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Coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can simulate large molecular complexes over extended timescales by reducing degrees of freedom. A critical step in CG modeling is the selection of the CG mapping algorithm, which…

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A generalized understanding of protein dynamics is an unsolved scientific problem, the solution of which is critical to the interpretation of the structure-function relationships that govern essential biological processes. Here, we approach…

Coarse-graining (CG) of molecular simulations simplifies the particle representation by grouping selected atoms into pseudo-beads and drastically accelerates simulation. However, such CG procedure induces information losses, which makes…

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Statistical (machine learning) tools for equation discovery require large amounts of data that are typically computer generated rather than experimentally observed. Multiscale modeling and stochastic simulations are two areas where learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-17 Joseph Bakarji , Daniel M. Tartakovsky

Coarse-grained molecular dynamics often sacrifices accuracy and transferability for computational efficiency, but the use of machine learned potentials is helping coarse-grained models attain performance on par with atomistic molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Abigail Park , Shriram Chennakesavalu , Grant M. Rotskoff

Coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics enables the study of biological processes at temporal and spatial scales that would be intractable at an atomistic resolution. However, accurately learning a CG force field remains a challenge. In this…

We present a data-driven machine-learning approach for modeling space-time socioeconomic dynamics. Through coarse-graining fine-scale observations, our modeling framework simplifies these complex systems to a set of tractable mechanistic…

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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…

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The distances over which biological molecules and their complexes can function range from a few nanometres, in the case of folded structures, to millimetres, for example during chromosome organization. Describing phenomena that cover such…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-28 Changbong Hyeon , D. Thirumalai

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…

Differentiable physics modeling combines physics models with gradient-based learning to provide model explicability and data efficiency. It has been used to learn dynamics, solve inverse problems and facilitate design, and is at its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Deshan Gong , Zhanxing Zhu , Andrew J. Bulpitt , He Wang

We review some recent coarse-graining and multi-scale methods, but also put forward some new ideas for addressing such issues. We find that, if one is guided by nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, it is possible to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-06 Patrick Ilg , Vlasis Mavrantzas , Hans Christian Öttinger

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

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Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-06 Yajun Ding , Jeetain Mittal

Coarse graining techniques play an essential role in accelerating molecular simulations of systems with large length and time scales. Theoretically grounded bottom-up models are appealing due to their thermodynamic consistency with the…

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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…

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The large time and length scales and, not least, the vast number of particles involved in industrial-scale simulations inflate the computational costs of the Discrete Element Method (DEM) excessively. Coarse grain models can help to lower…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Daniel Queteschiner , Thomas Lichtenegger , Simon Schneiderbauer , Stefan Pirker

Coarse-grained (CG) molecular simulations have become a standard tool to study molecular processes on time- and length-scales inaccessible to all-atom simulations. Parameterizing CG force fields to match all-atom simulations has mainly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Jonas Köhler , Yaoyi Chen , Andreas Krämer , Cecilia Clementi , Frank Noé

Coarse-grained models have played an important role in the study of the behavior of DNA at length scales beyond a few hundred base pairs. Traditionally, these models have relied on structurally featureless and sequence-independent…

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