Weighted ensemble simulation: review of methodology, applications, and software

DM Zuckerman, LT Chong - Annual review of biophysics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The weighted ensemble (WE) methodology orchestrates quasi-independent parallel
simulations run with intermittent communication that can enhance sampling of rare events …

Computational prediction of protein–protein binding affinities

T Siebenmorgen, M Zacharias - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Protein–protein interactions form central elements of almost all cellular processes.
Knowledge of the structure of protein–protein complexes but also of the binding affinity is of …

A suite of tutorials for the WESTPA rare-events sampling software [Article v1. 0]

AT Bogetti, B Mostofian, A Dickson… - Living journal of …, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The weighted ensemble (WE) strategy has been demonstrated to be highly efficient in
generating pathways and rate constants for rare events such as protein folding and protein …

AI-driven multiscale simulations illuminate mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 spike dynamics

L Casalino, AC Dommer, Z Gaieb… - … Journal of High …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
We develop a generalizable AI-driven workflow that leverages heterogeneous HPC
resources to explore the time-dependent dynamics of molecular systems. We use this …

Predicting the structural basis of targeted protein degradation by integrating molecular dynamics simulations with structural mass spectrometry

T Dixon, D MacPherson, B Mostofian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is a promising approach in drug discovery for degrading
proteins implicated in diseases. A key step in this process is the formation of a ternary …

# COVIDisAirborne: AI-enabled multiscale computational microscopy of delta SARS-CoV-2 in a respiratory aerosol

A Dommer, L Casalino, F Kearns… - … journal of high …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We seek to completely revise current models of airborne transmission of respiratory viruses
by providing never-before-seen atomic-level views of the SARS-CoV-2 virus within a …

WESTPA 2.0: High-performance upgrades for weighted ensemble simulations and analysis of longer-timescale applications

JD Russo, S Zhang, JMG Leung… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The weighted ensemble (WE) family of methods is one of several statistical mechanics-
based path sampling strategies that can provide estimates of key observables (rate …

How μ-opioid receptor recognizes fentanyl

QN Vo, P Mahinthichaichan, J Shen, CR Ellis - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Roughly half of the drug overdose-related deaths in the United States are related to
synthetic opioids represented by fentanyl which is a potent agonist of mu-opioid receptor …

Transition path sampling as Markov chain Monte Carlo of trajectories: Recent algorithms, software, applications, and future outlook

PG Bolhuis, DWH Swenson - Advanced Theory and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The development of enhanced sampling methods to investigate rare but important events
has always been a focal point in the molecular simulation field. Such methods often rely on …

Path-sampling strategies for simulating rare events in biomolecular systems

LT Chong, AS Saglam, DM Zuckerman - Current opinion in structural …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Advances, common features, and remaining challenges are presented for path
sampling approaches.•Key strengths are the efficient calculation of transition trajectories and …