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Giulini M, Fiorentini R, Tubiana L, Potestio R, Menichetti R. EXCOGITO, an Extensible Coarse-Graining Toolbox for the Investigation of Biomolecules by Means of Low-Resolution Representations. J Chem Inf Model 2024; 64:4912-4927. [PMID: 38860513 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.4c00490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2024]
Abstract
Bottom-up coarse-grained (CG) models proved to be essential to complement and sometimes even replace all-atom representations of soft matter systems and biological macromolecules. The development of low-resolution models takes the moves from the reduction of the degrees of freedom employed, that is, the definition of a mapping between a system's high-resolution description and its simplified counterpart. Even in the absence of an explicit parametrization and simulation of a CG model, the observation of the atomistic system in simpler terms can be informative: this idea is leveraged by the mapping entropy, a measure of the information loss inherent to the process of coarsening. Mapping entropy lies at the heart of the extensible coarse-graining toolbox, EXCOGITO, developed to perform a number of operations and analyses on molecular systems pivoting around the properties of mappings. EXCOGITO can process an all-atom trajectory to compute the mapping entropy, identify the mapping that minimizes it, and establish quantitative relations between a low-resolution representation and the geometrical, structural, and energetic features of the system. Here, the software, which is available free of charge under an open-source license, is presented and showcased to introduce potential users to its capabilities and usage.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marco Giulini
- Physics Department, University of Trento, Via Sommarive, 14, Trento I-38123, Italy
- INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento I-38123, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Via Sommarive, 14, Trento I-38123, Italy
- INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento I-38123, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Via Sommarive, 14, Trento I-38123, Italy
- INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento I-38123, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Via Sommarive, 14, Trento I-38123, Italy
- INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento I-38123, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Via Sommarive, 14, Trento I-38123, Italy
- INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento I-38123, Italy
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Lesniewski MC, Noid WG. Insight into the Density-Dependence of Pair Potentials for Predictive Coarse-Grained Models. J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:1298-1316. [PMID: 38271676 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c06890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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We investigate the temperature- and density-dependence of effective pair potentials for 1-site coarse-grained (CG) models of two industrial solvents, 1,4-dioxane and tetrahydrofuran. We observe that the calculated pair potentials are much more sensitive to density than to temperature. The generalized-Yvon-Born-Green framework reveals that this striking density-dependence reflects corresponding variations in the many-body correlations that determine the environment-mediated indirect contribution to the pair mean force. Moreover, we demonstrate, perhaps surprisingly, that this density-dependence is not important for accurately modeling the intermolecular structure. Accordingly, we adopt a density-independent interaction potential and transfer the density-dependence of the calculated pair potentials into a configuration-independent volume potential. Furthermore, we develop a single global potential that accurately models the intermolecular structure and pressure-volume equation of state across a very wide range of liquid state points. Consequently, this work provides fundamental insight into the density-dependence of effective pair potentials and also provides a significant step toward developing predictive CG models for efficiently modeling industrial solvents.
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- Maria C Lesniewski
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Kidder KM, Shell MS, Noid WG. Surveying the energy landscape of coarse-grained mappings. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:054105. [PMID: 38310476 DOI: 10.1063/5.0182524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/28/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2024] Open
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Simulations of soft materials often adopt low-resolution coarse-grained (CG) models. However, the CG representation is not unique and its impact upon simulated properties is poorly understood. In this work, we investigate the space of CG representations for ubiquitin, which is a typical globular protein with 72 amino acids. We employ Monte Carlo methods to ergodically sample this space and to characterize its landscape. By adopting the Gaussian network model as an analytically tractable atomistic model for equilibrium fluctuations, we exactly assess the intrinsic quality of each CG representation without introducing any approximations in sampling configurations or in modeling interactions. We focus on two metrics, the spectral quality and the information content, that quantify the extent to which the CG representation preserves low-frequency, large-amplitude motions and configurational information, respectively. The spectral quality and information content are weakly correlated among high-resolution representations but become strongly anticorrelated among low-resolution representations. Representations with maximal spectral quality appear consistent with physical intuition, while low-resolution representations with maximal information content do not. Interestingly, quenching studies indicate that the energy landscape of mapping space is very smooth and highly connected. Moreover, our study suggests a critical resolution below which a "phase transition" qualitatively distinguishes good and bad representations.
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- Katherine M Kidder
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Jin J, Hwang J, Voth GA. Gaussian representation of coarse-grained interactions of liquids: Theory, parametrization, and transferability. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:184105. [PMID: 37942867 DOI: 10.1063/5.0160567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/06/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023] Open
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Coarse-grained (CG) interactions determined via bottom-up methodologies can faithfully reproduce the structural correlations observed in fine-grained (atomistic resolution) systems, yet they can suffer from limited extensibility due to complex many-body correlations. As part of an ongoing effort to understand and improve the applicability of bottom-up CG models, we propose an alternative approach to address both accuracy and transferability. Our main idea draws from classical perturbation theory to partition the hard sphere repulsive term from effective CG interactions. We then introduce Gaussian basis functions corresponding to the system's characteristic length by linking these Gaussian sub-interactions to the local particle densities at each coordination shell. The remaining perturbative long-range interaction can be treated as a collective solvation interaction, which we show exhibits a Gaussian form derived from integral equation theories. By applying this numerical parametrization protocol to CG liquid systems, our microscopic theory elucidates the emergence of Gaussian interactions in common phenomenological CG models. To facilitate transferability for these reduced descriptions, we further infer equations of state to determine the sub-interaction parameter as a function of the system variables. The reduced models exhibit excellent transferability across the thermodynamic state points. Furthermore, we propose a new strategy to design the cross-interactions between distinct CG sites in liquid mixtures. This involves combining each Gaussian in the proper radial domain, yielding accurate CG potentials of mean force and structural correlations for multi-component systems. Overall, our findings establish a solid foundation for constructing transferable bottom-up CG models of liquids with enhanced extensibility.
