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Molecular simulations are playing an ever increasing role, finding applications in fields as varied as physics, chemistry, biology and material science. However, many phenomena of interest take place on time scales that are out of reach of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Michele Invernizzi

Many processes in chemistry and physics take place on timescales that cannot be explored using standard molecular dynamics simulations. This renders the use of enhanced sampling mandatory. Here we introduce an enhanced sampling method that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-06-12 Jayashrita Debnath , Michele Parrinello

Exascale computing holds great opportunities for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. However, to take full advantage of the new possibilities, we must learn how to focus computational power on the discovery of complex molecular mechanisms,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Hendrik Jung , Roberto Covino , Gerhard Hummer

Scientists often use observational time series data to study complex natural processes, but regression analyses often assume simplistic dynamics. Recent advances in deep learning have yielded startling improvements to the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Cory Shain , William Schuler

Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a pervasive tool in science, engineering, and beyond. Its success has also led to several synergies with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, which we use to identify and characterize the major…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-09 Christopher Kolloff , Simon Olsson

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation is widely used to analyze the properties of molecules and materials. Most practical applications, such as comparison with experimental measurements, designing drug molecules, or optimizing materials, rely…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Frank Noé

Sampling rare events in metastable dynamical systems is often a computationally expensive task and one needs to resort to enhanced sampling methods such as importance sampling. Since we can formulate the problem of finding optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Enric Ribera Borrell , Jannes Quer , Lorenz Richter , Christof Schütte

Molecular dynamics simulations have emerged as a fundamental instrument for studying biomolecules. At the same time, it is desirable to perform simulations of a collection of particles under various conditions in which the molecules can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jingbang Chen , Yian Wang , Xingwei Qu , Shuangjia Zheng , Yaodong Yang , Hao Dong , Jie Fu

A popular way to accelerate the sampling of rare events in molecular dynamics simulations is to introduce a potential that increases the fluctuations of selected collective variables. For this strategy to be successful, it is critical to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Luigi Bonati

Normal molecular dynamics simulations are usually unable to simulate chemical reactions due to the low probability of forming the transition state. Therefore, enhanced sampling methods are implemented to accelerate the occurrence of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Yi Sun , Xu Han , Lijiang Yang

Enzyme mining is rapidly evolving as a data-driven strategy to identify biocatalysts with tailored functions from the vast landscape of uncharacterized proteins. The integration of machine learning into these workflows enables…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-11 Yanzi Zhang , Felix Moorhoff , Sizhe Qiu , Wenjuan Dong , David Medina-Ortiz , Jing Zhao , Mehdi D. Davari

There are many problems in biochemistry that are difficult to study experimentally. Simulation methods are appealing due to direct availability of atomic coordinates as a function of time. However, direct molecular simulations are…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-24 Malin Luking , David van der Spoel , Johan Elf , Gareth A. Tribello

Data subsampling has become widely recognized as a tool to overcome computational and economic bottlenecks in analyzing massive datasets. We contribute to the development of adaptive design for estimation of finite population…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-08 Henrik Imberg , Xiaomi Yang , Carol Flannagan , Jonas Bärgman

Recent times are witnessing rapid development in machine learning algorithm systems, especially in reinforcement learning, natural language processing, computer and robot vision, image processing, speech, and emotional processing and…

Recent years have witnessed the fast development of machine learning potentials (MLPs) and their widespread applications in chemistry, physics, and material science. By fitting discrete ab initio data faithfully to continuous and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Junfan Xia , Yaolong Zhang , Bin Jiang

Machine learning potentials offer a revolutionary, unifying framework for molecular simulations across scales, from quantum chemistry to coarse-grained models. Here, I explore their potential to dramatically improve accuracy and scalability…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Gianni De Fabritiis

The rare-event sampling problem has long been the central limiting factor in molecular dynamics (MD), especially in biomolecular simulation. Recently, diffusion models such as BioEmu have emerged as powerful equilibrium samplers that…

In the field of computational physics and material science, the efficient sampling of rare events occurring at atomic scale is crucial. It aids in understanding mechanisms behind a wide range of important phenomena, including protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Xinru Hua , Rasool Ahmad , Jose Blanchet , Wei Cai

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…

Photo-induced processes are fundamental in nature, but accurate simulations are seriously limited by the cost of the underlying quantum chemical calculations, hampering their application for long time scales. Here we introduce a method…