Parallel tempering: Theory, applications, and new perspectives

DJ Earl, MW Deem - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2005‏ - pubs.rsc.org
We review the history of the parallel tempering simulation method. From its origins in data
analysis, the parallel tempering method has become a standard workhorse of …

Effects of confinement on freezing and melting

C Alba-Simionesco, B Coasne, G Dosseh… - Journal of Physics …, 2006‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present a review of experimental, theoretical, and molecular simulation studies of
confinement effects on freezing and melting. We consider both simple and more complex …

Metadynamics: a method to simulate rare events and reconstruct the free energy in biophysics, chemistry and material science

A Laio, FL Gervasio - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2008‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Metadynamics is a powerful algorithm that can be used both for reconstructing the free
energy and for accelerating rare events in systems described by complex Hamiltonians, at …

Multidimensional replica-exchange method for free-energy calculations

Y Sugita, A Kitao, Y Okamoto - The Journal of chemical physics, 2000‏ - pubs.aip.org
We have developed a new simulation algorithm for free-energy calculations. The method is
a multidimensional extension of the replica-exchange method. While pairs of replicas with …

Electrostatic correlations: from plasma to biology

Y Levin - Reports on progress in physics, 2002‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Electrostatic correlations play an important role in physics, chemistry and biology. In
plasmas they result in thermodynamic instability similar to the liquid–gas phase transition of …

On the Hamiltonian replica exchange method for efficient sampling of biomolecular systems: Application to protein structure prediction

H Fukunishi, O Watanabe, S Takada - The Journal of chemical physics, 2002‏ - pubs.aip.org
Motivated by the protein structure prediction problem, we develop two variants of the
Hamiltonian replica exchange methods (REMs) for efficient configuration sampling,(1) the …

Generalized‐ensemble algorithms for molecular simulations of biopolymers

A Mitsutake, Y Sugita, Y Okamoto - Peptide Science: Original …, 2001‏ - Wiley Online Library
In complex systems with many degrees of freedom such as peptides and proteins, there
exists a huge number of local‐minimum‐energy states. Conventional simulations in the …

Free-energy landscape for β hairpin folding from combined parallel tempering and metadynamics

G Bussi, FL Gervasio, A Laio… - Journal of the American …, 2006‏ - ACS Publications
We develope a new free-energy method, based on the combination of parallel tempering
and metadynamics, and apply this method to the calculation of the free-energy landscape of …

An experimentally-informed coarse-grained 3-site-per-nucleotide model of DNA: Structure, thermodynamics, and dynamics of hybridization

DM Hinckley, GS Freeman, JK Whitmer… - The Journal of chemical …, 2013‏ - pubs.aip.org
A new 3-Site-Per-Nucleotide coarse-grained model for DNA is presented. The model
includes anisotropic potentials between bases involved in base stacking and base pair …

Generalized-ensemble algorithms: enhanced sampling techniques for Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations

Y Okamoto - Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, 2004‏ - Elsevier
In complex systems with many degrees of freedom such as spin glass and biomolecular
systems, conventional simulations in canonical ensemble suffer from the quasi-ergodicity …