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Protein-ligand scoring is a central component of structure-based drug design, underpinning molecular docking, virtual screening, and pose optimization. Conventional physics-based energy functions are often computationally expensive,…

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Efficient and interpretable spatial analysis is crucial in many fields such as geology, sports, and climate science. Tensor latent factor models can describe higher-order correlations for spatial data. However, they are computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Jung Yeon Park , Kenneth Theo Carr , Stephan Zheng , Yisong Yue , Rose Yu

A free energy landscape estimation-method based on Bayesian inference is presented and used for comparing the efficiency of thermally enhanced sampling methods with respect to regular molecular dynamics, where the simulations are carried…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-04 Annie M. Westerlund , Tyler J. Harpole , Christian Blau , Lucie Delemotte

Enhanced sampling and free energy calculation algorithms of the Thermodynamic Integration family (such as the Adaptive Biasing Force method, ABF) are not based on the direct computation of a free energy surface, but rather of its gradient.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Jérôme Hénin

The Fokker-Planck (FP) equation is a linear partial differential equation which governs the temporal and spatial evolution of the probability density function (PDF) associated with the response of stochastic dynamical systems. An exact…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Hussam Alhussein , Mohammed Khasawneh , Mohammed F. Daqaq

The equilibrium free energy landscape of an off-lattice model protein as a function of an internal (reaction) coordinate is reconstructed from out-of-equilibrium mechanical unfolding manipulations. This task is accomplished via two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-17 Alberto Imparato , Stefano Luccioli , Alessandro Torcini

Many enhanced sampling techniques rely on the identification of a number of collective variables that describe all the slow modes of the system. By constructing a bias potential in this reduced space one is then able to sample efficiently…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Michele Invernizzi , Michele Parrinello

We propose a fast method with statistical guarantees for learning an exponential family density model where the natural parameter is in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space, and may be infinite-dimensional. The model is learned by fitting the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-15 Danica J. Sutherland , Heiko Strathmann , Michael Arbel , Arthur Gretton

The concept of a protein diffusing in its free energy folding landscape has been fruitful for both theory and experiment. Yet the choice of the reaction coordinate (RC) introduces an undesirable degree of arbitrariness into the problem. We…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Michael Hinczewski , Yann von Hansen , Joachim Dzubiella , Roland R. Netz

Free energies as a function of a selected set of collective variables are commonly computed in molecular simulation and of significant value in understanding and engineering molecular behavior. These free energy surfaces are most commonly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-15 Michael R. Shirts , Andrew L. Ferguson

There has been a veritable explosion of methods and software to perform machine-learned regression on datasets of electronic energies and forces to develop high-dimensional machine learned potential energy surfaces (ML-PESs). A major, but…

Automatic classification of pests and plants (both healthy and diseased) is of paramount importance in agriculture to improve yield. Conventional deep learning models based on convolutional neural networks require thousands of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Sai Vidyaranya Nuthalapati , Anirudh Tunga

Free energy landscapes provide insights into conformational ensembles of biomolecules. In order to analyze these landscapes and elucidate mechanisms underlying conformational changes, there is a need to extract metastable states with…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-10-31 Annie M. Westerlund , Lucie Delemotte

The development of generalizable Novel View Synthesis (NVS) models is critically limited by the scarcity of large-scale training data featuring diverse and precise camera trajectories. While real-world captures are photorealistic, they are…

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The implicit solvent approach offers a computationally efficient framework to model solvation effects in molecular simulations. However, its accuracy often falls short compared to explicit solvent models, limiting its use in precise…

A vast array of phenomena, ranging from chemical reactions to phase transformations, are analysed in terms of a free energy surface defined with respect to a single or multiple order parameters. Enhanced sampling methods are typically used,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-26 Yagyik Goswami , Srikanth Sastry

We present an efficient approach for generating highly accurate molecular potential energy surfaces (PESs) using self-correcting, kernel ridge regression (KRR) based machine learning (ML). We introduce structure-based sampling to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Pavlo O. Dral , Alec Owens , Sergei N. Yurchenko , Walter Thiel

We present a new strategy to approximate the global solution of the Fokker-Planck equation efficiently in higher dimensions and show its convergence. The main ingredients are the Euler scheme to solve the associated stochastic differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Max Jensen , Fabian Merle , Andreas Prohl

Estimating the free energy in molecular simulation requires, implicitly or explicitly, counting how many times the system is observed in a finite region. If the simulation is biased by an external potential, the weight of the configurations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Matteo Carli , Alessandro Laio