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ArticleNature communications2018

VAMPnets for deep learning of molecular kinetics.

Andreas Mardt, Luca Pasquali, Hao Wu, Frank Noé

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 173 papers.

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4 authors.

Andreas MardtDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
Luca PasqualiDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
Hao WuDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
Frank NoéDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195, Berlin, Germany. frank.noe@fu-berlin.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4169-9324

Funding

European Research Council ERC STG 307494
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is an increasing demand for computing the relevant structures, equilibria, and long-timescale kinetics of biomolecular processes, such as protein-drug binding, from high-throughput molecular dynamics simulations. Current methods employ transformation of simulated coordinates into structural features, dimension reduction, clustering the dimension-reduced data, and estimation of a Markov state model or related model of the interconversion rates between molecular structures. This handcrafted approach demands a substantial amount of modeling expertise, as poor decisions at any step will lead to large modeling errors. Here we employ the variational approach for Markov processes (VAMP) to develop a deep learning framework for molecular kinetics using neural networks, dubbed VAMPnets. A VAMPnet encodes the entire mapping from molecular coordinates to Markov states, thus combining the whole data processing pipeline in a single end-to-end framework. Our method performs equally or better than state-of-the-art Markov modeling methods and provides easily interpretable few-state kinetic models.

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AlgorithmsMachine LearningMarkov ChainsMolecular Dynamics SimulationNeural Networks, ComputerKineticsProtein BindingProtein Folding

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PMID29295994
PMCPMC5750224

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