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ArticleJournal of chemical theory and computation2020

An Information-Theory-Based Approach for Optimal Model Reduction of Biomolecules.

Marco Giulini, Roberto Menichetti, M Scott Shell, Raffaello Potestio

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Article in Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Bridging Scales: Coarse-Grained Protein Models in Computational Biology.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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  6. A FAIR-Compliant Management Solution for Molecular Simulation Trajectories.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2025
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  8. Modeling Protein-Glycan Interactions with HADDOCK.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2024
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  11. OpenMSCG: A Software Tool for Bottom-Up Coarse-Graining.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2023
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  14. Bottom-up Coarse-Graining: Principles and Perspectives.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2022
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  16. "Dividing and Conquering" and "Caching" in Molecular Modeling.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Marco GiuliniPhysics Department, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Trento, Italy.
Roberto MenichettiPhysics Department, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Trento, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5961-6438
M Scott ShellDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0439-1534
Raffaello PotestioPhysics Department, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Trento, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6408-9380

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In theoretical modeling of a physical system, a crucial step consists of the identification of those degrees of freedom that enable a synthetic yet informative representation of it. While in some cases this selection can be carried out on the basis of intuition and experience, straightforward discrimination of the important features from the negligible ones is difficult for many complex systems, most notably heteropolymers and large biomolecules. We here present a thermodynamics-based theoretical framework to gauge the effectiveness of a given simplified representation by measuring its information content. We employ this method to identify those reduced descriptions of proteins, in terms of a subset of their atoms, that retain the largest amount of information from the original model; we show that these highly informative representations share common features that are intrinsically related to the biological properties of the proteins under examination, thereby establishing a bridge between protein structure, energetics, and function.

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PMID33108737
PMCPMC7659038

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