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ArticleJournal of computational biophysics and chemistry2023

Assessments of Variational Autoencoder in Protein Conformation Exploration.

Sian Xiao, Zilin Song, Hao Tian, Peng Tao

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Article in Journal of computational biophysics and chemistry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  2. Asymmetric Dynamics Between the Protomers of the σ2 Receptor Homodimer.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2025
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  4. LAST: Latent Space-Assisted Adaptive Sampling for Protein Trajectories.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2023
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Sian XiaoDepartment of Chemistry, Center for Research Computing, Center for Drug Discovery, Design, and Delivery (CD4), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75205, United States.
Zilin SongDepartment of Chemistry, Center for Research Computing, Center for Drug Discovery, Design, and Delivery (CD4), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75205, United States.
Hao TianDepartment of Chemistry, Center for Research Computing, Center for Drug Discovery, Design, and Delivery (CD4), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75205, United States.
Peng TaoDepartment of Chemistry, Center for Research Computing, Center for Drug Discovery, Design, and Delivery (CD4), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75205, United States.

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
NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM122013
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been extensively used to study protein dynamics and subsequently functions. However, MD simulations are often insufficient to explore adequate conformational space for protein functions within reachable timescales. Accordingly, many enhanced sampling methods, including variational autoencoder (VAE) based methods, have been developed to address this issue. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of using VAE to assist in the exploration of protein conformational landscapes. Using three modeling systems, we showed that VAE could capture high-level hidden information which distinguishes protein conformations. These models could also be used to generate new physically plausible protein conformations for direct sampling in favorable conformational spaces. We also found that VAE worked better in interpolation than extrapolation and increasing latent space dimension could lead to a trade-off between performances and complexities.

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Deep learningEnhanced samplingMolecular dynamicsProtein conformationsVariational autoencoder

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PMID38826699
PMCPMC11138204

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