Machine learning approaches for analyzing and enhancing molecular dynamics simulations
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Molecular dynamics (MD) has become a powerful tool for studying biophysical systems, due to increasing computational power and availability of software. Although MD has made many contributions to better understanding these complex biophysical systems, there remain methodological difficulties to be surmounted. First, how to make the deluge of data generated in running even a microsecond long MD simulation human comprehensible. Second, how to efficiently sample the underlying free energy surface and kinetics. In this short perspective, we summarize machine learning based ideas that are solving both of these limitations, with a focus on their key theoretical underpinnings and remaining challenges.
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A number of groups in the molecular dynamics community are applying new machine learning methods to allow exploration of trajectories in less frustrated latent spaces.
“Second, a number of groups in the molecular dynamics community are applying new machine learning methods to allow exploration of trajectories in less frustrated latent spaces30.”
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- Authors
- Wang, Y., Lamim Ribeiro, J. M., & Tiwary, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- Corresponding author
- Tiwary, Pratyush
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Structural Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-04
- Volume
- 61
- Pages
- 139-145
- ISSN
- 0959-440X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3000999892
- Cited by
- 303
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 36 · 2025: 53 · 2024: 49 · 2023: 61 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 35 · 2020: 20
- FWCI
- 3.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Structural Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- NCI-UMD Partnership for Integrative Cancer Research
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
- Keywords
- machine learning, molecular dynamics simulation, free energy landscape, reaction kinetics, sampling efficiency, biophysical systems
- MeSH terms
- Machine Learning, Algorithms, Models, Theoretical, Software, Neural Networks, Computer, Molecular Dynamics Simulation
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