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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2023

LPATH: A Semiautomated Python Tool for Clustering Molecular Pathways.

Anthony T Bogetti, Jeremy M G Leung, Lillian T Chong

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Anthony T BogettiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0610-2879
Jeremy M G LeungDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7021-4619
Lillian T ChongDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0590-483X

Funding

WESTPA: A high-performance framework for simulating at the frontiers of biologyR01GM115805 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI LILLIAN T CHONG · 2015 to 2026
$4.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM115805
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pathways by which a molecular process transitions to a target state are highly sought-after as direct views of a transition mechanism. While great strides have been made in the physics-based simulation of such pathways, the analysis of these pathways can be a major challenge due to their diversity and variable lengths. Here, we present the LPATH Python tool, which implements a semiautomated method for linguistics-assisted clustering of pathways into distinct classes (or routes). This method involves three steps: 1) discretizing the configurational space into key states, 2) extracting a text-string sequence of key visited states for each pathway, and 3) pairwise matching of pathways based on a text-string similarity score. To circumvent the prohibitive memory requirements of the first step, we have implemented a general two-stage method for clustering conformational states that exploits machine learning. LPATH is primarily designed for use with the WESTPA software for weighted ensemble simulations; however, the tool can also be applied to conventional simulations. As demonstrated for the C7

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