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Machine Learning of Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Force Fields

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Wang, Jiang, Olsson, Simon, Wehmeyer, Christoph, Pérez, Adrià, Charron, Nicholas E., de Fabritiis, Gianni, Noé, Frank, Clementi, Cecilia·2019·ACS Central Science

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Atomistic or ab initio molecular dynamics simulations are widely used to predict thermodynamics and kinetics and relate them to molecular structure. A common approach to go beyond the time- and length-scales accessible with such computationally expensive simulations is the definition of coarse-grained molecular models. Existing coarse-graining approaches define an effective interaction potential to match defined properties of high-resolution models or experimental data. In this paper, we reformulate coarse-graining as a supervised machine learning problem. We use statistical learning theory to decompose the coarse-graining error and cross-validation to select and compare the performance of different models. We introduce CGnets, a deep learning approach, that learns coarse-grained free energy functions and can be trained by a force-matching scheme. CGnets maintain all physically relevant invariances and allow one to incorporate prior physics knowledge to avoid sampling of unphysical structures. We show that CGnets can capture all-atom explicit-solvent free energy surfaces with models using only a few coarse-grained beads and no solvent, while classical coarse-graining methods fail to capture crucial features of the free energy surface. Thus, CGnets are able to capture multibody terms that emerge from the dimensionality reduction.

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Authors
Wang, J., Olsson, S., Wehmeyer, C., Pérez, A., Charron, N. E., de Fabritiis, G., Noé, F., & Clementi, C.
Venue
ACS Central Science
Published
2019-04-15
Volume
5
Issue
5
Pages
755-767
ISSN
  • 2374-7943 (ISSN-L)
  • 2374-7951
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W2901995873
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524
References
20
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20.41
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journal article
Language
en
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Wang, J., Olsson, S., Wehmeyer, C., Pérez, A., Charron, N. E., de Fabritiis, G., Noé, F., & Clementi, C. (2019). Machine Learning of Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Force Fields. ACS Central Science. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.8b00913

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