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Graph neural network (GNN) architectures have emerged as promising force field models, exhibiting high accuracy in predicting complex energies and forces based on atomic identities and Cartesian coordinates. To expand the applicability of…

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Machine-learning force fields enable an accurate and universal description of the potential energy surface of molecules and materials on the basis of a training set of ab initio data. However, large-scale applications of these methods rest…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Valerio Briganti , Alessandro Lunghi

Molecular modeling is an important topic in drug discovery. Decades of research have led to the development of high quality scalable molecular force fields. In this paper, we show that neural networks can be used to train a universal…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-20 Ke Liu , Zekun Ni , Zhenyu Zhou , Suocheng Tan , Xun Zou , Haoming Xing , Xiangyan Sun , Qi Han , Junqiu Wu , Jie Fan

The prediction of physicochemical properties from molecular structures is a crucial task for artificial intelligence aided molecular design. A growing number of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been proposed to address this challenge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Shuo Zhang , Yang Liu , Lei Xie

Classical empirical force fields have dominated biomolecular simulation for over 50 years. Although widely used in drug discovery, crystal structure prediction, and biomolecular dynamics, they generally lack the accuracy and transferability…

Protein dynamics play a crucial role in many biological processes and drug interactions. However, measuring, and simulating protein dynamics is challenging and time-consuming. While machine learning holds promise in deciphering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Sina Sarparast , Aldo Zaimi , Maximilian Ebert , Michael-Rock Goldsmith

Deep generative models for graphs have exhibited promising performance in ever-increasing domains such as design of molecules (i.e, graph of atoms) and structure prediction of proteins (i.e., graph of amino acids). Existing work typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Wenbin Zhang , Liming Zhang , Dieter Pfoser , Liang Zhao

Recently, machine learning (ML) has been used to address the computational cost that has been limiting ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD). Here, we present GNNFF, a graph neural network framework to directly predict atomic forces from…

Many aspects of the study of protein folding and dynamics have been affected by the recent advances in machine learning. Methods for the prediction of protein structures from their sequences are now heavily based on machine learning tools.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Frank Noé , Gianni De Fabritiis , Cecilia Clementi

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for learning protein structures by capturing spatial relationships at the residue level. However, existing GNN-based methods often face challenges in learning multiscale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shih-Hsin Wang , Yuhao Huang , Taos Transue , Justin Baker , Jonathan Forstater , Thomas Strohmer , Bao Wang

We propose a mask pretraining method for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to improve their performance on fitting potential energy surfaces, particularly in water systems. GNNs are pretrained by recovering spatial information related to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zehua Zhang , Zijie Li , Amir Barati Farimani

Machine learning approaches have become popular for molecular modeling tasks, including molecular force fields and properties prediction. Traditional supervised learning methods suffer from scarcity of labeled data for particular tasks,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-29 Xiang Gao , Weihao Gao , Wenzhi Xiao , Zhirui Wang , Chong Wang , Liang Xiang

Developing physics-based models for molecular simulation requires fitting many unknown parameters to diverse experimental datasets. Traditionally, this process is piecemeal and difficult to reproduce, leading to a fragmented landscape of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Ryan K. Krueger , Megan C. Engel , Ryan Hausen , Michael P. Brenner

Coarse graining (CG) enables the investigation of molecular properties for larger systems and at longer timescales than the ones attainable at the atomistic resolution. Machine learning techniques have been recently proposed to learn CG…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Eleonora Ricci , George Giannakopoulos , Vangelis Karkaletsis , Doros N. Theodorou , Niki Vergadou

Gaussian process (GP) emulator has been used as a surrogate model for predicting force field and molecular potential, to overcome the computational bottleneck of molecular dynamics simulation. Integrating both atomic force and energy in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Hao Li , Musen Zhou , Jessalyn Sebastian , Jianzhong Wu , Mengyang Gu

Neural network interatomic potentials (NNPs) have recently proven to be powerful tools to accurately model complex molecular systems while bypassing the high numerical cost of ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations. In recent years,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Thomas Plé , Olivier Adjoua , Louis Lagardère , Jean-Philip Piquemal

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations allow atomistic insights into chemical and biological processes. Accurate MD simulations require computationally demanding quantum-mechanical calculations, being practically limited to short timescales…

Machine learning algorithms have recently emerged as a tool to generate force fields which display accuracies approaching the ones of the ab-initio calculations they are trained on, but are much faster to compute. The enhanced computational…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Claudio Zeni , Kevin Rossi , Aldo Glielmo , Francesca Baletto

The arc of drug discovery entails a multiparameter optimization problem spanning vast length scales. They key parameters range from solubility (angstroms) to protein-ligand binding (nanometers) to in vivo toxicity (meters). Through feature…

A new approach for efficiently exploring the configuration space and computing the free energy of large atomic and molecular systems is proposed, motivated by an analogy with reinforcement learning. There are two major components in this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Linfeng Zhang , Han Wang , Weinan E