Abstract
We describe and implement a computer-assisted approach for accelerating the exploration of uncharted effective free-energy surfaces (FESs). More generally, the aim is the extraction of coarsegrained, macroscopic information from stochastic or atomistic simulations, such as molecular dynamics (MD). The approach functionally links the MD simulator with nonlinear manifold learning techniques. The added value comes from biasing the simulator toward unexplored phase-space regions by exploiting the smoothness of the gradually revealed intrinsic low-dimensional geometry of the FES.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | E5494-E5503 |
Journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
Volume | 114 |
Issue number | 28 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 11 2017 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General
Keywords
- Enhanced sampling methods
- Free-energy surface
- Machine learning
- Model reduction
- Protein folding