Unsupervised learning methods for molecular simulation data

A Glielmo, BE Husic, A Rodriguez, C Clementi… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Unsupervised learning is becoming an essential tool to analyze the increasingly large
amounts of data produced by atomistic and molecular simulations, in material science, solid …

Recent advances of molecular dynamics simulations in nanotribology

I Srivastava, A Kotia, SK Ghosh, MKA Ali - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2021 - Elsevier
To improve the efficiency of a machinery component, it is necessary to enhance the quality
of lubricants. Lubricants help to reduce the friction and wear between the two surfaces which …

VMD store–A VMD plugin to browse, discover, and install VMD extensions

HS Fernandes, SF Sousa… - Journal of Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Herein we present the VMD Store, an open-source VMD plugin that simplifies the way that
users browse, discover, install, update, and uninstall extensions for the Visual Molecular …

Metadynamics: A unified framework for accelerating rare events and sampling thermodynamics and kinetics

G Bussi, A Laio, P Tiwary - … of materials modeling: Methods: theory and …, 2020 - Springer
Metadynamics is an enhanced sampling algorithm in which the normal evolution of the
system is biased by a history-dependent potential constructed as a sum of Gaussians …

Advanced simulation techniques for the thermodynamic and kinetic characterization of biological systems

C Camilloni, F Pietrucci - Advances in Physics: X, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This review discusses successful strategies and key open problems in the kinetic and
thermodynamic characterization of complex biomolecular systems by computer simulations …

Zooming in on the o–o bond formation—an ab initio molecular dynamics study applying enhanced sampling techniques

M Schilling, RA Cunha, S Luber - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Mastering artificial water oxidation is a key step on moving away from fossil fuels toward a
carbon emission-free society. Unfortunately, the crucial chemical transformation of this …

Phosphorylation regulates the binding of intrinsically disordered proteins via a flexible conformation selection mechanism

N Liu, Y Guo, S Ning, M Duan - Communications Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Phosphorylation is one of the most common post-translational modifications. The
phosphorylation of the kinase-inducible domain (KID), which is an intrinsically disordered …

Solvent effects and aggregation phenomena studied by vibrational optical activity and molecular dynamics: the case of pantolactone

S Ghidinelli, S Abbate, J Koshoubu… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Raman and Raman optical activity (ROA), IR, and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD)
spectra of (R)-and (S)-pantolactone have been recorded in three solvents. ROA has been …

Human learning for molecular simulations: the Collective Variables Dashboard in VMD

J Hénin, LJS Lopes, G Fiorin - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The Collective Variables Dashboard is a software tool for real-time, seamless exploration of
molecular structures and trajectories in a customizable space of collective variables. The …

Expanded functionality and portability for the Colvars library

G Fiorin, F Marinelli, LR Forrest, H Chen… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Colvars is an open-source C++ library that provides a modular toolkit for collective-variable-
based molecular simulations. It allows practitioners to easily create and implement …