Equilibrium sampling in biomolecular simulations

DM Zuckerman - Annual review of biophysics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Equilibrium sampling of biomolecules remains an unmet challenge after more than 30 years
of atomistic simulation. Efforts to enhance sampling capability, which are reviewed here …

Clustering molecular dynamics trajectories: 1. Characterizing the performance of different clustering algorithms

J Shao, SW Tanner, N Thompson… - Journal of chemical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics simulation methods produce trajectories of atomic positions (and
optionally velocities and energies) as a function of time and provide a representation of the …

[HTML][HTML] Studies on molecular dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins and their fuzzy complexes: a mini-review

K Kasahara, H Terazawa, T Takahashi… - Computational and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The molecular dynamics (MD) method is a promising approach toward elucidating the
molecular mechanisms of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) of proteins and their fuzzy …

Carbon nanotube inhibits the formation of β-sheet-rich oligomers of the Alzheimer's amyloid-β (16-22) peptide

H Li, Y Luo, P Derreumaux, G Wei - Biophysical journal, 2011 - cell.com
Alzheimer's disease is associated with the abnormal self-assembly of the amyloid-β (Aβ)
peptide into toxic β-rich aggregates. Experimental studies have shown that hydrophobic …

Replica exchange molecular dynamics: a practical application protocol with solutions to common problems and a peptide aggregation and self-assembly example

R Qi, G Wei, B Ma, R Nussinov - Peptide self-assembly: Methods and …, 2018 - Springer
Protein aggregation is associated with many human diseases such as Alzheimer's disease
(AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and type II diabetes (T2D). Understanding the molecular …

Molecular dynamics simulations of nucleic acids. From tetranucleotides to the ribosome

J Šponer, P Banáš, P Jurecka… - The journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We present a brief overview of explicit solvent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of
nucleic acids. We explain physical chemistry limitations of the simulations, namely, the …

Multidimensional replica exchange molecular dynamics yields a converged ensemble of an RNA tetranucleotide

C Bergonzo, NM Henriksen, DR Roe… - Journal of Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A necessary step to properly assess and validate the performance of force fields for
biomolecules is to exhaustively sample the accessible conformational space, which is …

Rapid equilibrium sampling initiated from nonequilibrium data

X Huang, GR Bowman, S Bacallado… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Simulating the conformational dynamics of biomolecules is extremely difficult due to the
rugged nature of their free energy landscapes and multiple long-lived, or metastable, states …

Demonstrating an order-of-magnitude sampling enhancement in molecular dynamics simulations of complex protein systems

AC Pan, TM Weinreich, S Piana… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can describe protein motions in atomic detail, but
transitions between protein conformational states sometimes take place on time scales that …

Exchange often and properly in replica exchange molecular dynamics

DJ Sindhikara, DJ Emerson… - Journal of Chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Previous work by us showed that in replica exchange molecular dynamics, exchanges
should be attempted extremely often, providing gains in efficiency and no undesired effects …