Weighted ensemble simulation: review of methodology, applications, and software

DM Zuckerman, LT Chong - Annual review of biophysics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The weighted ensemble (WE) methodology orchestrates quasi-independent parallel
simulations run with intermittent communication that can enhance sampling of rare events …

Principles and overview of sampling methods for modeling macromolecular structure and dynamics

T Maximova, R Moffatt, B Ma, R Nussinov… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Investigation of macromolecular structure and dynamics is fundamental to understanding
how macromolecules carry out their functions in the cell. Significant advances have been …

[HTML][HTML] A suite of tutorials for the WESTPA rare-events sampling software [Article v1. 0]

AT Bogetti, B Mostofian, A Dickson… - Living journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The weighted ensemble (WE) strategy has been demonstrated to be highly efficient in
generating pathways and rate constants for rare events such as protein folding and protein …

Protein folding kinetics and thermodynamics from atomistic simulation

S Piana, K Lindorff-Larsen… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Advances in simulation techniques and computing hardware have created a substantial
overlap between the timescales accessible to atomic-level simulations and those on which …

WESTPA: An interoperable, highly scalable software package for weighted ensemble simulation and analysis

MC Zwier, JL Adelman, JW Kaus, AJ Pratt… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The weighted ensemble (WE) path sampling approach orchestrates an ensemble of parallel
calculations with intermittent communication to enhance the sampling of rare events, such …

The “weighted ensemble” path sampling method is statistically exact for a broad class of stochastic processes and binning procedures

BW Zhang, D Jasnow, DM Zuckerman - The Journal of chemical …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The “weighted ensemble” method, introduced by Huber and Kim [Biophys. J. 70, 97 (1996)],
is one of a handful of rigorous approaches to path sampling of rare events. Expanding …

Molecular modeling investigations of sorption and diffusion of small molecules in Glassy polymers

N Vergadou, DN Theodorou - Membranes, 2019 - mdpi.com
With a wide range of applications, from energy and environmental engineering, such as in
gas separations and water purification, to biomedical engineering and packaging, glassy …

Reaching biological timescales with all-atom molecular dynamics simulations

MC Zwier, LT Chong - Current opinion in pharmacology, 2010 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can provide atomically detailed views of protein
motions, sampling multiple timescales ranging from femtoseconds to nanoseconds on …

Efficient atomistic simulation of pathways and calculation of rate constants for a protein–peptide binding process: Application to the MDM2 protein and an intrinsically …

MC Zwier, AJ Pratt, JL Adelman, JW Kaus… - The journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The characterization of protein binding processes with all of the key conformational
changes has been a grand challenge in the field of biophysics. Here, we have used the …

Protein–protein binding pathways and calculations of rate constants using fully-continuous, explicit-solvent simulations

AS Saglam, LT Chong - Chemical science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
A grand challenge in the field of biophysics has been the complete characterization of
protein–protein binding processes at atomic resolution. This characterization requires the …