Monte Carlo vs molecular dynamics for conformational sampling

WL Jorgensen, J Tirado-Rives - The Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1996 - ACS Publications
… A comparison study has been carried out to test the relative efficiency of Metropolis Monte
Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations for conformational sampling. The test case that has …

Monte Carlo vs molecular dynamics for all-atom polypeptide folding simulations

JP Ulmschneider, MB Ulmschneider… - The Journal of Physical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
… up conformational sampling, the temperature was set to 323 K, close to the experimental
melting temperature of 345 K. First, we compared the various different conformations sampled

Sampling conformational changes of bound ligands using nonequilibrium candidate Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics

S Sasmal, SC Gill, NM Lim… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… In this work, we use a hybrid molecular dynamics (MD)/nonequilibrium candidate Monte
Carlo (NCMC) method to sample the different binding modes of several flexible ligands and also …

Methods for Monte Carlo simulations of biomacromolecules

A Vitalis, RV Pappu - Annual reports in computational chemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
… of computational science, Monte Carlo (MC) sampling is not … gradient-based techniques such
as molecular dynamics (MD [3]) … may gain in appeal for the simulation community. Here, we …

A smart Monte Carlo technique for free energy simulations of multiconformational molecules. Direct calculations of the conformational populations of organic …

H Senderowitz, F Guarnieri, WC Still - Journal of the American …, 1995 - ACS Publications
… , molecular or stochastic dynamics (MD or SD) and Metropolis Monte Carlo (MMC),3 have
difficulty in sampling all the low-energy regions of conformational space when there are large …

Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations for protein–ligand binding and inhibitor design

DJ Cole, J Tirado-Rives, WL Jorgensen - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2015 - Elsevier
… (FEP), in combination with molecular dynamics (MD) or Monte Carlo (MC) sampling, is a …
sampled with the correct Boltzmann weight. Numerous examples of quasi-ergodic sampling

Conformational sampling using high‐temperature molecular dynamics

RE Bruccoleri, M Karplus - Biopolymers: Original Research on …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
… an estimate of the free energy, molecular dynamics can be used to explore the potential of
… In this paper, we test high-temperature molecular dynamics as a method of conformational

DICE: A Monte Carlo code for molecular simulation including the configurational bias Monte Carlo method

HM Cezar, S Canuto, K Coutinho - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… The efficiency of the conformational sampling was analyzed using the acceptance rates of …
We show that the CBMC is a very good method to perform conformation sampling of complex …

Sampling of the conformational landscape of small proteins with Monte Carlo methods

N Heilmann, M Wolf, M Kozlowska, E Sedghamiz… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
… constrained by the femtosecond timestep of molecular dynamics simulations. For this reason…
all-atom Monte Carlo approach that permits the modelling of the large-scale conformational

Multi-conformation Monte Carlo: A method for introducing flexibility in efficient simulations of many-protein systems

V Prytkova, M Heyden, D Khago… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
… We present a novel multi-conformation Monte Carlo simulation method that enables the
modeling of protein–protein interactions and aggregation in crowded protein solutions. This …