Markov state models to study the functional dynamics of proteins in the wake of machine learning

KA Konovalov, IC Unarta, S Cao, EC Goonetilleke… - JACS Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Markov state models (MSMs) based on molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are routinely
employed to study protein folding, however, their application to functional conformational …

AARON: an automated reaction optimizer for new catalysts

Y Guan, VM Ingman, BJ Rooks… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We describe an open-source computational toolkit (AARON: An Automated Reaction
Optimizer for New catalysts) that automates the quantum mechanical geometry optimization …

Phase variety in ionic liquids: Hydrogen bonding and molecular conformations

H Abe - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2021 - Elsevier
Ionic liquids (ILs) have a phase variety due to degrees of freedom of hydrogen bonding and
molecular conformations. Liquid, amorphous, and crystal phases of the ILs and their …

Transition path sampling as Markov chain Monte Carlo of trajectories: Recent algorithms, software, applications, and future outlook

PG Bolhuis, DWH Swenson - Advanced Theory and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The development of enhanced sampling methods to investigate rare but important events
has always been a focal point in the molecular simulation field. Such methods often rely on …

MolFinder: an evolutionary algorithm for the global optimization of molecular properties and the extensive exploration of chemical space using SMILES

Y Kwon, J Lee - Journal of cheminformatics, 2021 - Springer
Here, we introduce a new molecule optimization method, MolFinder, based on an efficient
global optimization algorithm, the conformational space annealing algorithm, and the …

Design of single-layer metasurface filter by conformational space annealing algorithm for 5G mm-wave communications

YP Hong, IJ Hwang, DJ Yun, DJ Lee, IH Lee - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we first demonstrate a metasurface that offers spectral filter performances not
yet reported for a single-layer metasurface because of the limited number of geometric …

Metadynamics of paths

D Mandelli, B Hirshberg, M Parrinello - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We present a method to sample reactive pathways via biased molecular dynamics
simulations in trajectory space. We show that the use of enhanced sampling techniques …

Probing Conical Intersection in the Multipathway Isomerization of CH3Cl Using Coulomb Explosion

Z Guo, M Zhang, X Dong, J Wang, Z Li… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ubiquitous ultrafast isomerization is paramount in photoexcited molecules, in which non-
adiabatic coupling among multiple electronic states can occur. We use the pump–probe …

Ligand unbinding pathway and mechanism analysis assisted by machine learning and graph methods

S Bray, V Tänzel, S Wolf - Journal of Chemical Information and …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We present two methods to reveal protein–ligand unbinding mechanisms in biased
unbinding simulations by clustering trajectories into ensembles representing unbinding …

[HTML][HTML] Finding multiple reaction pathways of ligand unbinding

J Rydzewski, O Valsson - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Searching for reaction pathways describing rare events in large systems presents a long-
standing challenge in chemistry and physics. Incorrectly computed reaction pathways result …