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Coarse-graining (CG) accelerates molecular simulations of protein dynamics by simulating sets of atoms as singular beads. Backmapping is the opposite operation of bringing lost atomistic details back from the CG representation. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Soojung Yang , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

One essential goal of constructing coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) models is to accurately predict non-equilibrium processes beyond the atomistic scale. While a CG model can be constructed by projecting the full dynamics onto a set…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Liyao Lyu , Huan Lei

Coarse-grained models are a core computational tool in theoretical chemistry and biophysics. A judicious choice of a coarse-grained model can yield physical insight by isolating the essential degrees of freedom that dictate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-12 Shriram Chennakesavalu , David J. Toomer , 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…

Bottom-up coarse-grained (CG) modeling expands the spatial and temporal scales of molecular simulation by seeking a reduced, thermodynamically consistent representation of an atomistic model. Developments in CG theory have largely focused…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Patrick G. Sahrmann , Gregory A. Voth

Machine-learned coarse-grained (CG) models have the potential for simulating large molecular complexes beyond what is possible with atomistic molecular dynamics. However, training accurate CG models remains a challenge. A widely used…

Coarse-graining has become an area of tremendous importance within many different research fields. For molecular simulation, coarse-graining bears the promise of finding simplified models such that long-time simulations of large-scale…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Feliks Nüske , Lorenzo Boninsegna , Cecilia Clementi

The thermodynamic entropy of coarse-grained (CG) models stands as one of the most important properties for quantifying the missing information during the CG process and for establishing transferable (or extendible) CG interactions. However,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Jaehyeok Jin , David R. Reichman

Molecular dynamics simulations provide theoretical insight into the microscopic behavior of materials in condensed phase and, as a predictive tool, enable computational design of new compounds. However, because of the large temporal and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Wujie Wang , Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli

This work presents a novel framework governing the development of an efficient, accurate, and transferable coarse-grained (CG) model of a polyether material. The proposed framework combines the two fundamentally different classical…

Simulating large-scale protein dynamics using traditional all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) remains computationally prohibitive. We present a unified, universal framework for coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CG-MD) that achieves…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Jinzhen Zhu

Coarse-grained (CG) models can provide computationally efficient and conceptually simple characterizations of soft matter systems. While generic models probe the underlying physics governing an entire family of free-energy landscapes,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-15 Joseph F. Rudzinski

Coarse graining enables the investigation of molecular dynamics for larger systems and at longer timescales than is possible at atomic resolution. However, a coarse graining model must be formulated such that the conclusions we draw from it…

We present a differentiable formalism for learning free energies that is capable of capturing arbitrarily complex model dependencies on coarse-grained coordinates and finite-temperature response to variation of general system parameters.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Blake R. Duschatko , Xiang Fu , Cameron Owen , Yu Xie , Albert Musaelian , Tommi Jaakkola , Boris Kozinsky

We propose a data-driven, coarse-graining formulation in the context of equilibrium statistical mechanics. In contrast to existing techniques which are based on a fine-to-coarse map, we adopt the opposite strategy by prescribing a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-01 Markus Schöberl , Nicholas Zabaras , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

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 molecular dynamics (CGMD) is a technique developed as a concurrent multiscale model that couples conventional molecular dynamics (MD) to a more coarse-grained description of the periphery. The coarse-grained regions are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert E. Rudd , Jeremy Q. Broughton

Capturing the correct dynamics at the Coarse-Grained (CG) scale remains a central challenge in the advancement of systematic CG models for soft matter simulations. The Generalized Langevin Equation (GLE), rooted in the Mori-Zwanzig…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-14 Jinu Jeong , Ishan Nadkarni , Narayana. R. Aluru

Coarse-grained (CG) modeling simplifies molecular systems by mapping groups of atoms into representative units. However, traditional CG approaches rely on fixed mapping rules, which limit their ability to handle diverse chemical systems and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Zhixuan Zhong , Linbo Ma , Jian Jiang

We present a new framework for coarse-graining molecular dynamics models for crystalline solids. The reduction method is based on a Galerkin projection to a subspace, whose dimension is much smaller than that of the full atomistic model.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-17 Xiantao Li