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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2023

Machine learned coarse-grained protein force-fields: Are we there yet?

Aleksander E P Durumeric, Nicholas E Charron, Clark Templeton, Félix Musil, Klara Bonneau, Aldo S Pasos-Trejo, Yaoyi Chen, Atharva Kelkar, Frank Noé, Cecilia Clementi

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Mapping Still Matters: Coarse-Graining with Machine Learning Potentials.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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  12. Generation of protein dynamics by machine learning.Current opinion in structural biology · 2025
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  14. Deep learning-guided design of dynamic proteins.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025
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  16. Scaling Graph Neural Networks to Large Proteins.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2025
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  20. Embracing exascale computing in nucleic acid simulations.Current opinion in structural biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Aleksander E P DurumericDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
Nicholas E CharronDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, 77005, Texas, USA; Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany; Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, 77005, Texas, USA.
Clark TempletonDepartment of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/pbrun03.
Félix MusilDepartment of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/FelixMusil.
Klara BonneauDepartment of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
Aldo S Pasos-TrejoDepartment of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/sayeg84.
Yaoyi ChenDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/hello_yaoyi.
Atharva KelkarDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
Frank NoéMicrosoft Research AI4Science, Karl-Liebknecht Str. 32, Berlin, 10178, Berlin, Germany; Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany; Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany; Department of Chemistry, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, 77005, Texas, USA. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/FrankNoeBerlin.
Cecilia ClementiDepartment of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195, Berlin, Germany; Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, 77005, Texas, USA; Department of Chemistry, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, 77005, Texas, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, 77005, Texas, USA. Electronic address: c.clementi@fu-berlin.de.

Funding

TRAINING PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINET15LM007093 · NLM · RICE UNIVERSITY · PI Lydia E. Kavraki · 1992 to 2026
$20.8M
NLM NIH HHS T15 LM007093
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The successful recent application of machine learning methods to scientific problems includes the learning of flexible and accurate atomic-level force-fields for materials and biomolecules from quantum chemical data. In parallel, the machine learning of force-fields at coarser resolutions is rapidly gaining relevance as an efficient way to represent the higher-body interactions needed in coarse-grained force-fields to compensate for the omitted degrees of freedom. Coarse-grained models are important for the study of systems at time and length scales exceeding those of atomistic simulations. However, the development of transferable coarse-grained models via machine learning still presents significant challenges. Here, we discuss recent developments in this field and current efforts to address the remaining challenges.

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PMID36731338
PMCPMC10023382

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