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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

A key overall goal of biomolecular simulations is the characterization of "mechanism" -- the pathways through configuration space of processes such as conformational transitions and binding. Some amount of heterogeneity is intrinsic to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-10-25 Ernesto Suárez , Daniel M. Zuckerman

Atomistic simulations with methods such as molecular dynamics are extremely powerful tools to understand nanoscale dynamical behavior. The resulting trajectories, by the virtue of being embedded in a high-dimensional configuration space,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-27 Animesh Agarwal , Sandrasegaram Gnanakaran , Nicholas Hengartner , Arthur F. Voter , Danny Perez

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are fundamental computational tools for the study of proteins and their free energy landscapes. However, sampling protein conformational changes through MD simulations is challenging due to the relatively…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-20 Diego E. Kleiman , Hassan Nadeem , Diwakar Shukla

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations employing classical force fields constitute the cornerstone of contemporary atomistic modeling in chemistry, biology, and materials science. However, the predictive power of these simulations is only as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Stefan Chmiela , Huziel E. Sauceda , Klaus-Robert Müller , Alexandre Tkatchenko

We present a new method that enables the identification and analysis of both transition and metastable conformational states from atomistic or coarse-grained molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories. Our algorithm is presented and studied by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Linda Martini , Adam Kells , Gerhard Hummer , Nicolae-Viorel Buchete , Edina Rosta

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is essential for various scientific domains but computationally expensive. Learning-based force fields have made significant progress in accelerating ab-initio MD simulation but are not fast enough for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xiang Fu , Tian Xie , Nathan J. Rebello , Bradley D. Olsen , Tommi Jaakkola

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are useful in obtaining thermodynamic and kinetic properties of bio-molecules but are limited by the timescale barrier, i.e., we may be unable to efficiently obtain properties because we need to run…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Surl-Hee Ahn , Jay W. Grate , Eric F. Darve

The dynamic nature of proteins, influenced by ligand interactions, is essential for comprehending protein function and progressing drug discovery. Traditional structure-based drug design (SBDD) approaches typically target binding sites with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-07 Xiangxin Zhou , Yi Xiao , Haowei Lin , Xinheng He , Jiaqi Guan , Yang Wang , Qiang Liu , Feng Zhou , Liang Wang , Jianzhu Ma

The lifetime of protein domains and ligand-receptor complexes under force is crucial for mechanosensitive functions, while many aspects of how force affects the lifetime still remain poorly understood. Here, we report a new analytical…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Shiwen Guo , Qingnan Tang , Mingxi Yao , Shimin Le , Hu Chen , Jie Yan

Molecular transitions -- such as protein folding, allostery, and membrane transport -- are central to biology yet remain notoriously difficult to simulate. Their intrinsic rarity pushes them beyond reach of standard molecular dynamics,…

Diffusion models (DMs) represent state-of-the-art generative models for continuous inputs. DMs work by constructing a Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE) in the input space (ie, position space), and using a neural network to reverse it.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Tianrong Chen , Jiatao Gu , Laurent Dinh , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Joshua Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

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

Understanding human motion from video is essential for a range of applications, including pose estimation, mesh recovery and action recognition. While state-of-the-art methods predominantly rely on transformer-based architectures, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Stefano Alletto , Denis Tome

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful approach for modelling molecular systems, but it remains computationally intensive on spatial and time scales of many macromolecular systems of biological interest. To explore the opportunities offered…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-07 Mhd Hussein Murtada , Z. Faidon Brotzakis , Michele Vendruscolo

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation is a powerful tool for understanding the dynamics and structure of matter. Since the resolution of MD is atomic-scale, achieving long time-scale simulations with femtosecond integration is very expensive.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zijie Li , Kazem Meidani , Prakarsh Yadav , Amir Barati Farimani

We have previously shown that Good-Turing statistics can be applied to molecular dynamics trajectories to estimate the probability of observing completely new (thus far unobserved) biomolecular structures, and showed that the method is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-05 Vasiliki Tsampazi , Nicholas M. Glykos

Spontaneous structural rearrangements play a central role in the organization and function of complex biomolecular systems. In principle, physics-based computer simulations like Molecular Dynamics (MD) enable us to investigate these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Danial Ghamari , Philipp Hauke , Roberto Covino , Pietro Faccioli

The modeling of atomistic biomolecular simulations using kinetic models such as Markov state models (MSMs) has had many notable algorithmic advances in recent years. The variational principle has opened the door for a nearly fully automated…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Martin K. Scherer , Brooke E. Husic , Moritz Hoffmann , Fabian Paul , Hao Wu , Frank Noé

Molecular dynamics (MD) provides insights into atomic-scale processes by integrating over time the equations that describe the motion of atoms under the action of interatomic forces. Machine learning models have substantially accelerated MD…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Filippo Bigi , Sanggyu Chong , Agustinus Kristiadi , Michele Ceriotti