Molecular dynamics, monte carlo simulations, and langevin dynamics: a computational review

E Paquet, HL Viktor - BioMed research international, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Macromolecular structures, such as neuraminidases, hemagglutinins, and monoclonal
antibodies, are not rigid entities. Rather, they are characterised by their flexibility, which is …

Modeling nucleic acids

AYL Sim, P Minary, M Levitt - Current opinion in structural biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Nucleic acids are an important class of biological macromolecules that carry out a variety of
cellular roles. For many functions, naturally occurring DNA and RNA molecules need to fold …

A nucleotide-level coarse-grained model of RNA

P Šulc, F Romano, TE Ouldridge, JPK Doye… - The Journal of chemical …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We present a new, nucleotide-level model for RNA, oxRNA, based on the coarse-graining
methodology recently developed for the oxDNA model of DNA. The model is designed to …

Efficient and direct generation of multidimensional free energy surfaces via adiabatic dynamics without coordinate transformations

JB Abrams, ME Tuckerman - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2008 - ACS Publications
Adiabatic free energy dynamics (AFED) was introduced by Rosso et al.[J. Chem. Phys.
2002, 116, 4389] for computing free energy profiles quickly and accurately using a …

A self-learning algorithm for biased molecular dynamics

GA Tribello, M Ceriotti… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
A new self-learning algorithm for accelerated dynamics, reconnaissance metadynamics, is
proposed that is able to work with a very large number of collective coordinates …

Using the local elevation method to construct optimized umbrella sampling potentials: calculation of the relative free energies and interconversion barriers of …

HS Hansen, PH Hünenberger - Journal of computational …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A method is proposed to combine the local elevation (LE) conformational searching and the
umbrella sampling (US) conformational sampling approaches into a single local elevation …

Heating and flooding: A unified approach for rapid generation of free energy surfaces

M Chen, MA Cuendet, ME Tuckerman - The Journal of Chemical …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We propose a general framework for the efficient sampling of conformational equilibria in
complex systems and the generation of associated free energy hypersurfaces in terms of a …

Free energy reconstruction from metadynamics or adiabatic free energy dynamics simulations

MA Cuendet, ME Tuckerman - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2014 - ACS Publications
In molecular dynamics simulations, most enhanced sampling methods are traditionally
associated with one particular estimator to calculate the free energy surface (FES), such as …

Stochastic, resonance-free multiple time-step algorithm for molecular dynamics with very large time steps

B Leimkuhler, DT Margul, ME Tuckerman - Molecular Physics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Molecular dynamics is one of the most commonly used approaches for studying the
dynamics and statistical distributions of physical, chemical, and biological systems using …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular dynamics-based approaches for enhanced sampling of long-time, large-scale conformational changes in biomolecules

T Schlick - F1000 biology reports, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The rugged energy landscape of biomolecules together with shortcomings of traditional
molecular dynamics (MD) simulations require specialized methods for capturing large-scale …