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ArticleACS central science2019

Machine Learning of Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Force Fields.

Jiang Wang, Simon Olsson, Christoph Wehmeyer, Adrià Pérez, Nicholas E Charron, Gianni de Fabritiis, Frank Noé, Cecilia Clementi

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Article in ACS central science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 156 papers.

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8 authors.

Jiang WangCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States.
Simon OlssonDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Christoph WehmeyerDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Adrià PérezComputational Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, PRBB, C/Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
Nicholas E CharronCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States.
Gianni de FabritiisComputational Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, PRBB, C/Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
Frank NoéCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States.
Cecilia ClementiCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atomistic or ab initio molecular dynamics simulations are widely used to predict thermodynamics and kinetics and relate them to molecular structure. A common approach to go beyond the time- and length-scales accessible with such computationally expensive simulations is the definition of coarse-grained molecular models. Existing coarse-graining approaches define an effective interaction potential to match defined properties of high-resolution models or experimental data. In this paper, we reformulate coarse-graining as a supervised machine learning problem. We use statistical learning theory to decompose the coarse-graining error and cross-validation to select and compare the performance of different models. We introduce CGnets, a deep learning approach, that learns coarse-grained free energy functions and can be trained by a force-matching scheme. CGnets maintain all physically relevant invariances and allow one to incorporate prior physics knowledge to avoid sampling of unphysical structures. We show that CGnets can capture all-atom explicit-solvent free energy surfaces with models using only a few coarse-grained beads and no solvent, while classical coarse-graining methods fail to capture crucial features of the free energy surface. Thus, CGnets are able to capture multibody terms that emerge from the dimensionality reduction.

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PMID31139712
PMCPMC6535777

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