Manifold learning in atomistic simulations: a conceptual review

J Rydzewski, M Chen, O Valsson - Machine Learning: Science …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Analyzing large volumes of high-dimensional data requires dimensionality reduction: finding
meaningful low-dimensional structures hidden in their high-dimensional observations. Such …

Biomolecular infrared spectroscopy: making time for dynamics

NT Hunt - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Time resolved infrared spectroscopy of biological molecules has provided a wealth of
information relating to structural dynamics, conformational changes, solvation and …

Simulation‐Assisted Localized DNA Logical Circuits for Cancer Biomarkers Detection and Imaging

Q Kou, L Wang, L Zhang, L Ma, S Fu, X Su - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
DNA‐based nanodevices equipped with localized modules have been promising probes for
biomarker detection. Such devices heavily rely on the intramolecular hybridization reaction …

Girsanov reweighting enhanced sampling technique (grest): On-the-fly data-driven discovery of and enhanced sampling in slow collective variables

K Shmilovich, AL Ferguson - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics simulations of microscopic phenomena are limited by the short
integration time steps which are required for numerical stability but which limit the practically …

Toward a molecular mechanism of complementary RNA duplexes denaturation

A Dabin, G Stirnemann - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023 - ACS Publications
RNA duplexes are relatively rare but play very important biological roles. As an end-product
of template-based RNA replication, they also have key implications for hypothetical primitive …

Chasing collective variables using temporal data-driven strategies

H Chen, C Chipot - QRB discovery, 2023 - cambridge.org
The convergence of free-energy calculations based on importance sampling depends
heavily on the choice of collective variables (CVs), which in principle, should include the …

Thermodynamics and kinetics of DNA and RNA dinucleotide hybridization to gaps and overhangs

B Ashwood, MS Jones, A Radakovic, S Khanna… - Biophysical …, 2023 - cell.com
Hybridization of short nucleic acid segments (< 4 nt) to single-strand templates occurs as a
critical intermediate in processes such as nonenzymatic nucleic acid replication and toehold …

Transient states during the annealing of mismatched and bulged oligonucleotides

M Todisco, D Ding, JW Szostak - Nucleic Acids Research, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Oligonucleotide hybridization is crucial in various biological, prebiotic and
nanotechnological processes, including gene regulation, non-enzymatic primer extension …

Disruption of energetic and dynamic base-pairing cooperativity in DNA duplexes by an abasic site

B Ashwood, MS Jones, AL Ferguson, A Tokmakoff - Biophysical Journal, 2024 - cell.com
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 459a short segment cannot overcome the added free-
energy barrier, but moving the AP site inward produces segments long enough to stably …

Displacement and dissociation of oligonucleotides during DNA hairpin closure under strain

F Ding, S Cocco, S Raj, M Manosas… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The hybridization kinetic of an oligonucleotide to its template is a fundamental step in many
biological processes such as replication arrest, CRISPR recognition, DNA sequencing, DNA …