Markov state models: From an art to a science

BE Husic, VS Pande - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018 - ACS Publications
Markov state models (MSMs) are a powerful framework for analyzing dynamical systems,
such as molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, that have gained widespread use over the …

Markov state models of biomolecular conformational dynamics

JD Chodera, F Noé - Current opinion in structural biology, 2014 - Elsevier
It has recently become practical to construct Markov state models (MSMs) that reproduce the
long-time statistical conformational dynamics of biomolecules using data from molecular …

VAMPnets for deep learning of molecular kinetics

A Mardt, L Pasquali, H Wu, F Noé - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
There is an increasing demand for computing the relevant structures, equilibria, and long-
timescale kinetics of biomolecular processes, such as protein-drug binding, from high …

PyEMMA 2: A software package for estimation, validation, and analysis of Markov models

MK Scherer, B Trendelkamp-Schroer… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Markov (state) models (MSMs) and related models of molecular kinetics have recently
received a surge of interest as they can systematically reconcile simulation data from either …

Markov state models to study the functional dynamics of proteins in the wake of machine learning

KA Konovalov, IC Unarta, S Cao, EC Goonetilleke… - JACS Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Markov state models (MSMs) based on molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are routinely
employed to study protein folding, however, their application to functional conformational …

Constructing Markov State Models to elucidate the functional conformational changes of complex biomolecules

W Wang, S Cao, L Zhu, X Huang - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The function of complex biomolecular machines relies heavily on their conformational
changes. Investigating these functional conformational changes is therefore essential for …

Robust density-based clustering to identify metastable conformational states of proteins

F Sittel, G Stock - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2016 - ACS Publications
A density-based clustering method is proposed that is deterministic, computationally
efficient, and self-consistent in its parameter choice. By calculating a geometric coordinate …

Protein function analysis through machine learning

C Avery, J Patterson, T Grear, T Frater, DJ Jacobs - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Machine learning (ML) has been an important arsenal in computational biology used to
elucidate protein function for decades. With the recent burgeoning of novel ML methods and …

Conformational heterogeneity of the calmodulin binding interface

D Shukla, A Peck, VS Pande - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Calmodulin (CaM) is a ubiquitous Ca2+ sensor and a crucial signalling hub in many
pathways aberrantly activated in disease. However, the mechanistic basis of its ability to …

Investigating molecular kinetics by variationally optimized diffusion maps

L Boninsegna, G Gobbo, F Noé… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Identification of the collective coordinates that describe rare events in complex molecular
transitions such as protein folding has been a key challenge in the theoretical molecular …