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- Jaehyeok Jin
- Department of Chemistry, Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, 5735 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago, 5747 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, 5735 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Krämer A, Durumeric AEP, Charron NE, Chen Y, Clementi C, Noé F. Statistically Optimal Force Aggregation for Coarse-Graining Molecular Dynamics. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:3970-3979. [PMID: 37079800 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Machine-learned coarse-grained (CG) models have the potential for simulating large molecular complexes beyond what is possible with atomistic molecular dynamics. However, training accurate CG models remains a challenge. A widely used methodology for learning bottom-up CG force fields maps forces from all-atom molecular dynamics to the CG representation and matches them with a CG force field on average. We show that there is flexibility in how to map all-atom forces to the CG representation and that the most commonly used mapping methods are statistically inefficient and potentially even incorrect in the presence of constraints in the all-atom simulation. We define an optimization statement for force mappings and demonstrate that substantially improved CG force fields can be learned from the same simulation data when using optimized force maps. The method is demonstrated on the miniproteins chignolin and tryptophan cage and published as open-source code.
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- Andreas Krämer
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251, United States
- Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School for Biology and Computation (IMPRS-BAC), Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251, United States
- Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Microsoft Research AI4Science, Karl-Liebknecht Straße 32, 10178 Berlin, Germany
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Yang W, Templeton C, Rosenberger D, Bittracher A, Nüske F, Noé F, Clementi C. Slicing and Dicing: Optimal Coarse-Grained Representation to Preserve Molecular Kinetics. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2023; 9:186-196. [PMID: 36844497 PMCID: PMC9951291 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.2c01200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The aim of molecular coarse-graining approaches is to recover relevant physical properties of the molecular system via a lower-resolution model that can be more efficiently simulated. Ideally, the lower resolution still accounts for the degrees of freedom necessary to recover the correct physical behavior. The selection of these degrees of freedom has often relied on the scientist's chemical and physical intuition. In this article, we make the argument that in soft matter contexts desirable coarse-grained models accurately reproduce the long-time dynamics of a system by correctly capturing the rare-event transitions. We propose a bottom-up coarse-graining scheme that correctly preserves the relevant slow degrees of freedom, and we test this idea for three systems of increasing complexity. We show that in contrast to this method existing coarse-graining schemes such as those from information theory or structure-based approaches are not able to recapitulate the slow time scales of the system.
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- Wangfei Yang
- Center
for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice
University, Houston, Texas77005, United States
- Graduate
Program in Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas77005, United States
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- Department
of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie
Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195Berlin, Germany
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- Max
Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Sandtorstrasse 1, 39106Magdeburg, Germany
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- Center
for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice
University, Houston, Texas77005, United States
- Department
of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie
Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas77005, United States
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- Center
for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice
University, Houston, Texas77005, United States
- Department
of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 12, 14195Berlin, Germany
- Department
of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas77005, United States
- Department
of Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas77005, United States
- E-mail:
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Jin J, Pak AJ, Durumeric AEP, Loose TD, Voth GA. Bottom-up Coarse-Graining: Principles and Perspectives. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:5759-5791. [PMID: 36070494 PMCID: PMC9558379 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Large-scale computational molecular models provide scientists a means to investigate the effect of microscopic details on emergent mesoscopic behavior. Elucidating the relationship between variations on the molecular scale and macroscopic observable properties facilitates an understanding of the molecular interactions driving the properties of real world materials and complex systems (e.g., those found in biology, chemistry, and materials science). As a result, discovering an explicit, systematic connection between microscopic nature and emergent mesoscopic behavior is a fundamental goal for this type of investigation. The molecular forces critical to driving the behavior of complex heterogeneous systems are often unclear. More problematically, simulations of representative model systems are often prohibitively expensive from both spatial and temporal perspectives, impeding straightforward investigations over possible hypotheses characterizing molecular behavior. While the reduction in resolution of a study, such as moving from an atomistic simulation to that of the resolution of large coarse-grained (CG) groups of atoms, can partially ameliorate the cost of individual simulations, the relationship between the proposed microscopic details and this intermediate resolution is nontrivial and presents new obstacles to study. Small portions of these complex systems can be realistically simulated. Alone, these smaller simulations likely do not provide insight into collectively emergent behavior. However, by proposing that the driving forces in both smaller and larger systems (containing many related copies of the smaller system) have an explicit connection, systematic bottom-up CG techniques can be used to transfer CG hypotheses discovered using a smaller scale system to a larger system of primary interest. The proposed connection between different CG systems is prescribed by (i) the CG representation (mapping) and (ii) the functional form and parameters used to represent the CG energetics, which approximate potentials of mean force (PMFs). As a result, the design of CG methods that facilitate a variety of physically relevant representations, approximations, and force fields is critical to moving the frontier of systematic CG forward. Crucially, the proposed connection between the system used for parametrization and the system of interest is orthogonal to the optimization used to approximate the potential of mean force present in all systematic CG methods. The empirical efficacy of machine learning techniques on a variety of tasks provides strong motivation to consider these approaches for approximating the PMF and analyzing these approximations.
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- Jaehyeok Jin
- Department of Chemistry,
Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical
Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry,
Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical
Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry,
Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical
Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry,
Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical
Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry,
Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical
Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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Kanekal KH, Rudzinski JF, Bereau T. Broad chemical transferability in structure-based coarse-graining. J Chem Phys 2022; 157:104102. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0104914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Compared to top-down coarse-grained (CG) models, bottom-up approaches are capable of offering higher structural fidelity. This fidelity results from the tight link to a higher-resolution reference, making the CG model chemically specific. Unfortunately, chemical specificity can be at odds with compound-screening strategies, which call for transferable parametrizations. Here we present an approach to reconcile bottom-up, structure-preserving CG models with chemical transferability. We consider the bottom-up CG parametrization of 3,441 C7O2 small-molecule isomers. Our approach combines atomic representations, unsupervised learning, and a large-scale extended-ensemble force-matching parametrization. We first identify a subset of 19 representative molecules, which maximally encode the local environment of all gas-phase conformers. Reference interactions between the 19 representative molecules were obtained from both homogeneous bulk liquids and various binary mixtures. An extended-ensemble parametrization over all 703 state points leads to a CG model that is both structure-based and chemically transferable. Remarkably, the resulting force field is on average more structurally accurate than single-state-point equivalents. Averaging over the extended ensemble acts as a mean-force regularizer, smoothing out both force and structural correlations that are overly specific to a single state point. Our approach aims at transferability through a set of CG bead types that can be used to easily construct new molecules, while retaining the benefits of a structure-based parametrization.
