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Molecular dynamics (MD) has become a powerful tool for studying biophysical systems, due to increasing computational power and availability of software. Although MD has made many contributions to better understanding these complex…

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Atomistic modeling of thin-film processes provides an avenue not only for discovering key chemical mechanisms of the processes but also to extract quantitative metrics on the events and reactions taking place at the gas-surface interface.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-05 S. Kondati Natarajan , J. Schneider , N. Pandey , J. Wellendorff , S. Smidstrup

Molecular dynamics is the primary computational method by which modern structural biology explores macromolecule structure and function. Boltzmann generators have been proposed as an alternative to molecular dynamics, by replacing the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Congzhou M. Sha , Jian Wang , Nikolay V. Dokholyan

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are essential tools in computational chemistry and drug discovery, offering crucial insights into dynamic molecular behavior. However, their utility is significantly limited by substantial computational…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Bin Feng , Jiying Zhang , Xinni Zhang , Zijing Liu , Yu Li

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

Machine learning potentials have emerged as a means to enhance the accuracy of biomolecular simulations. However, their application is constrained by the significant computational cost arising from the vast number of parameters compared to…

Machine learning force fields (MLFF) have been proposed to accelerate molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, which finds widespread applications in chemistry and biomedical research. Even for the most data-efficient MLFFs, reaching chemical…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-07 Alexander Bukharin , Tianyi Liu , Shengjie Wang , Simiao Zuo , Weihao Gao , Wen Yan , Tuo Zhao

Developing accurate and efficient coarse-grained representations of proteins is crucial for understanding their folding, function, and interactions over extended timescales. Our methodology involves simulating proteins with molecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-11 Carles Navarro , Maciej Majewski , Gianni de Fabritiis

Molecular Dynamics (MD) is crucial in various fields such as materials science, chemistry, and pharmacology to name a few. Conventional MD software struggles with the balance between time cost and prediction accuracy, which restricts its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Ziyang Yu , Wenbing Huang , Yang Liu

Despite its widespread use in materials science, conventional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are severely constrained by timescale limitations. To address this shortcoming, we propose an empirical formulation of accelerated MD method,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-10 Liang Wan , Qingsong Mei , Haowen Liu , Huafeng Zhang , Jun-Ping Du , Shigenobu Ogata , Wen Tong Geng

The foundation model (FM) paradigm is transforming Machine Learning Force Fields (MLFFs), leveraging general-purpose representations and scalable training to perform a variety of computational chemistry tasks. Although MLFF FMs have begun…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Ishan Amin , Sanjeev Raja , Aditi Krishnapriyan

Machine learning force fields (MLFFs) have revolutionized molecular simulations by providing quantum mechanical accuracy at the speed of molecular mechanical computations. However, a fundamental reliance of these models on fixed-cutoff…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Chu Wang , Lin Huang , Xinran Wei , Tao Qin , Arthur Jiang , Lixue Cheng , Jia Zhang

The MolMod database is presented, which is openly accessible at http://molmod.boltzmann-zuse.de/ and contains presently intermolecular force fields for over 150 pure fluids. It was developed and is maintained by the Boltzmann-Zuse Society…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 Simon Stephan , Martin Thomas Horsch , Jadran Vrabec , Hans Hasse

In drug discovery, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation for protein-ligand binding provides a powerful tool for predicting binding affinities, estimating transport properties, and exploring pocket sites. There has been a long history of…

Accelerated molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are implemented to model the sliding process of AFM experiments at speeds close to those found in experiment. In this study the hyperdynamics method, originally devised to extend MD time…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Woo Kyun Kim , Michael L. Falk

For nearly the past 30 years, Centroid Molecular Dynamics (CMD) has proven to be a viable classical-like phase space formulation for the calculation of quantum dynamical properties. However, calculation of the centroid effective force…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Timothy D. Loose , Patrick G. Sahrmann , Gregory A. Voth

Global machine learning force fields (MLFFs), that have the capacity to capture collective many-atom interactions in molecular systems, currently only scale up to a few dozen atoms due a considerable growth of the model complexity with…

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 method for enhanced sampling of molecular dynamics simulations using stochastic resetting. Various phenomena, ranging from crystal nucleation to protein folding, occur on timescales that are unreachable in standard simulations.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Ofir Blumer , Shlomi Reuveni , Barak Hirshberg

Molecular simulations of the forced unfolding and refolding of biomolecules or molecular complexes allow to gain important kinetic, structural and thermodynamic information about the folding process and the underlying energy landscape. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-26 Marco Oestereich , Jürgen Gauss , Gregor Diezemann