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Optimizing chemical properties is a challenging task due to the vastness and complexity of chemical space. Here, we present a generative energy-based architecture for implicit chemical property optimization, designed to efficiently generate…

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In molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, force field determines the capability of an individual model in capturing physical and chemistry properties. The method for generating proper parameters of the force field form is the key component for…

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Understanding the dynamic behavior of biomolecules is fundamental to elucidating biological function and facilitating drug discovery. While Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations provide a rigorous physical basis for studying these dynamics,…

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Machine learned chemical potentials have shown great promise as alternatives to conventional computational chemistry methods to represent the potential energy of a given atomic or molecular system as a function of its geometry. However,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Christian Devereux , Yoona Yang , Carles Martí , Judit Zádor , Michael S. Eldred , Habib N. Najm

Ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) has proven to be an accurate approach for calculating thermal rate coefficients of various chemical reactions. For wider application of this methodology, efficient ways to generate the underlying…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ivan S. Novikov , Alexander V. Shapeev , Yury V. Suleimanov

We note that most existing approaches for molecular graph generation fail to guarantee the intrinsic property of permutation invariance, resulting in unexpected bias in generative models. In this work, we propose GraphEBM to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Meng Liu , Keqiang Yan , Bora Oztekin , Shuiwang Ji

Deep generative models have been applied with increasing success to the generation of two dimensional molecules as SMILES strings and molecular graphs. In this work we describe for the first time a deep generative model that can generate 3D…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Tomohide Masuda , Matthew Ragoza , David Ryan Koes

Popular methods for identifying transition paths between energy minima, such as the nudged elastic band and string methods, typically do not incorporate potential energy curvature information, leading to slow relaxation to the minimum…

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Synthesizability in generative molecular design remains a pressing challenge. Existing methods to assess synthesizability span heuristics-based methods, retrosynthesis models, and synthesizability-constrained molecular generation. The…

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The mechanisms of physical and chemical interactions of low temperature plasmas with surfaces can be fruitfully explored using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. MD simulations follow the detailed motion of sets of interacting atoms…

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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has long been the principal computational tool for exploring protein conformational landscapes and dynamics, but its application is limited by high computational cost. We present ProTDyn, a foundation…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Yikai Liu , Haoyang Zheng , Lining Mao , Yanbin Wang , Ming Chen , Guang Lin

We studied the possibility to approximate a Lennard Jones interaction by a pairwise contact potential. First we used a Lennard-Jones potential to design off-lattice, protein-like heteropolymer sequences, whose lowest energy (native)…

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We review the properties of biological motor proteins which move along linear filaments that are polar and periodic. The physics of the operation of such motors can be described by simple stochastic models which are coupled to a chemical…

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Casting neural networks in generative frameworks is a highly sought-after endeavor these days. Contemporary methods, such as Generative Adversarial Networks, capture some of the generative capabilities, but not all. In particular, they lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Or Sharir , Ronen Tamari , Nadav Cohen , Amnon Shashua

Machine learning plays an important and growing role in molecular simulation. The newest version of the OpenMM molecular dynamics toolkit introduces new features to support the use of machine learning potentials. Arbitrary PyTorch models…

Although generative models hold promise for discovering molecules with optimized desired properties, they often fail to suggest synthesizable molecules that improve upon the known molecules seen in training. We find that a key limitation is…

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The rational design of molecules with desired properties is a long-standing challenge in chemistry. Generative neural networks have emerged as a powerful approach to sample novel molecules from a learned distribution. Here, we propose a…

A general class of dynamical systems which can be trained to operate in classification and generation modes are introduced. A procedure is proposed to plant asymptotic stationary attractors of the deterministic model. Optimizing the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-15 Stefano Gagliani , Feliciano Giuseppe Pacifico , Lorenzo Chicchi , Duccio Fanelli , Diego Febbe , Lorenzo Buffoni , Raffaele Marino

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a widely-used tool for simulating the molecular and materials properties. It is a common wisdom that molecular dynamics simulations should obey physical laws and, hence, lots of effort is put into ensuring that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Lina Zhang , Yi-Fan Hou , Fuchun Ge , Pavlo O. Dral

Understanding molecular structure, dynamics, and reactivity requires bridging processes that occur across widely separated time scales. Conventional molecular dynamics simulations provide atomistic resolution, but their femtosecond time…

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