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We apply the general protocol of parameter optimization (Lee, J. et al. Phys. Chem. B 2001, 105, 7291) to the UNRES potential. In contrast to the earlier works where only the relative weights of various interaction terms were optimized, we…
We present a detailed study of the performance and reliability of design procedures based on energy minimization. The analysis is carried out for model proteins where exact results can be obtained through exhaustive enumeration. The…
Proteins are complex molecules responsible for different functions in nature. Enhancing the functionality of proteins and cellular fitness can significantly impact various industries. However, protein optimization using computational…
We propose a novel method for refining force-field parameters of protein systems. In this method, the agreement of the secondary-structure stability and instability between the protein conformations obtained by experiments and those…
Predicting protein 3D structure from amino acid sequence remains as a challenge in the field of computational biology. If protein structure homologues are not found, one has to construct 3D structural conformations from the very beginning…
The ability to engineer novel proteins with higher fitness for a desired property would be revolutionary for biotechnology and medicine. Modeling the combinatorially large space of sequences is infeasible; prior methods often constrain…
Position-controlled systems driving repetitive tasks are of significant importance in industrial machinery. The electric actuators used in these systems are responsible for a large part of the global energy consumption, indicating that…
In this work, we present a new fitting of the Na+HF potential energy surface (PES) utilizing a new optmization method based in Genetic Algorithm. Topology studies, such as isoenergetic contours and Minimum Energy Path(MEP), show that the…
We propose a novel method to optimize existing force-field parameters for protein systems. The method consists of minimizing the summation of the square of the force acting on each atom in the proteins with the structures from the Protein…
The hybrid particle-field molecular dynamics method is an efficient alternative to standard particle-based coarse grained approaches. In this work, we propose an automated protocol for optimisation of the effective parameters that define…
Structural optimization has been a crucial component in computational materials research, and structure predictions have relied heavily on this technique in particular. In this study, we introduce a novel method that enhances the efficiency…
Programmable data planes allow for sophisticated applications that give operators the power to customize the functionality of their networks. Deploying these applications, however, often requires tedious and burdensome optimization of their…
Free energy landscapes encode the kinetics, intermediates, and transition states that govern molecular processes and are thus a key target of single biomolecule research. Typical approaches to deriving optimal, error-minimizing,…
Protein design, a grand challenge of the day, involves optimization on a fitness landscape, and leading methods adopt a model-based approach where a model is trained on a training set (protein sequences and fitness) and proposes candidates…
We propose and discuss a novel strategy for protein design. The method is based on recent theoretical advancements which showed the importance to treat carefully the conformational free energy of designed sequences. In this work we show how…
Enhanced sampling methods such as metadynamics and umbrella sampling have become essential tools for exploring the configuration space of molecules and materials. At the same time, they have long faced a number of issues such as the…
Accurate exploration of protein conformational ensembles is essential for uncovering function but remains hard because molecular-dynamics (MD) simulations suffer from high computational costs and energy-barrier trapping. This paper presents…
Machine learning and the use of neural networks has increased precipitously over the past few years primarily due to the ever-increasing accessibility to data and the growth of computation power. It has become increasingly easy to harness…
A simple approach is proposed to investigate the protein structure. Using a low complexity model, a simple pairwise interaction and the concept of global optimization, we are able to calculate ground states of proteins, which are in…
We apply a new approach to the reverse protein folding problem. Our method uses a minimization function in the design process which is different from the energy function used for folding. For a lattice model, we show that this new approach…