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- Kiran H. Kanekal
- AK Kremer - Theory Group, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
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- Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences and Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Zhang Y, Wang Y, Xia F, Cao Z, Xu X. Accurate and Efficient Estimation of Lennard-Jones Interactions for Coarse-Grained Particles via a Potential Matching Method. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:4879-4890. [PMID: 35838523 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The Lennard-Jones (LJ) energy functions are commonly used to describe the nonbonded interactions in bulk coarse-grained (CG) models, which contribute significantly to the stabilization of a local binding configuration or a self-assembly system. In many cases, systematic development of the LJ interaction parameters in a CG model requires a comprehensive sampling of the objective molecules at the all-atom (AA) level, which is therefore extremely time-consuming for large systems. Inspired by the concept of electrostatic potential (ESP), we define the LJ static potential (LJSP), by which the embedding potential energy surface can be constructed analytically. A semianalytic approach, namely, the LJSP matching method, is developed here to derive the CG parameters by minimizing the LJSP difference between the AA and the CG models, which provides a universal way to derive the CG LJ parameters from the AA models without doing presampling. The LJSP matching method is successful not only in deriving the LJ interaction energy landscape in the CG models for proteins, lipids, and DNA but also in reproducing the critical properties such as intermediate structures and enthalpy contributions as exemplified in simulating the self-assembly process of the dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) lipids.
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- Yuwei Zhang
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, MOE Key Laboratory of Computational Physical Sciences, Departments of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- LSEC, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemistry Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, MOE Key Laboratory of Computational Physical Sciences, Departments of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Potter T, Barrett EL, Miller MA. Automated Coarse-Grained Mapping Algorithm for the Martini Force Field and Benchmarks for Membrane-Water Partitioning. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:5777-5791. [PMID: 34472843 PMCID: PMC8444346 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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With a view to high-throughput simulations, we present an automated system for mapping and parameterizing organic molecules for use with the coarse-grained Martini force field. The method scales to larger molecules and a broader chemical space than existing schemes. The core of the mapping process is a graph-based analysis of the molecule's bonding network, which has the advantages of being fast, general, and preserving symmetry. The parameterization process pays special attention to coarse-grained beads in aromatic rings. It also includes a method for building efficient and stable frameworks of constraints for molecules with structural rigidity. The performance of the method is tested on a diverse set of 87 neutral organic molecules and the ability of the resulting models to capture octanol-water and membrane-water partition coefficients. In the latter case, we introduce an adaptive method for extracting partition coefficients from free-energy profiles to take into account the interfacial region of the membrane. We also use the models to probe the response of membrane-water partitioning to the cholesterol content of the membrane.
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- Thomas
D. Potter
- Department
of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, United
Kingdom
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- Unilever
Safety and Environmental Assurance Centre, Colworth Science Park, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire MK44 1LQ, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, United
Kingdom
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Giulini M, Rigoli M, Mattiotti G, Menichetti R, Tarenzi T, Fiorentini R, Potestio R. From System Modeling to System Analysis: The Impact of Resolution Level and Resolution Distribution in the Computer-Aided Investigation of Biomolecules. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:676976. [PMID: 34164432 PMCID: PMC8215203 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.676976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2021] [Accepted: 05/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
The ever increasing computer power, together with the improved accuracy of atomistic force fields, enables researchers to investigate biological systems at the molecular level with remarkable detail. However, the relevant length and time scales of many processes of interest are still hardly within reach even for state-of-the-art hardware, thus leaving important questions often unanswered. The computer-aided investigation of many biological physics problems thus largely benefits from the usage of coarse-grained models, that is, simplified representations of a molecule at a level of resolution that is lower than atomistic. A plethora of coarse-grained models have been developed, which differ most notably in their granularity; this latter aspect determines one of the crucial open issues in the field, i.e. the identification of an optimal degree of coarsening, which enables the greatest simplification at the expenses of the smallest information loss. In this review, we present the problem of coarse-grained modeling in biophysics from the viewpoint of system representation and information content. In particular, we discuss two distinct yet complementary aspects of protein modeling: on the one hand, the relationship between the resolution of a model and its capacity of accurately reproducing the properties of interest; on the other hand, the possibility of employing a lower resolution description of a detailed model to extract simple, useful, and intelligible information from the latter.
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- Marco Giulini
- Physics Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.,INFN-TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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Rudzinski JF, Kloth S, Wörner S, Pal T, Kremer K, Bereau T, Vogel M. Dynamical properties across different coarse-grained models for ionic liquids. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2021; 33:224001. [PMID: 33592598 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/abe6e1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) stand out among molecular liquids for their rich physicochemical characteristics, including structural and dynamic heterogeneity. The significance of electrostatic interactions in RTILs results in long characteristic length- and timescales, and has motivated the development of a number of coarse-grained (CG) simulation models. In this study, we aim to better understand the connection between certain CG parameterization strategies and the dynamical properties and transferability of the resulting models. We systematically compare five CG models: a model largely parameterized from experimental thermodynamic observables; a refinement of this model to increase its structural accuracy; and three models that reproduce a given set of structural distribution functions by construction, with varying intramolecular parameterizations and reference temperatures. All five CG models display limited structural transferability over temperature, and also result in various effective dynamical speedup factors, relative to a reference atomistic model. On the other hand, the structure-based CG models tend to result in more consistent cation-anion relative diffusion than the thermodynamic-based models, for a single thermodynamic state point. By linking short- and long-timescale dynamical behaviors, we demonstrate that the varying dynamical properties of the different CG models can be largely collapsed onto a single curve, which provides evidence for a route to constructing dynamically-consistent CG models of RTILs.
