Enhanced sampling techniques in molecular dynamics simulations of biological systems

RC Bernardi, MCR Melo, K Schulten - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Molecular dynamics has emerged as an important research methodology
covering systems to the level of millions of atoms. However, insufficient sampling often limits …

An overview of the Amber biomolecular simulation package

R Salomon‐Ferrer, DA Case… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular dynamics (MD) allows the study of biological and chemical systems at the
atomistic level on timescales from femtoseconds to milliseconds. It complements experiment …

Decoding the identification mechanism of an SAM-III Riboswitch on ligands through multiple independent Gaussian-accelerated molecular dynamics simulations

J Chen, Q Zeng, W Wang, H Sun… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
S-Adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM)-responsive riboswitches play a central role in the regulation
of bacterial gene expression at the level of transcription attenuation or translation inhibition …

Assessment of mutations on RBD in the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha, Delta and Omicron variants

CHS da Costa, CAB de Freitas, CN Alves… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus 2 (CoV-2) variant Omicron
spread more rapid than the other variants of SARS-CoV-2 virus. Mutations on the Spike (S) …

Long-time-step molecular dynamics through hydrogen mass repartitioning

CW Hopkins, S Le Grand, RC Walker… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Previous studies have shown that the method of hydrogen mass repartitioning (HMR) is a
potentially useful tool for accelerating molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. By …

Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics: unconstrained enhanced sampling and free energy calculation

Y Miao, VA Feher, JA McCammon - Journal of chemical theory …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) approach for simultaneous enhanced
sampling and free energy calculation of biomolecules is presented. By constructing a boost …

Routine microsecond molecular dynamics simulations with AMBER on GPUs. 2. Explicit solvent particle mesh Ewald

R Salomon-Ferrer, AW Gotz, D Poole… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We present an implementation of explicit solvent all atom classical molecular dynamics (MD)
within the AMBER program package that runs entirely on CUDA-enabled GPUs. First …

Biophysical experiments and biomolecular simulations: A perfect match?

S Bottaro, K Lindorff-Larsen - Science, 2018 - science.org
A fundamental challenge in biological research is achieving an atomic-level description and
mechanistic understanding of the function of biomolecules. Techniques for biomolecular …

Mutation-induced impacts on the switch transformations of the GDP-and GTP-bound K-ras: Insights from multiple replica Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics …

J Chen, S Zhang, W Wang, L Pang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Mutations yield significant effect on the structural flexibility of two switch domains, SW1 and
SW2, in K-Ras, which is considered as an important target of anticancer drug design. To …

Perspective: Coarse-grained models for biomolecular systems

WG Noid - The Journal of chemical physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
By focusing on essential features, while averaging over less important details, coarse-
grained (CG) models provide significant computational and conceptual advantages with …