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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. B2025

More Sophisticated Is Not Always Better: A Comparison of Similarity Measures for Unsupervised Learning of Pathways in Biomolecular Simulations.

Miriam Jäger, Steffen Wolf

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Miriam JägerBiomolecular Dynamics, Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79104, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5983-5497
Steffen WolfBiomolecular Dynamics, Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79104, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1752-6175

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Abstract

Finding process pathways in molecular simulations such as the unbinding paths of small molecule ligands from their binding sites at protein targets in a set of trajectories via unsupervised learning approaches requires the definition of a suitable similarity measure between trajectories. Here, we evaluate the performance of four such measures with varying degree of sophistication, i.e., Euclidean and Wasserstein distances, Procrustes analysis, and dynamic time warping, when analyzing trajectory data from two different biased simulation driving protocols in the form of constant velocity constraint targeted MD and steered MD. In a streptavidin-biotin benchmark system with known ground truth clusters, Wasserstein distances yielded the best clustering performance, closely followed by Euclidean distances, both being the most computationally efficient similarity measures. In a more complex A

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationBinding SitesBiotinLigandsStreptavidinUnsupervised Machine LearningBiotinLigandsStreptavidin

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