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- Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany
- Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences and Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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Jin J, Han Y, Pak AJ, Voth GA. A new one-site coarse-grained model for water: Bottom-up many-body projected water (BUMPer). I. General theory and model. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:044104. [PMID: 33514116 PMCID: PMC7826168 DOI: 10.1063/5.0026651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Water is undoubtedly one of the most important molecules for a variety of chemical and physical systems, and constructing precise yet effective coarse-grained (CG) water models has been a high priority for computer simulations. To recapitulate important local correlations in the CG water model, explicit higher-order interactions are often included. However, the advantages of coarse-graining may then be offset by the larger computational cost in the model parameterization and simulation execution. To leverage both the computational efficiency of the CG simulation and the inclusion of higher-order interactions, we propose a new statistical mechanical theory that effectively projects many-body interactions onto pairwise basis sets. The many-body projection theory presented in this work shares similar physics from liquid state theory, providing an efficient approach to account for higher-order interactions within the reduced model. We apply this theory to project the widely used Stillinger-Weber three-body interaction onto a pairwise (two-body) interaction for water. Based on the projected interaction with the correct long-range behavior, we denote the new CG water model as the Bottom-Up Many-Body Projected Water (BUMPer) model, where the resultant CG interaction corresponds to a prior model, the iteratively force-matched model. Unlike other pairwise CG models, BUMPer provides high-fidelity recapitulation of pair correlation functions and three-body distributions, as well as N-body correlation functions. BUMPer extensively improves upon the existing bottom-up CG water models by extending the accuracy and applicability of such models while maintaining a reduced computational cost.
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- Jaehyeok Jin
- Department of Chemistry, Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Empereur-Mot C, Pesce L, Doni G, Bochicchio D, Capelli R, Perego C, Pavan GM. Swarm-CG: Automatic Parametrization of Bonded Terms in MARTINI-Based Coarse-Grained Models of Simple to Complex Molecules via Fuzzy Self-Tuning Particle Swarm Optimization. ACS OMEGA 2020; 5:32823-32843. [PMID: 33376921 PMCID: PMC7758974 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c05469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 11/26/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We present Swarm-CG, a versatile software for the automatic iterative parametrization of bonded parameters in coarse-grained (CG) models, ideal in combination with popular CG force fields such as MARTINI. By coupling fuzzy self-tuning particle swarm optimization to Boltzmann inversion, Swarm-CG performs accurate bottom-up parametrization of bonded terms in CG models composed of up to 200 pseudo atoms within 4-24 h on standard desktop machines, using default settings. The software benefits from a user-friendly interface and two different usage modes (default and advanced). We particularly expect Swarm-CG to support and facilitate the development of new CG models for the study of complex molecular systems interesting for bio- and nanotechnology. Excellent performances are demonstrated using a benchmark of 9 molecules of diverse nature, structural complexity, and size. Swarm-CG is available with all its dependencies via the Python Package Index (PIP package: swarm-cg). Demonstration data are available at: www.github.com/GMPavanLab/SwarmCG.
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- Charly Empereur-Mot
- Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Galleria 2, Via Cantonale 2c, CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland
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- Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Galleria 2, Via Cantonale 2c, CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland
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- Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Galleria 2, Via Cantonale 2c, CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland
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- Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Galleria 2, Via Cantonale 2c, CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland
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- Department of Applied Science and Techology, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
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- Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Galleria 2, Via Cantonale 2c, CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland
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- Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Galleria 2, Via Cantonale 2c, CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland
- Department of Applied Science and Techology, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
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DeLyser M, Noid WG. Bottom-up coarse-grained models for external fields and interfaces. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:224103. [PMID: 33317310 DOI: 10.1063/5.0030103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Bottom-up coarse-grained (CG) models accurately describe the structure of homogeneous systems but sometimes provide limited transferability and a poor description of thermodynamic properties. Consequently, inhomogeneous systems present a severe challenge for bottom-up models. In this work, we examine bottom-up CG models for interfaces and inhomogeneous systems. We first analyze the effect of external fields upon the many-body potential of mean force. We also demonstrate that the multiscale CG (MS-CG) variational principle for modeling the external field corresponds to a generalization of the first Yvon-Born-Green equation. This provides an important connection with liquid state theory, as well as physical insight into the structure of interfaces and the resulting MS-CG models. We then develop and assess MS-CG models for a film of liquid methanol that is adsorbed on an attractive wall and in coexistence with its vapor phase. While pair-additive potentials provide unsatisfactory accuracy and transferability, the inclusion of local-density (LD) potentials dramatically improves the accuracy and transferability of the MS-CG model. The MS-CG model with LD potentials quite accurately describes the wall-liquid interface, the bulk liquid density, and the liquid-vapor interface while simultaneously providing a much improved description of the vapor phase. This model also provides an excellent description of the pair structure and pressure-density equation of state for the bulk liquid. Thus, LD potentials hold considerable promise for transferable bottom-up models that accurately describe the structure and thermodynamic properties of both bulk and interfacial systems.
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- Michael DeLyser
- Department of Chemistry, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Rudzinski JF, Bereau T. Coarse-grained conformational surface hopping: Methodology and transferability. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:214110. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0031249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany
- Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences and Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands
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Foley TT, Kidder KM, Shell MS, Noid WG. Exploring the landscape of model representations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:24061-24068. [PMID: 32929015 PMCID: PMC7533877 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2000098117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The success of any physical model critically depends upon adopting an appropriate representation for the phenomenon of interest. Unfortunately, it remains generally challenging to identify the essential degrees of freedom or, equivalently, the proper order parameters for describing complex phenomena. Here we develop a statistical physics framework for exploring and quantitatively characterizing the space of order parameters for representing physical systems. Specifically, we examine the space of low-resolution representations that correspond to particle-based coarse-grained (CG) models for a simple microscopic model of protein fluctuations. We employ Monte Carlo (MC) methods to sample this space and determine the density of states for CG representations as a function of their ability to preserve the configurational information, I, and large-scale fluctuations, Q, of the microscopic model. These two metrics are uncorrelated in high-resolution representations but become anticorrelated at lower resolutions. Moreover, our MC simulations suggest an emergent length scale for coarse-graining proteins, as well as a qualitative distinction between good and bad representations of proteins. Finally, we relate our work to recent approaches for clustering graphs and detecting communities in networks.
