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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2025

SHINE: Deterministic Many-to-Many Clustering of Molecular Pathways.

Lexin Chen, Jeremy M G Leung, Krisztina Zsigmond, Lillian T Chong, Ramón Alain Miranda-Quintana

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Pathway representationDigital discovery · 2026
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  7. clusttraj: A Solvent-Informed Clustering Tool for Molecular Modeling.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2025
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  8. Weighted Ensemble Simulation: Advances in methods, software, and applications.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Computational molecular science
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Lexin ChenDepartment of Chemistry and Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32603, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9528-942X
Jeremy M G LeungDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7021-4619
Krisztina ZsigmondDepartment of Chemistry and Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32603, United States.
Lillian T ChongDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0590-483X
Ramón Alain Miranda-QuintanaDepartment of Chemistry and Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32603, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2121-4449

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
Regulation of Microtubule DynamicsR01GM115185 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHANG, FRED · 2015 to 2018
$1.6M
Tackling Big Data problems in biomedical sciences with extended similarity methodsR35GM150620 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI Ramon Alain Miranda Quintana · 2023 to 2026
$1.4M
Catalytic Asymmetric Reductive Coupling Reactions to Prepare Bioactive MoleculesR01GM111805 · NIGMS · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI REISMAN, SARAH ELIZABETH · 2014 to 2015
$586k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM111805NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM115185NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM115805NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM150620
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

State-of-the-art molecular dynamics (MD) simulation methods can generate diverse ensembles of pathways for complex biological processes. Analyzing these pathways using statistical mechanics tools demands identifying key states that contribute to both the dynamic and equilibrium properties of the system. This task becomes especially challenging when analyzing multiple MD simulations simultaneously, a common scenario in enhanced sampling techniques like the weighted ensemble strategy. Here, we present a new module of the MDANCE package designed to streamline the analysis of pathway ensembles. This module integrates n-ary similarity, cheminformatics-inspired tools, and hierarchical clustering to improve analysis efficiency. We present the theoretical foundation behind this approach, termed Sampling Hierarchical Intrinsic N-ary Ensembles (SHINE), and demonstrate its application to simulations of alanine dipeptide and adenylate kinase.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationAdenylate KinaseCluster AnalysisDipeptidesAdenylate KinasealanylalanineDipeptides

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PMID40326720
PMCPMC12107702

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