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The internal dynamics of strongly interacting systems and that of biomolecules such as proteins display several important analogies, despite the huge difference in their characteristic energy and length scales. For example, in all such…

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Molecular dynamics is a valuable tool to probe biological processes at the atomistic level - a resolution often elusive to experiments. However, the credibility of molecular models is limited by the accuracy of the underlying force field,…

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In this paper, one of the major shortcomings of the conventional numerical approaches is alleviated by introducing the probabilistic nature of molecular transitions into the framework of classical computational electrodynamics. The main aim…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-01-24 Ali Reza Hashemi , Mahmood Hosseini-Farzad

The biomolecules in and around a living cell -- proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, carbohydrates -- continuously sample myriad conformational states that are thermally accessible at physiological temperatures. Simultaneously, a given…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-07-15 Cameron Mura , Charles E. McAnany

Molecular dynamics is a powerful tool for studying the thermodynamics and kinetics of complex molecular events. However, these simulations can rarely sample the required time scales in practice. Transition path sampling overcomes this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Gianmarco Lazzeri , Hendrik Jung , Peter G. Bolhuis , Roberto Covino

The convergence of statistical learning and molecular physics is transforming our approach to modeling biomolecular systems. Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) offers a systematic framework that integrates data-driven inference with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-11 Aaryesh Deshpande

The most important factor for quantitative results in molecular dynamics simulation are well developed force fields and models. In the present work, the development of new models and the usage of force fields from the literature in large…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-05-25 Jonathan Walter , Thorsten Merker , Martin Horsch , Jadran Vrabec , Hans Hasse

The next generation of force fields for molecular dynamics will be developed using a wealth of data. Training systematically with experimental data remains a challenge, however, especially for machine learning potentials. Differentiable…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-16 Joe G Greener

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation techniques are widely used for various natural science applications. Increasingly, machine learning (ML) force field (FF) models begin to replace ab-initio simulations by predicting forces directly from…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Xiang Fu , Zhenghao Wu , Wujie Wang , Tian Xie , Sinan Keten , Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli , Tommi Jaakkola

In this paper we review some recent results dealing with the transition between microscopic and macroscopic scales in different fields, including kinetic theory, cells movement in biology, chemotaxis, flocking phenomena and agent systems.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Thierry Paul

Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations will be able to reach sampling in the second timescale within five years, producing petabytes of simulation data at current force field accuracy. Notwithstanding this, MD will still be in the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-24 Adrià Pérez , Gerard Martínez-Rosell , Gianni De Fabritiis

Highly specific spatiotemporal interactions between cognate molecular partners essentially sustain all biochemical transactions in the living matter. That such an exquisite level of accuracy may result from encountering forces solely driven…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jordane Preto , Elena Floriani , Ilaria Nardecchia , Pierre Ferrier , Marco Pettini

Accurate molecular force fields are of paramount importance for the efficient implementation of molecular dynamics techniques at large scales. In the last decade, machine learning methods have demonstrated impressive performances in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Oriel Kiss , Francesco Tacchino , Sofia Vallecorsa , Ivano Tavernelli

Energy-based modelling brings engineering insight to the understanding of biomolecular systems. It is shown how well-established control engineering concepts, such as loop-gain, arise from energy feedback loops and are therefore amenable to…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-03-30 Peter J Gawthrop

An accurate force field is the key to the success of all molecular mechanics simulations on organic polymers and biomolecules. Accuracy beyond density functional theory is often needed to describe the intermolecular interactions, while most…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Xufei Wang , Yuanda Xu , Han Zheng , Kuang Yu

RNA function is intimately related to its structural dynamics. Molecular dynamics simulations are useful for exploring biomolecular flexibility but are severely limited by the accessible timescale. Enhanced sampling methods allow this…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-06 Vojtěch Mlýnský , Giovanni Bussi

With recent advances in structural biology, including experimental techniques and deep learning-enabled high-precision structure predictions, molecular dynamics methods that scale up to large biomolecular systems are required. Current…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-06-24 Tim Hempel , Simon Olsson , Frank Noé

We review recent studies dealing with the generation of machine learning models of molecular and solid properties. The models are trained and validated using standard quantum chemistry results obtained for organic molecules and materials…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-13 Raghunathan Ramakrishnan , O. Anatole von Lilienfeld

Photo-induced processes are fundamental in nature, but accurate simulations are seriously limited by the cost of the underlying quantum chemical calculations, hampering their application for long time scales. Here we introduce a method…

Integrative modeling of macromolecular assemblies allows for structural characterization of large assemblies that are recalcitrant to direct experimental observation. A Bayesian inference approach facilitates combining data from…

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