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- Thomas T Foley
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802;
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Honda K. A coarse-grained potential for liquid water by spherically projected hydrogen-bonding interactions. J Mol Liq 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2019.112246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Wörner SJ, Bereau T, Kremer K, Rudzinski JF. Direct route to reproducing pair distribution functions with coarse-grained models via transformed atomistic cross correlations. J Chem Phys 2020; 151:244110. [PMID: 31893905 DOI: 10.1063/1.5131105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Coarse-grained (CG) models are often parameterized to reproduce one-dimensional structural correlation functions of an atomically detailed model along the degrees of freedom governing each interaction potential. While cross correlations between these degrees of freedom inform the optimal set of interaction parameters, the correlations generated from the higher-resolution simulations are often too complex to act as an accurate proxy for the CG correlations. Instead, the most popular methods determine the interaction parameters iteratively while assuming that individual interactions are uncorrelated. While these iterative methods have been validated for a wide range of systems, they also have disadvantages when parameterizing models for multicomponent systems or when refining previously established models to better reproduce particular structural features. In this work, we propose two distinct approaches for the direct (i.e., noniterative) parameterization of a CG model by adjusting the high-resolution cross correlations of an atomistic model in order to more accurately reflect correlations that will be generated by the resulting CG model. The derived models more accurately describe the low-order structural features of the underlying AA model while necessarily generating inherently distinct cross correlations compared with the atomically detailed reference model. We demonstrate the proposed methods for a one-site-per-molecule representation of liquid water, where pairwise interactions are incapable of reproducing the true tetrahedral solvation structure. We then investigate the precise role that distinct cross-correlation features play in determining the correct pair correlation functions, evaluating the importance of the placement of correlation features as well as the balance between features appearing in different solvation shells.
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- Svenja J Wörner
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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Chakraborty M, Xu J, White AD. Is preservation of symmetry necessary for coarse-graining? Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:14998-15005. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp02309d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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This work investigates if preserving the symmetry of the underlying molecular graph of a given molecule when choosing a coarse-grained (CG) mapping significantly affects the CG model accuracy.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- University of Rochester
- Rochester
- USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- University of Rochester
- Rochester
- USA
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Lebold KM, Noid WG. Dual-potential approach for coarse-grained implicit solvent models with accurate, internally consistent energetics and predictive transferability. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:164113. [PMID: 31675902 DOI: 10.1063/1.5125246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The dual-potential approach promises coarse-grained (CG) models that accurately reproduce both structural and energetic properties, while simultaneously providing predictive estimates for the temperature-dependence of the effective CG potentials. In this work, we examine the dual-potential approach for implicit solvent CG models that reflect large entropic effects from the eliminated solvent. Specifically, we construct implicit solvent models at various resolutions, R, by retaining a fraction 0.10 ≤ R ≤ 0.95 of the molecules from a simple fluid of Lennard-Jones spheres. We consider the dual-potential approach in both the constant volume and constant pressure ensembles across a relatively wide range of temperatures. We approximate the many-body potential of mean force for the remaining solutes with pair and volume potentials, which we determine via multiscale coarse-graining and self-consistent pressure-matching, respectively. Interestingly, with increasing temperature, the pair potentials appear increasingly attractive, while the volume potentials become increasingly repulsive. The dual-potential approach not only reproduces the atomic energetics but also quite accurately predicts this temperature-dependence. We also derive an exact relationship between the thermodynamic specific heat of an atomic model and the energetic fluctuations that are observable at the CG resolution. With this generalized fluctuation relationship, the approximate CG models quite accurately reproduce the thermodynamic specific heat of the underlying atomic model.
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- Kathryn M Lebold
- Department of Chemistry, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Dannenhoffer-Lafage T, Wagner JW, Durumeric AEP, Voth GA. Compatible observable decompositions for coarse-grained representations of real molecular systems. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:134115. [PMID: 31594316 DOI: 10.1063/1.5116027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Coarse-grained (CG) observable expressions, such as pressure or potential energy, are generally different than their fine-grained (FG, e.g., atomistic) counterparts. Recently, we analyzed this so-called "representability problem" in Wagner et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 145, 044108 (2016)]. While the issue of representability was clearly and mathematically stated in that work, it was not made clear how to actually determine CG observable expressions from the underlying FG systems that can only be simulated numerically. In this work, we propose minimization targets for the CG observables of such systems. These CG observables are compatible with each other and with structural observables. Also, these CG observables are systematically improvable since they are variationally minimized. Our methods are local and data efficient because we decompose the observable contributions. Hence, our approaches are called the multiscale compatible observable decomposition (MS-CODE) and the relative entropy compatible observable decomposition (RE-CODE), which reflect two main approaches to the "bottom-up" coarse-graining of real FG systems. The parameterization of these CG observable expressions requires the introduction of new, symmetric basis sets and one-body terms. We apply MS-CODE and RE-CODE to 1-site and 2-site CG models of methanol for the case of pressure, as well as to 1-site methanol and acetonitrile models for potential energy.
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- Thomas Dannenhoffer-Lafage
- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Oprzeska-Zingrebe EA, Smiatek J. Some Notes on the Thermodynamic Accuracy of Coarse-Grained Models. Front Mol Biosci 2019; 6:87. [PMID: 31552269 PMCID: PMC6746972 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2019.00087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Accepted: 08/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Ewa Anna Oprzeska-Zingrebe
- Institute for Computational Physics, Theoretical Chemical Physics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute for Computational Physics, Theoretical Chemical Physics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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Rosenberger D, van der Vegt NFA. Relative entropy indicates an ideal concentration for structure-based coarse graining of binary mixtures. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:053308. [PMID: 31212527 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.053308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Many methodological approaches have been proposed to improve systematic or bottom-up coarse-graining techniques to enhance the representability and transferability of the derived interaction potentials. Transferability describes the ability of a coarse-grained (CG) model to be predictive, i.e., to describe a system at state points different from those chosen for parametrization. Whereas the representability characterizes the accuracy of a CG model to reproduce target properties of the underlying reference or fine-grained model at a given state point. In this article, we shift the focus away from methodological aspects and rather raise the question whether we can overcome the disadvantages of a given method in terms of representability and transferability by systematically selecting the state point at which the CG model gets parametrized. We answer this question by applying the inverse Monte Carlo (IMC) approach-a structure-based coarse-graining method-to derive effective interactions for binary mixtures of simple Lennard-Jones (LJ) particles, which are different in size. For such simple systems we indeed can identify a concentration where the derived potentials show the best performance in terms of structural representability and transferability. This specific concentration is identified by computing the relative entropy which quantifies the information loss between different IMC models and the reference LJ model at varying mixture compositions. Further, we show that an IMC model for mixtures of n-hexane and n-perfluorohexane shows the same trend in transferability as the IMC models for the LJ system. All derived models are more transferable in the direction of increasing concentration of the larger-sized compound.
