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Coarse-graining is a molecular modeling technique in which an atomistic system is represented in a simplified fashion that retains the most significant system features that contribute to a target output, while removing the degrees of…

The present work concerns the transferability of coarse-grained (CG) modeling in reproducing the dynamic properties of the reference atomistic systems across a range of parameters. In particular, we focus on implicit-solvent CG modeling of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Zhan Ma , Shu Wang , Minhee Kim , Kaibo Liu , Chun-Long Chen , Wenxiao Pan

Multiscale molecular modeling is widely applied in scientific research of molecular properties over large time and length scales. Two specific challenges are commonly present in multiscale modeling, provided that information between the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Jun Zhang , Xiaohan Lin , Weinan E , Yi Qin Gao

Coarse-grained (CG) models play a crucial role in the study of protein structures, protein thermodynamic properties, and protein conformation dynamics. Due to the information loss in the coarse-graining process, backmapping from CG to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-30 Yikai Liu , Ming Chen , Guang Lin

This review is a tutorial for scientists interested in the problem of protein structure prediction, particularly those interested in using coarse-grained molecular dynamics models that are optimized using lessons learned from the energy…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-01-06 N. P. Schafer , B. L. Kim , W. Zheng , P. G. Wolynes

Coarse-graining (CG) enables molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of larger systems and longer timescales that are otherwise infeasible with atomistic models. Machine learning potentials (MLPs), with their capacity to capture many-body…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Weilong Chen , Franz Görlich , Paul Fuchs , Julija Zavadlav

Coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics enables simulations of atomic systems such as biomolecules at timescales inaccessible to all-atom (AA) methods, but existing CG neural potentials trained via force matching capture only the gradient of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Sanya Murdeshwar , Sanjit Shashi , Kevin Bachelor , William Noid , Ashwin Lokapally , Razvan Marinescu

Machine-learned (ML) coarse-grained (CG) models are a promising tool for significantly enhancing the efficiency of molecular simulations by systematically removing degrees of freedom while retaining fidelity to the underlying fine-grained…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Patrick G. Sahrmann , Benjamin T. Nebgen , Kipton Barros , Brenden W. Hamilton

Bottom-up coarse-grained molecular dynamics models are parameterized using complex effective Hamiltonians. These models are typically optimized to approximate high dimensional data from atomistic simulations. In contrast, human validation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Aleksander Evren Paetzold Durumeric , Gregory A. Voth

The development of coarse-grained (CG) molecular models typically requires a time-consuming iterative tuning of parameters in order to have the approximated CG models behaving correctly and consistently with, e.g., available…

Due to the wide range of timescales that are present in macromolecular systems, hierarchical multiscale strategies are necessary for their computational study. Coarse-graining (CG) allows to establish a link between different system…

Protein folding and design are major biophysical problems, the solution of which would lead to important applications especially in medicine. Here a novel protein model capable of simultaneously provide quantitative protein design and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ivan Coluzza

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

Coarse-grained (CG) models provide an effective route to reducing the complexity of molecular simulations (MD), but conventional approaches depend heavily on long all-atom MD trajectories to adequately sample configurational space. This…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Maximilian Stupp , P. S. Koutsourelakis

Many aspects of the study of protein folding and dynamics have been affected by the recent advances in machine learning. Methods for the prediction of protein structures from their sequences are now heavily based on machine learning tools.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Frank Noé , Gianni De Fabritiis , Cecilia Clementi

We describe a combination of all-atom simulations with CABS, a well-established coarse-grained protein modeling tool, into a single multiscale protocol. The simulation method has been tested on the C-terminal beta hairpin of protein G, a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 Jacek Wabik , Sebastian Kmiecik , Dominik Gront , Maksim Kouza , Andrzej Kolinski

The data-based discovery of effective, coarse-grained (CG) models of high-dimensional dynamical systems presents a unique challenge in computational physics and particularly in the context of multiscale problems. The present paper offers a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Sebastian Kaltenbach , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

Significant progress in computer hardware and software have enabled molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to model complex biological phenomena such as protein folding. However, enabling MD simulations to access biologically relevant…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-02 Heng Ma , Debsindhu Bhowmik , Hyungro Lee , Matteo Turilli , Michael T. Young , Shantenu Jha , Arvind Ramanathan

We present a novel learning framework that consistently embeds underlying physics while bypassing a significant drawback of most modern, data-driven coarse-grained approaches in the context of molecular dynamics (MD), i.e., the availability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Markus Schöberl , Nicholas Zabaras , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

Simulations of biological macromolecules play an important role in understanding the physical basis of a number of complex processes such as protein folding. Even with increasing computational power and evolution of specialized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Hyungro Lee , Heng Ma , Matteo Turilli , Debsindhu Bhowmik , Shantenu Jha , Arvind Ramanathan