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ArticleJournal of chemical theory and computation2017

Gaussian Accelerated Molecular Dynamics in NAMD.

Yui Tik Pang, Yinglong Miao, Yi Wang, J Andrew McCammon

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Article in Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 94 papers.

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94citing papers in PubMed
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yui Tik PangDepartment of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong , Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Yi WangDepartment of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong , Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong.ORCID 0000-0002-4174-8790
J Andrew McCammon
Chinese University of Hong Kong · HK

Funding

National Biomedical Computation Resource - Competitive Revision SupplementP41GM103426 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI AMARO, ROMMIE E · 2012 to 2019
$14.0M
THEORY OF BIOMOLECULAR DIFFUSIONR01GM031749 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI HUBER, GARY ALEXANDER, MCCAMMON, JAMES ANDREW · 1985 to 2022
$7.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103426NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM031749
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) is a recently developed enhanced sampling technique that provides efficient free energy calculations of biomolecules. Like the previous accelerated molecular dynamics (aMD), GaMD allows for "unconstrained" enhanced sampling without the need to set predefined collective variables and so is useful for studying complex biomolecular conformational changes such as protein folding and ligand binding. Furthermore, because the boost potential is constructed using a harmonic function that follows Gaussian distribution in GaMD, cumulant expansion to the second order can be applied to recover the original free energy profiles of proteins and other large biomolecules, which solves a long-standing energetic reweighting problem of the previous aMD method. Taken together, GaMD offers major advantages for both unconstrained enhanced sampling and free energy calculations of large biomolecules. Here, we have implemented GaMD in the NAMD package on top of the existing aMD feature and validated it on three model systems: alanine dipeptide, the chignolin fast-folding protein, and the M

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PMID28034310
PMCPMC5743237
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