , Yi Fang , Lin Ye , Xiaodong He

Recently, we showed that optimization problems, both in infinite as well as in finite dimensions, for continuous variables and soft excluded volume constraints, can display entire isostatic phases where local minima of the cost function are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-08-27 Silvio Franz , Antonio Sclocchi , Pierfrancesco Urbani

The choice of structural resolution is a fundamental aspect of protein modelling, determining the balance between descriptive power and interpretability. Although atomistic simulations provide maximal detail, much of this information is…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-23 Margherita Mele , Raffaele Fiorentini , Thomas Tarenzi , Giovanni Mattiotti , Raffaello Potestio

Finding parameters that minimise a loss function is at the core of many machine learning methods. The Stochastic Gradient Descent algorithm is widely used and delivers state of the art results for many problems. Nonetheless, Stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Yao Zhang , Andrew M. Saxe , Madhu S. Advani , Alpha A. Lee

Nested sampling is a Bayesian sampling technique developed to explore probability distributions lo- calised in an exponentially small area of the parameter space. The algorithm provides both posterior samples and an estimate of the evidence…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-17 Nikolas S. Burkoff , Csilla Varnai , Stephen A. Wells , David L. Wild

Perturbed Hamming weight problems serve as examples of optimization instances for which the adiabatic algorithm provably out performs classical simulated annealing. In this work we study the efficiency of the adiabatic algorithm for solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 Linghang Kong , Elizabeth Crosson

The global optimization have the very extensive applications in econometrics, science and engineering. However, the global optimization for non-convex objective functions is particularly difficult since most of the existing global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-17 Da-Zheng Feng , Han-Zhe Feng , Hai-Qin Zhang

The analysis of the three-dimensional structure of proteins is an important topic in molecular biochemistry. Structure plays a critical role in defining the function of proteins and is more strongly conserved than amino acid sequence over…

Applications · Statistics 2015-01-19 Abel Rodriguez , Scott C. Schmidler

Protein structure prediction is considered as one of the most challenging and computationally intractable combinatorial problem. Thus, the efficient modeling of convoluted search space, the clever use of energy functions, and more…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Mahmood A. Rashid , Sumaiya Iqbal , Firas Khatib , Md Tamjidul Hoque , Abdul Sattar

Tailoring the functional properties of advanced organic/inorganic heterogeonous devices to their intended technological applications requires knowledge and control of the microscopic structure inside the device. Atomistic quantum mechanical…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-13 Milica Todorović , Michael U. Gutmann , Jukka Corander , Patrick Rinke