Journal of chemical theory and computation
Mar 13, 2025
Protein evolution has shaped enzymes that maintain stability and function across diverse thermal environments. While sequence variation, thermal stability and conformational dynamics are known to influence an enzyme's thermal adaptation, how these fa...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Feb 6, 2025
Graph neural network (GNN) architectures have emerged as promising force field models, exhibiting high accuracy in predicting complex energies and forces based on atomic identities and Cartesian coordinates. To expand the applicability of GNNs, and m...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 30, 2025
Despite its importance in understanding biology and computer-aided drug discovery, the accurate prediction of protein ionization states remains a formidable challenge. Physics-based approaches struggle to capture the small, competing contributions in...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 15, 2025
Integrating machine learning potentials (MLPs) with quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) free energy simulations has emerged as a powerful approach for studying enzymatic catalysis. However, its practical application has been hindered by t...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 13, 2025
Accurate structural feature characterization of cyclic peptides (CPs), especially those with less than 10 residues and -peptide bonds, is challenging but important for the rational design of bioactive peptides. In this study, we performed high-temper...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 3, 2025
The development of machine-learning (ML) potentials offers significant accuracy improvements compared to molecular mechanics (MM) because of the inclusion of quantum-mechanical effects in molecular interactions. However, ML simulations are several ti...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Dec 20, 2024
Enzyme-substrate interactions are essential to both biological processes and industrial applications. Advanced machine learning techniques have significantly accelerated biocatalysis research, revolutionizing the prediction of biocatalytic activities...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Dec 19, 2024
Helices are important secondary structural motifs within proteins and are pivotal in numerous physiological processes. While amino acids (AA) such as alanine and leucine are known to promote helix formation, proline and glycine disfavor it. Helical s...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Dec 19, 2024
We present flow matching for reaction coordinates (FMRC), a novel deep learning algorithm designed to identify optimal reaction coordinates (RC) in biomolecular reversible dynamics. FMRC is based on the mathematical principles of lumpability and deco...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Nov 26, 2024
The weighted ensemble (WE) method stands out as a widely used segment-based sampling technique renowned for its rigorous treatment of kinetics. The WE framework typically involves initially mapping the configuration space onto a low-dimensional colle...