Descriptor-Free Collective Variables from Geometric Graph Neural Networks

J Zhang, L Bonati, E Trizio, O Zhang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Enhanced sampling simulations make the computational study of rare events feasible. A
large family of such methods crucially depends on the definition of some collective variables …

Host–Guest Binding Free Energies à la Carte: An Automated OneOPES Protocol

P Febrer Martinez, V Rizzi, S Aureli… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Estimating absolute binding free energies from molecular simulations is a key step in
computer-aided drug design pipelines, but the agreement between computational results …

Advanced simulations with PLUMED: OPES and machine learning collective variables

E Trizio, A Rizzi, PM Piaggi, M Invernizzi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Many biological processes occur on time scales longer than those accessible to molecular
dynamics simulations. Identifying collective variables (CVs) and introducing an external …

Combining transition path sampling with data-driven collective variables through a reactivity-biased shooting algorithm

J Zhang, O Zhang, L Bonati, TJ Hou - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Rare event sampling is a central problem in modern computational chemistry research.
Among the existing methods, transition path sampling (TPS) can generate unbiased …

A graph neural network-state predictive information bottleneck (GNN-SPIB) approach for learning molecular thermodynamics and kinetics

Z Zou, D Wang, P Tiwary - Digital Discovery, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular dynamics simulations offer detailed insights into atomic motions but face
timescale limitations. Enhanced sampling methods have addressed these challenges but …

Learning Protein–Ligand Unbinding Pathways via Single-Parameter Community Detection

V Tänzel, M Jäger, S Wolf - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Understanding the dynamics of biomolecular complexes, eg, of protein–ligand (un) binding,
requires the comprehension of paths such systems take between metastable states. In MD …

A Mode Evolution Metric to Extract Reaction Coordinates for Biomolecular Conformational Transitions

M Das, R Venkatramani - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The complex, multidimensional energy landscape of biomolecules makes the extraction of
suitable, nonintuitive collective variables (CVs) that describe their conformational transitions …

[HTML][HTML] DeepLNE++ leveraging knowledge distillation for accelerated multi-state path-like collective variables

T Fröhlking, V Rizzi, S Aureli… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Path-like collective variables (CVs) can be very effective for accurately modeling complex
biomolecular processes in molecular dynamics simulations. Recently, we have introduced …