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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

From data to noise to data for mixing physics across temperatures with generative artificial intelligence.

Yihang Wang, Lukas Herron, Pratyush Tiwary

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. 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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23citing papers in PubMed
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yihang WangBiophysics Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
Lukas HerronBiophysics Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
Pratyush TiwaryInstitute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
University of Maryland, College Park · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Using simulations or experiments performed at some set of temperatures to learn about the physics or chemistry at some other arbitrary temperature is a problem of immense practical and theoretical relevance. Here we develop a framework based on statistical mechanics and generative artificial intelligence that allows solving this problem. Specifically, we work with denoising diffusion probabilistic models and show how these models in combination with replica exchange molecular dynamics achieve superior sampling of the biomolecular energy landscape at temperatures that were never simulated without assuming any particular slow degrees of freedom. The key idea is to treat the temperature as a fluctuating random variable and not a control parameter as is usually done. This allows us to directly sample from the joint probability distribution in configuration and temperature space. The results here are demonstrated for a chirally symmetric peptide and single-strand RNA undergoing conformational transitions in all-atom water. We demonstrate how we can discover transition states and metastable states that were previously unseen at the temperature of interest and even bypass the need to perform further simulations for a wide range of temperatures. At the same time, any unphysical states are easily identifiable through very low Boltzmann weights. The procedure while shown here for a class of molecular simulations should be more generally applicable to mixing information across simulations and experiments with varying control parameters.

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Artificial IntelligenceMolecular Dynamics SimulationPeptidesRNATemperaturePhysicsPeptidesRNAenhanced samplinggenerative artificial intelligencemolecular simulations

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PMID35925885
PMCPMC9371742
OpenAlexW4287076985

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