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- David Rosenberger
- Eduard Zintl Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, 64287, Germany
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- Eduard Zintl Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, 64287, Germany
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The necessity for accurate and computationally efficient representations of water in atomistic simulations that can span biologically relevant timescales has born the necessity of coarse-grained (CG) modeling. Despite numerous advances, CG water models rely mostly on a-priori specified assumptions. How these assumptions affect the model accuracy, efficiency, and in particular transferability, has not been systematically investigated. Here we propose a data driven comparison and selection for CG water models through a Hierarchical Bayesian framework. We examine CG water models that differ in their level of coarse-graining, structure, and number of interaction sites. We find that the importance of electrostatic interactions for the physical system under consideration is a dominant criterion for the model selection. Multi-site models are favored, unless the effects of water in electrostatic screening are not relevant, in which case the single site model is preferred due to its computational savings. The charge distribution is found to play an important role in the multi-site model’s accuracy while the flexibility of the bonds/angles may only slightly improve the models. Furthermore, we find significant variations in the computational cost of these models. We present a data informed rationale for the selection of CG water models and provide guidance for future water model designs.
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Webb MA, Delannoy JY, de Pablo JJ. Graph-Based Approach to Systematic Molecular Coarse-Graining. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 15:1199-1208. [PMID: 30557028 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A novel methodology is introduced here to generate coarse-grained (CG) representations of molecular models for simulations. The proposed strategy relies on basic graph-theoretic principles and is referred to as graph-based coarse-graining (GBCG). It treats a given system as a molecular graph and derives a corresponding CG representation by using edge contractions to combine nodes in the graph, which correspond to atoms in the molecule, into CG sites. A key element of this methodology is that the nodes are combined according to well-defined protocols that rank-order nodes based on the underlying chemical connectivity. By iteratively performing these operations, successively coarser representations of the original atomic system can be produced to yield a systematic set of CG mappings with hierarchical resolution in an automated fashion. These capabilities are demonstrated in the context of several test systems, including toluene, pentadecane, a polysaccharide dimer, and a rhodopsin protein. In these examples, GBCG yields multiple, intuitive structures that naturally preserve the chemical topology of the system. Importantly, these representations are rendered from algorithmic implementation rather than an arbitrary ansatz, which, until now, has been the conventional approach for defining CG mapping schemes. Overall, the results presented here indicate that GBCG is efficient, robust, and unambiguous in its application, making it a valuable tool for future CG modeling.
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- Michael A Webb
- Institute for Molecular Engineering , University of Chicago , Chicago , Illinois 60637 , United States
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- Simulation, Modeling and Artificial Intelligence team , Solvay , Bristol , Pennsylvania 19007 , United States
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- Institute for Molecular Engineering , University of Chicago , Chicago , Illinois 60637 , United States.,Institute for Molecular Engineering and Materials Science Division , Argonne National Laboratory , Lemont , Illinois 60439 , United States
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Bereau T, Rudzinski JF. Accurate Structure-Based Coarse Graining Leads to Consistent Barrier-Crossing Dynamics. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 121:256002. [PMID: 30608819 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.256002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2018] [Revised: 11/09/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Structure-based coarse graining of molecular systems offers a systematic route to reproduce the many-body potential of mean force. Unfortunately, common strategies are inherently limited by the molecular mechanics force field employed. Here, we extend the concept of multisurface dynamics, initially developed to describe electronic transitions in chemical reactions, to accurately sample the conformational ensemble of a classical system in equilibrium. In analogy to describing different electronic configurations, a surface-hopping scheme couples distinct conformational basins beyond the additivity of the Hamiltonian. The incorporation of more surfaces leads systematically toward improved cross-correlations. The resulting models naturally achieve consistent long-time dynamics for systems governed by barrier-crossing events.
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- Tristan Bereau
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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Scherer C, Andrienko D. Understanding three-body contributions to coarse-grained force fields. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:22387-22394. [PMID: 30129962 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp00746b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Coarse-graining is a systematic reduction of the number of degrees of freedom used to describe a system of interest. Coarse-graining can be thought of as a projection on the coarse-grained degrees of freedom and is therefore dependent on the number and type of basis functions used to represent the coarse-grained force field. We show that many-body extensions of the coarse-grained force field can result in substantial changes of the two-body interactions, making them much more attractive at short distances. This interplay can be alleviated by first parametrizing the two-body potential and then fitting the additional three-body contribution to the residual forces. The approach is illustrated on liquid water where three-body interactions are essential to reproduce the structural properties, and liquid methanol where two-body interactions are sufficient to reproduce the main structural features of the atomistic system. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the structural and thermodynamic accuracy of the coarse-grained models can be controlled by varying the magnitude of the three-body interactions. Our findings motivate basis set extensions which separate the many-body contributions of different order.
