Perspective: Advances, challenges, and insight for predictive coarse-grained models

WG Noid - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023 - ACS Publications
By averaging over atomic details, coarse-grained (CG) models provide profound
computational and conceptual advantages for studying soft materials. In particular, bottom …

Protein function analysis through machine learning

C Avery, J Patterson, T Grear, T Frater, DJ Jacobs - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Machine learning (ML) has been an important arsenal in computational biology used to
elucidate protein function for decades. With the recent burgeoning of novel ML methods and …

A unified coarse-grained model of biological macromolecules based on mean-field multipole–multipole interactions

A Liwo, M Baranowski, C Czaplewski, E Gołaś… - Journal of molecular …, 2014 - Springer
A unified coarse-grained model of three major classes of biological molecules—proteins,
nucleic acids, and polysaccharides—has been developed. It is based on the observations …

Investigation of protein folding by coarse-grained molecular dynamics with the UNRES force field

GG Maisuradze, P Senet, C Czaplewski… - The Journal of …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations offer a dramatic extension of the time-scale
of simulations compared to all-atom approaches. In this article, we describe the use of the …

UNRES server for physics-based coarse-grained simulations and prediction of protein structure, dynamics and thermodynamics

C Czaplewski, A Karczyńska… - Nucleic Acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A server implementation of the UNRES package (http://www. unres. pl) for coarse-grained
simulations of protein structures with the physics-based UNRES model, coined a name …

Theory and practice of coarse-grained molecular dynamics of biologically important systems

A Liwo, C Czaplewski, AK Sieradzan, AG Lipska… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics with coarse-grained models is nowadays extensively used to simulate
biomolecular systems at large time and size scales, compared to those accessible to all …

BOCS: Bottom-up open-source coarse-graining software

NJH Dunn, KM Lebold, MR DeLyser… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We present the BOCS toolkit as a suite of open source software tools for parametrizing
bottom-up coarse-grained (CG) models to accurately reproduce structural and …

Modeling protein structures with the coarse-grained UNRES force field in the CASP14 experiment

A Antoniak, I Biskupek, KK Bojarski… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The UNited RESidue (UNRES) force field was tested in the 14th Community Wide
Experiment on the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction …

WeFold: a coopetition for protein structure prediction

GA Khoury, A Liwo, F Khatib, H Zhou… - Proteins: Structure …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The protein structure prediction problem continues to elude scientists. Despite the
introduction of many methods, only modest gains were made over the last decade for certain …

Performance of protein-structure predictions with the physics-based UNRES force field in CASP11

P Krupa, MA Mozolewska, M Wiśniewska, Y Yin… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Participating as the Cornell-Gdansk group, we have used our physics-based coarse-grained
UNited RESidue (UNRES) force field to predict protein structure in the 11th Community Wide …