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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. B2021

UMAP as a Dimensionality Reduction Tool for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Biomacromolecules: A Comparison Study.

Francesco Trozzi, Xinlei Wang, Peng Tao

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry. B, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Francesco TrozziDepartment of Chemistry, Center for Research Computing, Center for Drug Discovery, Design, and Delivery (CD4), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5538-9189
Xinlei WangDepartment of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, United States.
Peng TaoDepartment of Chemistry, Center for Research Computing, Center for Drug Discovery, Design, and Delivery (CD4), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2488-0239
Southern Methodist University · US

Funding

Probing Hidden Conformational Space and Dynamical States of Circadian Clock Proteins through Rigid Residue Scan and Machine LearningR15GM122013 · NIGMS · SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY · PI TAO, PENG · 2018 to 2023
$800k
Normalizing Gene Expression Data from Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded SamplesR15GM131390 · NIGMS · SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY · PI WANG, XINLEI · 2019 to 2019
$432k
NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM122013NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM131390
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proteins are the molecular machines of life. The multitude of possible conformations that proteins can adopt determines their free-energy landscapes. However, the inherently high dimensionality of a protein free-energy landscape poses a challenge to deciphering how proteins perform their functions. For this reason, dimensionality reduction is an active field of research for molecular biologists. The uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) is a dimensionality reduction method based on a fuzzy topological analysis of data. In the present study, the performance of UMAP is compared with that of other popular dimensionality reduction methods such as t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE), principal component analysis (PCA), and time-structure independent components analysis (tICA) in the context of analyzing molecular dynamics simulations of the circadian clock protein VIVID. A good dimensionality reduction method should accurately represent the data structure on the projected components. The comparison of the raw high-dimensional data with the projections obtained using different dimensionality reduction methods based on various metrics showed that UMAP has superior performance when compared with linear reduction methods (PCA and tICA) and has competitive performance and scalable computational cost.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationPrincipal Component Analysis

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PMID33973773
PMCPMC8356557
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