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Learning meaningful causal representations from observations has emerged as a crucial task for facilitating machine learning applications and driving scientific discoveries in fields such as climate science, biology, and physics. This…

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Predicting diverse human motions given a sequence of historical poses has received increasing attention. Despite rapid progress, existing work captures the multi-modal nature of human motions primarily through likelihood-based sampling,…

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Despite significant progress in static protein structure collection and prediction, the dynamic behavior of proteins, one of their most vital characteristics, has been largely overlooked in prior research. This oversight can be attributed…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-19 Ce Liu , Jun Wang , Zhiqiang Cai , Yingxu Wang , Huizhen Kuang , Kaihui Cheng , Liwei Zhang , Qingkun Su , Yining Tang , Fenglei Cao , Limei Han , Siyu Zhu , Yuan Qi

Recent advances in protein function prediction exploit graph-based deep learning approaches to correlate the structural and topological features of proteins with their molecular functions. However, proteins in vivo are not static but…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-22 Yuan Chiang , Wei-Han Hui , Shu-Wei Chang

Identifying a reduced set of collective variables is critical for understanding atomistic simulations and accelerating them through enhanced sampling techniques. Recently, several methods have been proposed to learn these variables directly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Luigi Bonati , Enrico Trizio , Andrea Rizzi , Michele Parrinello

We present a method for enhanced sampling of molecular dynamics simulations using stochastic resetting. Various phenomena, ranging from crystal nucleation to protein folding, occur on timescales that are unreachable in standard simulations.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Ofir Blumer , Shlomi Reuveni , Barak Hirshberg

Unraveling the dynamical motions of biomolecules is essential for bridging their structure and function, yet it remains a major computational challenge. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation provides a detailed depiction of biomolecular…

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Proteins are complex biomolecules that play a central role in various biological processes, making them critical targets for breakthroughs in molecular biology, medical research, and drug discovery. Deciphering their intricate, hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Viet Thanh Duy Nguyen , Truong-Son Hy

In modern day simulations of many-body systems much of the computational complexity is shifted to the identification of slowly changing molecular order parameters called collective variables (CV) or reaction coordinates. A vast array of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-27 Pratyush Tiwary , B. J. Berne

Many methods have been developed to predict static protein structures, however understanding the dynamics of protein structure is essential for elucidating biological function. While molecular dynamics (MD) simulations remain the in silico…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-21 Mihir Bafna , Bowen Jing , Bonnie Berger

A powerful approach for understanding neural population dynamics is to extract low-dimensional trajectories from population recordings using dimensionality reduction methods. Current approaches for dimensionality reduction on neural data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Marcel Nonnenmacher , Srinivas C. Turaga , Jakob H. Macke

In this manuscript we propose a mathematical framework to couple transcription and translation in which mRNA production is described by a set of master equations while the dynamics of protein density is governed by a random differential…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-30 Guilherme C. P. Innocentini , Michael Forger , Ovidiu Radulescu , Fernando Antoneli

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

Protein-ligand scoring is an important step in a structure-based drug design pipeline. Selecting a correct binding pose and predicting the binding affinity of a protein-ligand complex enables effective virtual screening. Machine learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-19 Joshua Hochuli , Alec Helbling , Tamar Skaist , Matthew Ragoza , David Ryan Koes

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

Simulations of biological macromolecules play an important role in understanding the physical basis of a number of complex processes such as protein folding. Even with increasing computational power and evolution of specialized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Hyungro Lee , Heng Ma , Matteo Turilli , Debsindhu Bhowmik , Shantenu Jha , Arvind Ramanathan

Acquiring plausible pathways on high-dimensional structural distributions is beneficial in several domains. For example, in the drug discovery field, a protein conformational pathway, i.e. a highly probable sequence of protein structural…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-04 Ziyad Oulhaj , Yoshiyuki Ishii , Kento Ohga , Kimihiro Yamazaki , Mutsuyo Wada , Yuhei Umeda , Takashi Kato , Yuichiro Wada , Hiroaki Kurihara

The limits of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of macromolecules are steadily pushed forward by the relentless developments of computer architectures and algorithms. This explosion in the number and extent (in size and time) of MD…

Disordered proteins play essential roles in myriad cellular processes, yet their structural characterization remains a major challenge due to their dynamic and heterogeneous nature. We here present a community-driven initiative to address…