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ArticleScience advances2016

Blind protein structure prediction using accelerated free-energy simulations.

Alberto Perez, Joseph A Morrone, Emiliano Brini, Justin L MacCallum, Ken A Dill

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Article in Science advances, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Beyond Classical Force Fields: Physics-Driven Assessment of the Grappa Machine-Learned Force Field on the FoldBind Dataset.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2026
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  4. MELD in Action: Harnessing Data to Accelerate Molecular Dynamics.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2025
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  17. Protein storytelling through physics.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2020
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  18. Computing Ligands Bound to Proteins Using MELD-Accelerated MD.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Alberto PerezLaufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5054-5338
Joseph A MorroneLaufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
Emiliano BriniLaufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
Justin L MacCallumDepartment of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
Ken A DillLaufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.; Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.; Department of Physics Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.

Funding

New Solvent Models, Sampling Methods and Maintenance of Amber SoftwareR01GM107104 · NIGMS · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI SIMMERLING, CARLOS · 2013 to 2020
$2.4M
New Mathematical Methods for Protein Loop ModelingR01GM090205 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO · PI COUTSIAS, EVANGELOS A. · 2009 to 2012
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM090205NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM107104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a key proof of principle of a new acceleration method [Modeling Employing Limited Data (MELD)] for predicting protein structures by molecular dynamics simulation. It shows that such Boltzmann-satisfying techniques are now sufficiently fast and accurate to predict native protein structures in a limited test within the Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) community-wide blind competition.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationProtein FoldingSoftwareProteinsProteinsmolecular dynamicsProtein foldingreplica exchangesimulationsstructure prediction

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PMID27847872
PMCPMC5106196

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