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In order to improve the accuracy of molecular dynamics simulations, classical force fields are supplemented with a kernel-based machine learning method trained on quantum-mechanical fragment energies. As an example application, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-12 Joshua T. Berryman , Amirhossein Taghavi , Florian Mazur , Alexandre Tkatchenko

Accurate force fields are necessary for predictive molecular simulations. However, developing force fields that accurately reproduce experimental properties is challenging. Here, we present a machine learning directed, multiobjective…

Molecular mechanics (MM) potentials have long been a workhorse of computational chemistry. Leveraging accuracy and speed, these functional forms find use in a wide variety of applications in biomolecular modeling and drug discovery, from…

An adaptive modeling method (AMM) that couples a deep neural network potential and a classical force field is introduced to address the accuracy-efficiency dilemma faced by the molecular simulation community. The AMM simulated system is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Linfeng Zhang , Han Wang , Weinan E

Developing physics-based models for molecular simulation requires fitting many unknown parameters to diverse experimental datasets. Traditionally, this process is piecemeal and difficult to reproduce, leading to a fragmented landscape of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Ryan K. Krueger , Megan C. Engel , Ryan Hausen , Michael P. Brenner

Machine learning force fields show great promise in enabling more accurate molecular dynamics simulations compared to manually derived ones. Much of the progress in recent years was driven by exploiting prior knowledge about physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Andreas Burger , Luca Thiede , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Nandita Vijaykumar

The process of RNA base fraying (i.e. the transient opening of the termini of a helix) is involved in many aspects of RNA dynamics. We here use molecular dynamics simulations and Markov state models to characterize the kinetics of RNA…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 Giovanni Pinamonti , Fabian Paul , Frank Noé , Alex Rodriguez , Giovanni Bussi

Machine learned interaction potentials (MLIPs) have become a critical component of large-scale, high-quality simulations for a range of chemical and biochemical systems. Yet, despite their in-distribution accuracy, molecular dynamics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Eric C. -Y. Yuan , Teresa Head-Gordon

Machine-learned force fields have generated significant interest in recent years as a tool for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, with the aim of developing accurate and efficient models that can replace classical interatomic potentials.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Shaswat Mohanty , Sanghyuk Yoo , Keonwook Kang , Wei Cai

Modern machine learning force fields (ML-FF) are able to yield energy and force predictions at the accuracy of high-level $ab~initio$ methods, but at a much lower computational cost. On the other hand, classical molecular mechanics force…

The development of reliable and extensible molecular mechanics (MM) force fields -- fast, empirical models characterizing the potential energy surface of molecular systems -- is indispensable for biomolecular simulation and computer-aided…

Microscopic stress fields are widely used in molecular simulations to understand mechanical behavior. Recently, decomposition methods of multibody forces to central force pairs between the interacting particles have been proposed. Here, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-23 Koh M. Nakagawa , Hiroshi Noguchi

RNA secondary structures of increasing complexity are probed combining single molecule stretching experiments and stochastic unfolding/refolding simulations. We find that force-induced unfolding pathways cannot usually be interpretated by…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Harlepp , T. Marchal , J. Robert , J-F. Leger , A. Xayaphoummine , H. Isambert , D. Chatenay

Molecular dynamics is a powerful simulation tool to explore material properties. Most of the realistic material systems are too large to be simulated with first-principles molecular dynamics. Classical molecular dynamics has lower…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-11 Zun Wang , Chong Wang , Sibo Zhao , Shiqiao Du , Yong Xu , Bing-Lin Gu , Wenhui Duan

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

Force fields for molecular dynamics are usually developed manually, limiting their transferability and making systematic exploration of functional forms challenging. We developed a graph neural network that assigns all force field…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-18 Alexandre Blanco-González , Thea K Schulze , Evianne Rovers , Joe G Greener

Empirical force fields employed in molecular dynamics simulations of complex systems can be optimised to reproduce experimentally determined structural and thermodynamic properties. In contrast, experimental knowledge about the rates of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-12 P. G. Bolhuis , Z. F. Brotzakis , B. G. Keller

Although RNAs play many cellular functions little is known about the dynamics and thermodynamics of these molecules. In principle, all-atom molecular dynamics simulations can investigate these issues, but with current computer facilities,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-01-22 Tristan Cragnolini , Philippe Derreumaux , Samuela Pasquali

The properties of $\mathrm{MoS_2}$ can be tuned or optimized through doping. In particular, Ni doping has been shown to improve the performance of $\mathrm{MoS_2}$ for various applications, including catalysis and tribology. To enable…

Electronic structure methods offer in principle accurate predictions of molecular properties, however, their applicability is limited by computational costs. Empirical methods are cheaper, but come with inherent approximations and are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-16 Moritz Thürlemann , Sereina Riniker