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Simulations are vital for understanding and predicting the evolution of complex molecular systems. However, despite advances in algorithms and special purpose hardware, accessing the timescales necessary to capture the structural evolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 Pantelis R. Vlachas , Julija Zavadlav , Matej Praprotnik , Petros Koumoutsakos

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are fundamental computational tools for the study of proteins and their free energy landscapes. However, sampling protein conformational changes through MD simulations is challenging due to the relatively…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-20 Diego E. Kleiman , Hassan Nadeem , Diwakar Shukla

It is a challenge to obtain an accurate model of the state-to-state dynamics of a complex biological system from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In recent years, Markov State Models have gained immense popularity for computing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Animesh Agarwal , Nicolas W. Hengartner , S. Gnanakaran , Arthur F. Voter

Simulating large proteins using traditional molecular dynamics (MD) is computationally demanding. To address this challenge, we propose a novel tree-structured coarse-grained model that efficiently captures protein dynamics. By leveraging a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Jinzhen Zhu

We introduce Masked Trajectory Models (MTM) as a generic abstraction for sequential decision making. MTM takes a trajectory, such as a state-action sequence, and aims to reconstruct the trajectory conditioned on random subsets of the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Philipp Wu , Arjun Majumdar , Kevin Stone , Yixin Lin , Igor Mordatch , Pieter Abbeel , Aravind Rajeswaran

We present a simple and robust technique to extract kinetic rate models and thermodynamic quantities from single molecule time traces. SMACKS (Single Molecule Analysis of Complex Kinetic Sequences) is a maximum likelihood approach that…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-10 Sonja Schmid , Markus Götz , Thorsten Hugel

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

Molecular dynamics simulations yield large amounts of trajectory data. For their durable storage and accessibility an efficient compression algorithm is paramount. State of the art domain-specific algorithms combine quantization, Huffman…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Jan Huwald , Stephan Richter , Peter Dittrich

A tutorial introduction to the technique of Molecular Dynamics (MD) is given, and some characteristic examples of applications are described. The purpose and scope of these simulations and the relation to other simulation methods is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Kurt Binder , Jurgen Horbach , Walter Kob , Wolfgang Paul , Fathollah Varnik

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations provide considerable benefits for the investigation and experimentation of systems at atomic level. Their usage is widespread into several research fields, but their system size and timescale are also…

Massively parallel computer architectures create new opportunities for the performance of long-timescale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Here, we introduce the path-accelerated molecular dynamics (PAMD) method that takes advantage of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-11 Jorge L. Rosa-Raíces , Bin Zhang , Thomas F. Miller

Spontaneous structural rearrangements play a central role in the organization and function of complex biomolecular systems. In principle, physics-based computer simulations like Molecular Dynamics (MD) enable us to investigate these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Danial Ghamari , Philipp Hauke , Roberto Covino , Pietro Faccioli

Finding the correct encoding for a generic dynamical system's trajectory is a complicated task: the symbolic sequence needs to preserve the invariant properties from the system's trajectory. In theory, the solution to this problem is found…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-04-18 Nicolás Rubido , Celso Grebogi , Murilo S. Baptista

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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Juan Viguera Diez , Mathias Schreiner , Simon Olsson

Graph dynamical systems (GDS) model dynamic processes on a (static) graph. Stochastic GDS has been used for network-based epidemics models such as the contact process and the reversible contact process. In this paper, we consider stochastic…

Applications · Statistics 2023-03-16 Seyyed A. Fatemi , June Zhang

Molecular dynamics simulations have the potential to provide atomic-level detail and insight to important questions in chemical physics that cannot be observed in typical experiments. However, simply generating a long trajectory is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Christian R. Schwantes , Robert T. McGibbon , Vijay S. Pande

This study employed an artificial intelligence-enhanced molecular simulation framework to enable efficient Path Integral Molecular Dynamics (PIMD) simulations. Owing to its modular architecture and high-throughput capabilities, the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Cheng Fan , Maodong Li , Sihao Yuan , Zhaoxin Xie , Dechin Chen , Yi Isaac Yang , Yi Qin Gao

The scarcity of experimental protein-ligand complexes poses a significant challenge for training robust deep learning models for molecular docking. Given the prohibitive cost and time constraints associated with experimental structure…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-17 Sofiene Khiari , Matthew R. Masters , Amr H. Mahmoud , Markus A. Lill

Non-equilibrium Markov State Modeling (MSM) has recently been proposed [Phys. Rev. E 94, 053001 (2016)] as a possible route to construct a physical theory of sliding friction from a long steady state atomistic simulation: the approach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-17 M. Teruzzi , F. Pellegrini , A. Laio , E. Tosatti

Simulating the molecular dynamics (MD) using classical or semi-classical trajectories provides important details for the understanding of many chemical reactions, protein folding, drug design, and solvation effects. MD simulations using…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-16 Siyang Yang