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This paper presents a molecular mechanics study using a molecular dynamics software (NAMD) coupled to virtual reality (VR) techniques for intuitive Bio-NanoRobotic prototyping. Using simulated Bio-Nano environments in VR, the operator can…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-08-15 Mustapha Hamdi , Gaurav Sharma , A. Ferreira , Constantinos Mavroidis

Machine-learned interatomic potentials can offer near first-principles accuracy but are computationally expensive, limiting their application to large-scale molecular dynamics simulations. Inspired by quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 Fraser Birks , Matthew Nutter , Thomas D Swinburne , James R Kermode

The sustainable production of many bulk chemicals relies on heterogeneous catalysis. The rational design or improvement of the required catalysts critically depends on insights into the underlying mechanisms at the atomic scale. In recent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Amir Omranpour , Jan Elsner , K. Nikolas Lausch , Jörg Behler

Unraveling the dynamical motions of biomolecules is essential for bridging their structure and function, yet it remains a major computational challenge. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation provides a detailed depiction of biomolecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-17 Allan dos Santos Costa , Manvitha Ponnapati , Dana Rubin , Tess Smidt , Joseph Jacobson

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…

Machine learning potentials have revolutionised the field of atomistic simulations in recent years and are becoming a mainstay in the toolbox of computational scientists. This paper aims to provide an overview and introduction into machine…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Fabian L. Thiemann , Niamh O'Neill , Venkat Kapil , Angelos Michaelides , Christoph Schran

The development of machine learning models has led to an abundance of datasets containing quantum mechanical (QM) calculations for molecular and material systems. However, traditional training methods for machine learning models are unable…

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

Molecular dynamics (MD) enables the study of physical systems with excellent spatiotemporal resolution but suffers from severe time-scale limitations. To address this, enhanced sampling methods have been developed to improve exploration of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-19 Shams Mehdi , Zachary Smith , Lukas Herron , Ziyue Zou , Pratyush Tiwary

Molecular dynamics simulations hold great promise for providing insight into the microscopic behavior of complex molecular systems. However, their effectiveness is often constrained by long timescales associated with rare events. Enhanced…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Kai Zhu , Enrico Trizio , Jintu Zhang , Renling Hu , Linlong Jiang , Tingjun Hou , Luigi Bonati

Machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) such as neuroevolution potentials (NEP) combine quantum-mechanical accuracy with computational efficiency significantly accelerate atomistic dynamic simulations. Trained by derivative-free…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-14 Hongfu Huang , Junhao Peng , Kaiqi Li , Jian Zhou , Zhimei Sun

Artificial neural networks (NNs) are one of the most frequently used machine learning approaches to construct interatomic potentials and enable efficient large-scale atomistic simulations with almost ab initio accuracy. However, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Viktor Zaverkin , David Holzmüller , Ingo Steinwart , Johannes Kästner

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable atomistic simulations with near ab initio accuracy at significantly reduced computational cost, but their broader adoption is often limited by fragmented tooling, limited scalability,…

Machine learning (ML) has become widely used in the development of interatomic potentials for molecular dynamics simulations. However, most ML potentials are still much slower than classical interatomic potentials and are usually trained…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-29 Aslak Fellman , Jesper Byggmästar , Fredric Granberg , Kai Nordlund , Flyura Djurabekova

Simulating interactions between non-spherical colloidal particles is computationally challenging due to the complex dependency of forces and energies on their geometry. We introduce and evaluate both descriptor-based and end-to-end models…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-22 B. Rusen Argun , Antonia Statt

With the rapid advancement of computational techniques, Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations have emerged as powerful tools in biomedical research, enabling in-depth investigations of biological systems at the atomic level. Among the diverse…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-05 Reza Bozorgpour

In the past two decades, machine learning potentials (MLP) have reached a level of maturity that now enables applications to large-scale atomistic simulations of a wide range of systems in chemistry, physics and materials science. Different…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-07-09 Emir Kocer , Tsz Wai Ko , Jörg Behler

This letter gives results on improving protein-ligand binding affinity predictions based on molecular dynamics simulations using machine learning potentials with a hybrid neural network potential and molecular mechanics methodology…

In recent years, machine learning (ML) surrogate models have emerged as an indispensable tool to accelerate simulations of physical and chemical processes. However, there is still a lack of ML models that can accurately predict molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Yuzhuo Chen , Sebastian V. Pios , Maxim F. Gelin , Lipeng Chen

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations employing classical force fields constitute the cornerstone of contemporary atomistic modeling in chemistry, biology, and materials science. However, the predictive power of these simulations is only as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Stefan Chmiela , Huziel E. Sauceda , Klaus-Robert Müller , Alexandre Tkatchenko