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- Christoph Scherer
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
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Wagner JW, Dannenhoffer-Lafage T, Jin J, Voth GA. Extending the range and physical accuracy of coarse-grained models: Order parameter dependent interactions. J Chem Phys 2018; 147:044113. [PMID: 28764380 DOI: 10.1063/1.4995946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Order parameters (i.e., collective variables) are often used to describe the behavior of systems as they capture different features of the free energy surface. Yet, most coarse-grained (CG) models only employ two- or three-body non-bonded interactions between the CG particles. In situations where these interactions are insufficient for the CG model to reproduce the structural distributions of the underlying fine-grained (FG) model, additional interactions must be included. In this paper, we introduce an approach to expand the basis sets available in the multiscale coarse-graining (MS-CG) methodology by including order parameters. Then, we investigate the ability of an additive local order parameter (e.g., density) and an additive global order parameter (i.e., distance from a hard wall) to improve the description of CG models in interfacial systems. Specifically, we study methanol liquid-vapor coexistence, acetonitrile liquid-vapor coexistence, and acetonitrile liquid confined by hard-wall plates, all using single site CG models. We find that the use of order parameters dramatically improves the reproduction of structural properties of interfacial CG systems relative to the FG reference as compared with pairwise CG interactions alone.
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- Jacob W Wagner
- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Rosenberger D, van der Vegt NFA. Addressing the temperature transferability of structure based coarse graining models. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:6617-6628. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp08246k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We present a novel idea to improve the temperature transferability of structure based coarse graining models.
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- David Rosenberger
- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie
- Darmstadt
- Germany
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- Technische Universität Darmstadt, Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie
- Darmstadt
- Germany
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Dunn NJH, Lebold KM, DeLyser MR, Rudzinski JF, Noid W. BOCS: Bottom-up Open-source Coarse-graining Software. J Phys Chem B 2017; 122:3363-3377. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b09993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- Nicholas J. H. Dunn
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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John ST, Csányi G. Many-Body Coarse-Grained Interactions Using Gaussian Approximation Potentials. J Phys Chem B 2017; 121:10934-10949. [PMID: 29117675 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b09636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We introduce a computational framework that is able to describe general many-body coarse-grained (CG) interactions of molecules and use it to model the free energy surface of molecular liquids as a cluster expansion in terms of monomer, dimer, and trimer terms. The contributions to the free energy due to these terms are inferred from all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) data using Gaussian Approximation Potentials, a type of machine-learning model that employs Gaussian process regression. The resulting CG model is much more accurate than those possible using pair potentials. Though slower than the latter, our model can still be faster than all-atom simulations for solvent-free CG models commonly used in biomolecular simulations.
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- S T John
- Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.,PROWLER.io , 66-68 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1LA, United Kingdom
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- Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom
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Trovato F, Fumagalli G. Molecular simulations of cellular processes. Biophys Rev 2017; 9:941-958. [PMID: 29185136 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-017-0363-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2017] [Accepted: 11/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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It is, nowadays, possible to simulate biological processes in conditions that mimic the different cellular compartments. Several groups have performed these calculations using molecular models that vary in performance and accuracy. In many cases, the atomistic degrees of freedom have been eliminated, sacrificing both structural complexity and chemical specificity to be able to explore slow processes. In this review, we will discuss the insights gained from computer simulations on macromolecule diffusion, nuclear body formation, and processes involving the genetic material inside cell-mimicking spaces. We will also discuss the challenges to generate new models suitable for the simulations of biological processes on a cell scale and for cell-cycle-long times, including non-equilibrium events such as the co-translational folding, misfolding, and aggregation of proteins. A prominent role will be played by the wise choice of the structural simplifications and, simultaneously, of a relatively complex energetic description. These challenging tasks will rely on the integration of experimental and computational methods, achieved through the application of efficient algorithms. Graphical abstract.
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- Fabio Trovato
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 6, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
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- Nephrology and Dialysis Unit, USL Toscana Nord Ovest, 55041, Lido di Camaiore, Lucca, Italy
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Rudzinski JF, Lu K, Milner ST, Maranas JK, Noid WG. Extended Ensemble Approach to Transferable Potentials for Low-Resolution Coarse-Grained Models of Ionomers. J Chem Theory Comput 2017; 13:2185-2201. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b01160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Joseph F. Rudzinski
- Department
of Chemistry and ‡Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and ‡Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and ‡Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and ‡Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and ‡Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Zhang Y, Cao Z, Zhang JZ, Xia F. Performance Comparison of Systematic Methods for Rigorous Definition of Coarse-Grained Sites of Large Biomolecules. J Chem Inf Model 2017; 57:214-222. [PMID: 28128949 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.6b00683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Construction of coarse-grained (CG) models for large biomolecules used for multiscale simulations demands a rigorous definition of CG sites for them. Several coarse-graining methods such as the simulated annealing and steepest descent (SASD) based on the essential dynamics coarse-graining (ED-CG) or the stepwise local iterative optimization (SLIO) based on the fluctuation maximization coarse-graining (FM-CG), were developed to do it. However, the practical applications of these methods such as SASD based on ED-CG are subject to limitations because they are too expensive. In this work, we extend the applicability of ED-CG by combining it with the SLIO algorithm. A comprehensive comparison of optimized results and accuracy of various algorithms based on ED-CG show that SLIO is the fastest as well as the most accurate algorithm among them. ED-CG combined with SLIO could give converged results as the number of CG sites increases, which demonstrates that it is another efficient method for coarse-graining large biomolecules. The construction of CG sites for Ras protein by using MD fluctuations demonstrates that the CG sites derived from FM-CG can reflect the fluctuation properties of secondary structures in Ras accurately.
