Kinetics from metadynamics: Principles, applications, and outlook

D Ray, M Parrinello - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Metadynamics is a popular enhanced sampling algorithm for computing the free energy
landscape of rare events by using molecular dynamics simulation. Ten years ago, Tiwary …

Unified approach to enhanced sampling

M Invernizzi, PM Piaggi, M Parrinello - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
The sampling problem lies at the heart of atomistic simulations and over the years many
different enhanced sampling methods have been suggested toward its solution. These …

Mechanistic insight into the competition between interfacial and bulk reactions in microdroplets through N2O5 ammonolysis and hydrolysis

YG Fang, B Tang, C Yuan, Z Wan, L Zhao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Reactive uptake of dinitrogen pentaoxide (N2O5) into aqueous aerosols is a major loss
channel for NOx in the troposphere; however, a quantitative understanding of the uptake …

Supercomputing in the biological sciences: Toward Zettascale and Yottascale simulations

K Sanbonmatsu - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Molecular simulations of biological systems tend to be significantly more compute-intensive
than those in materials science and astrophysics, due to important contributions of long …

Accelerated Photolysis of H2O2 at the Air–Water Interface of a Microdroplet

Z Rao, YG Fang, Y Pan, W Yu, B Chen… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photochemical homolysis of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) occurs widely in nature and is a key
source of hydroxyl radicals (· OH). The kinetics of H2O2 photolysis play a pivotal role in …

CHARMM‐GUI Drude prepper for molecular dynamics simulation using the classical Drude polarizable force field

AA Kognole, J Lee, SJ Park, S Jo… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Explicit treatment of electronic polarizability in empirical force fields (FFs) represents an
extension over a traditional additive or pairwise FF and provides a more realistic model of …

Accurate characterization of binding kinetics and allosteric mechanisms for the HSP90 chaperone inhibitors using AI-augmented integrative biophysical studies

C Xu, X Zhang, L Zhao, GM Verkhivker, F Bai - JACS Au, 2024 - ACS Publications
The binding kinetics of drugs to their targets are gradually being recognized as a crucial
indicator of the efficacy of drugs in vivo, leading to the development of various computational …

Automatic feature selection and weighting in molecular systems using Differentiable Information Imbalance

R Wild, F Wodaczek, V Del Tatto, B Cheng… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Feature selection is essential in the analysis of molecular systems and many other fields, but
several uncertainties remain: What is the optimal number of features for a simplified …

Markovian weighted ensemble milestoning (M-WEM): Long-time kinetics from short trajectories

D Ray, SE Stone, I Andricioaei - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We introduce a rare-event sampling scheme, named Markovian Weighted Ensemble
Milestoning (M-WEM), which inlays a weighted ensemble framework within a Markovian …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering the alphabet of disorder—Glu and Asp act differently on local but not global properties

MA Roesgaard, JE Lundsgaard, EA Newcombe… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Compared to folded proteins, the sequences of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are
enriched in polar and charged amino acids. Glutamate is one of the most enriched amino …