Markov state models: From an art to a science

BE Husic, VS Pande - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018 - ACS Publications
Markov state models (MSMs) are a powerful framework for analyzing dynamical systems,
such as molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, that have gained widespread use over the …

Ensemble docking in drug discovery

RE Amaro, J Baudry, J Chodera, Ö Demir… - Biophysical journal, 2018 - cell.com
Ensemble docking corresponds to the generation of an" ensemble" of drug target
conformations in computational structure-based drug discovery, often obtained by using …

Molecular dynamics simulations: advances and applications

A Hospital, JR Goñi, M Orozco… - … and Applications in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Molecular dynamics simulations have evolved into a mature technique that can be used
effectively to understand macromolecular structure-to-function relationships. Present …

HTMD: high-throughput molecular dynamics for molecular discovery

S Doerr, MJ Harvey, F Noé… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in molecular simulations have allowed scientists to investigate slower
biological processes than ever before. Together with these advances came an explosion of …

Protein ensembles: how does nature harness thermodynamic fluctuations for life? The diverse functional roles of conformational ensembles in the cell

G Wei, W Xi, R Nussinov, B Ma - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
All soluble proteins populate conformational ensembles that together constitute the native
state. Their fluctuations in water are intrinsic thermodynamic phenomena, and the …

Improved reweighting of accelerated molecular dynamics simulations for free energy calculation

Y Miao, W Sinko, L Pierce, D Bucher… - Journal of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Accelerated molecular dynamics (aMD) simulations greatly improve the efficiency of
conventional molecular dynamics (cMD) for sampling biomolecular conformations, but they …

Exploiting a natural conformational switch to engineer an interleukin-2 'superkine'

AM Levin, DL Bates, AM Ring, C Krieg, JT Lin, L Su… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The immunostimulatory cytokine interleukin-2 (IL-2) is a growth factor for a wide range of
leukocytes, including T cells and natural killer (NK) cells,,. Considerable effort has been …

Everything you wanted to know about Markov State Models but were afraid to ask

VS Pande, K Beauchamp, GR Bowman - Methods, 2010 - Elsevier
Simulating protein folding has been a challenging problem for decades due to the long
timescales involved (compared with what is possible to simulate) and the challenges of …

MSMBuilder: statistical models for biomolecular dynamics

MP Harrigan, MM Sultan, CX Hernández, BE Husic… - Biophysical journal, 2017 - cell.com
MSMBuilder is a software package for building statistical models of high-dimensional time-
series data. It is designed with a particular focus on the analysis of atomistic simulations of …

Cloud-based simulations on Google Exacycle reveal ligand modulation of GPCR activation pathways

KJ Kohlhoff, D Shukla, M Lawrenz, GR Bowman… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Simulations can provide tremendous insight into the atomistic details of biological
mechanisms, but micro-to millisecond timescales are historically only accessible on …