FFLUX: Transferability of polarizable machine-learned electrostatics in peptide chains.

Journal: Journal of computational chemistry
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Abstract

The fully polarizable, multipolar, and atomistic force field protein FFLUX is being built from machine learning (i.e., kriging) models, each of which predicts an atomic property. Each atom of a given protein geometry needs to be assigned such a kriging model. Such a knowledgeable atom needs to be informed about a sufficiently large environment around it. The resulting complexity can be tackled by collecting the 20 natural amino acids into a few groups. Using substituted deca-alanines, we present the proof-of-concept that a given atom's charge can be modeled by a few kriging models only. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Authors

  • Timothy L Fletcher
    Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) , 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, Great Britain.
  • Paul L A Popelier
    Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) , 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, Great Britain.