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ArticleCommunications chemistry2020

Data-driven analysis of the number of Lennard-Jones types needed in a force field.

Michael Schauperl, Sophie Kantonen, Lee-Ping Wang, Michael K Gilson

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Article in Communications chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Michael SchauperlSkaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC0751, University of California, San Diego, California 92093-0751, USA.
Sophie KantonenSkaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC0751, University of California, San Diego, California 92093-0751, USA.
Lee-Ping WangDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.
Michael K GilsonSkaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC0751, University of California, San Diego, California 92093-0751, USA.

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THEORY AND MODELING OF NONCOVALENT BINDINGR01GM061300 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MD BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE · PI GILSON, MICHAEL K. · 2000 to 2021
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Austrian Science Fund FWF J 4150NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM061300
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Abstract

Force fields used in molecular simulations contain numerical parameters, such as Lennard-Jones (LJ) parameters, which are assigned to the atoms in a molecule based on a classification of their chemical environments. The number of classes, or types, should be no more than needed to maximize agreement with experiment, as parsimony avoids overfitting and simplifies parameter optimization. However, types have historically been crafted based largely on chemical intuition, so current force fields may contain more types than needed. In this study, we seek the minimum number of LJ parameter types needed to represent key properties of organic liquids. We find that highly competitive force field accuracy is obtained with minimalist sets of LJ types; e.g. two H types and one type apiece for C, O, and N atoms. We also find that the fitness surface has multiple minima, which can lead to local trapping of the optimizer.

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PMID34295996
PMCPMC8294475

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