A Modified Divide-and-Conquer Linear-Scaling Quantum Force Field with Multipolar Charge Densities

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 2812-2820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Giese ◽  
Ming Huang ◽  
Haoyuan Chen ◽  
Darrin M. York

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1086-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Giese ◽  
Haoyuan Chen ◽  
Ming Huang ◽  
Darrin M. York

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (31) ◽  
pp. 8265-8270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Olsson ◽  
Hao Wu ◽  
Fabian Paul ◽  
Cecilia Clementi ◽  
Frank Noé

Accurate mechanistic description of structural changes in biomolecules is an increasingly important topic in structural and chemical biology. Markov models have emerged as a powerful way to approximate the molecular kinetics of large biomolecules while keeping full structural resolution in a divide-and-conquer fashion. However, the accuracy of these models is limited by that of the force fields used to generate the underlying molecular dynamics (MD) simulation data. Whereas the quality of classical MD force fields has improved significantly in recent years, remaining errors in the Boltzmann weights are still on the order of a few kT, which may lead to significant discrepancies when comparing to experimentally measured rates or state populations. Here we take the view that simulations using a sufficiently good force-field sample conformations that are valid but have inaccurate weights, yet these weights may be made accurate by incorporating experimental data a posteriori. To do so, we propose augmented Markov models (AMMs), an approach that combines concepts from probability theory and information theory to consistently treat systematic force-field error and statistical errors in simulation and experiment. Our results demonstrate that AMMs can reconcile conflicting results for protein mechanisms obtained by different force fields and correct for a wide range of stationary and dynamical observables even when only equilibrium measurements are incorporated into the estimation process. This approach constitutes a unique avenue to combine experiment and computation into integrative models of biomolecular structure and dynamics.


Author(s):  
Mohammad Poursina ◽  
Jeremy Laflin ◽  
Kurt S. Anderson

In molecular simulations, the dominant portion of the computational cost is associated with force field calculations. Herein, we extend the approach used to approximate long range gravitational force and the associated moment in spacecraft dynamics to the coulomb forces present in coarse grained biopolymer simulations. We approximate the resultant force and moment for long-range particle-body and body-body interactions due to the electrostatic force field. The resultant moment approximated here is due to the fact that the net force does not necessarily act through the center of mass of the body (pseudoatom). This moment is considered in multibody-based coarse grain simulations while neglected in bead models which use particle dynamics to address the dynamics of the system. A novel binary divide and conquer algorithm (BDCA) is presented to implement the force field approximation. The proposed algorithm is implemented by considering each rigid/flexible domain as a node of the leaf level of the binary tree. This substructuring strategy is well suited to coarse grain simulations of chain biopolymers using an articulated multibody approach.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 4215-4223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julen Munárriz ◽  
Rubén Laplaza ◽  
A. Martín Pendás ◽  
Julia Contreras-García

A first step towards the construction of a quantum force field for electron pairs in direct space is taken.


1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.R. Maple ◽  
M.-J. Hwang ◽  
T.P. Stockfisch ◽  
A.T. Hagler

Author(s):  
J. R. Maple ◽  
M.-J. Hwang ◽  
K. J. Jalkanen ◽  
T. P. Stockfisch ◽  
A. T. Hagler

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