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- Yuwei Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemistry Engineering, Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005, China.,School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University , Shanghai 200062, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemistry Engineering, Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005, China
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University , Shanghai 200062, China.,NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry, NYU Shanghai , Shanghai 200062, China
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University , Shanghai 200062, China.,NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry, NYU Shanghai , Shanghai 200062, China
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Gooneie A, Schuschnigg S, Holzer C. A Review of Multiscale Computational Methods in Polymeric Materials. Polymers (Basel) 2017; 9:E16. [PMID: 30970697 PMCID: PMC6432151 DOI: 10.3390/polym9010016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2016] [Revised: 12/07/2016] [Accepted: 12/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Polymeric materials display distinguished characteristics which stem from the interplay of phenomena at various length and time scales. Further development of polymer systems critically relies on a comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of their hierarchical structure and behaviors. As such, the inherent multiscale nature of polymer systems is only reflected by a multiscale analysis which accounts for all important mechanisms. Since multiscale modelling is a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field, the emerging possibilities and challenges can be of a truly diverse nature. The present review attempts to provide a rather comprehensive overview of the recent developments in the field of multiscale modelling and simulation of polymeric materials. In order to understand the characteristics of the building blocks of multiscale methods, first a brief review of some significant computational methods at individual length and time scales is provided. These methods cover quantum mechanical scale, atomistic domain (Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics), mesoscopic scale (Brownian dynamics, dissipative particle dynamics, and lattice Boltzmann method), and finally macroscopic realm (finite element and volume methods). Afterwards, different prescriptions to envelope these methods in a multiscale strategy are discussed in details. Sequential, concurrent, and adaptive resolution schemes are presented along with the latest updates and ongoing challenges in research. In sequential methods, various systematic coarse-graining and backmapping approaches are addressed. For the concurrent strategy, we aimed to introduce the fundamentals and significant methods including the handshaking concept, energy-based, and force-based coupling approaches. Although such methods are very popular in metals and carbon nanomaterials, their use in polymeric materials is still limited. We have illustrated their applications in polymer science by several examples hoping for raising attention towards the existing possibilities. The relatively new adaptive resolution schemes are then covered including their advantages and shortcomings. Finally, some novel ideas in order to extend the reaches of atomistic techniques are reviewed. We conclude the review by outlining the existing challenges and possibilities for future research.
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- Ali Gooneie
- Chair of Polymer Processing, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Otto Gloeckel-Strasse 2, 8700 Leoben, Austria.
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- Chair of Polymer Processing, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Otto Gloeckel-Strasse 2, 8700 Leoben, Austria.
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- Chair of Polymer Processing, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Otto Gloeckel-Strasse 2, 8700 Leoben, Austria.
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McCullagh P, Lake PT, McCullagh M. Deriving Coarse-Grained Charges from All-Atom Systems: An Analytic Solution. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:4390-9. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Peter McCullagh
- Department
of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, United States
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Dunn NJH, Noid WG. Bottom-up coarse-grained models with predictive accuracy and transferability for both structural and thermodynamic properties of heptane-toluene mixtures. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:204124. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4952422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Nicholas J. H. Dunn
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Hills RD, McGlinchey N. Model parameters for simulation of physiological lipids. J Comput Chem 2016; 37:1112-8. [PMID: 26864972 PMCID: PMC5067697 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2015] [Revised: 12/19/2015] [Accepted: 01/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Coarse grain simulation of proteins in their physiological membrane environment can offer insight across timescales, but requires a comprehensive force field. Parameters are explored for multicomponent bilayers composed of unsaturated lipids DOPC and DOPE, mixed-chain saturation POPC and POPE, and anionic lipids found in bacteria: POPG and cardiolipin. A nonbond representation obtained from multiscale force matching is adapted for these lipids and combined with an improved bonding description of cholesterol. Equilibrating the area per lipid yields robust bilayer simulations and properties for common lipid mixtures with the exception of pure DOPE, which has a known tendency to form nonlamellar phase. The models maintain consistency with an existing lipid-protein interaction model, making the force field of general utility for studying membrane proteins in physiologically representative bilayers.
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- Ronald D Hills
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of New England, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland, Maine, 04103
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of New England, 716 Stevens Ave, Portland, Maine, 04103
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Foley TT, Shell MS, Noid WG. The impact of resolution upon entropy and information in coarse-grained models. J Chem Phys 2016; 143:243104. [PMID: 26723589 DOI: 10.1063/1.4929836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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By eliminating unnecessary degrees of freedom, coarse-grained (CG) models tremendously facilitate numerical calculations and theoretical analyses of complex phenomena. However, their success critically depends upon the representation of the system and the effective potential that governs the CG degrees of freedom. This work investigates the relationship between the CG representation and the many-body potential of mean force (PMF), W, which is the appropriate effective potential for a CG model that exactly preserves the structural and thermodynamic properties of a given high resolution model. In particular, we investigate the entropic component of the PMF and its dependence upon the CG resolution. This entropic component, SW, is a configuration-dependent relative entropy that determines the temperature dependence of W. As a direct consequence of eliminating high resolution details from the CG model, the coarsening process transfers configurational entropy and information from the configuration space into SW. In order to further investigate these general results, we consider the popular Gaussian Network Model (GNM) for protein conformational fluctuations. We analytically derive the exact PMF for the GNM as a function of the CG representation. In the case of the GNM, -TSW is a positive, configuration-independent term that depends upon the temperature, the complexity of the protein interaction network, and the details of the CG representation. This entropic term demonstrates similar behavior for seven model proteins and also suggests, in each case, that certain resolutions provide a more efficient description of protein fluctuations. These results may provide general insight into the role of resolution for determining the information content, thermodynamic properties, and transferability of CG models. Ultimately, they may lead to a rigorous and systematic framework for optimizing the representation of CG models.
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- Thomas T Foley
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Ruff KM, Harmon TS, Pappu RV. CAMELOT: A machine learning approach for coarse-grained simulations of aggregation of block-copolymeric protein sequences. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:243123. [PMID: 26723608 PMCID: PMC4644154 DOI: 10.1063/1.4935066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2015] [Accepted: 10/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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We report the development and deployment of a coarse-graining method that is well suited for computer simulations of aggregation and phase separation of protein sequences with block-copolymeric architectures. Our algorithm, named CAMELOT for Coarse-grained simulations Aided by MachinE Learning Optimization and Training, leverages information from converged all atom simulations that is used to determine a suitable resolution and parameterize the coarse-grained model. To parameterize a system-specific coarse-grained model, we use a combination of Boltzmann inversion, non-linear regression, and a Gaussian process Bayesian optimization approach. The accuracy of the coarse-grained model is demonstrated through direct comparisons to results from all atom simulations. We demonstrate the utility of our coarse-graining approach using the block-copolymeric sequence from the exon 1 encoded sequence of the huntingtin protein. This sequence comprises of 17 residues from the N-terminal end of huntingtin (N17) followed by a polyglutamine (polyQ) tract. Simulations based on the CAMELOT approach are used to show that the adsorption and unfolding of the wild type N17 and its sequence variants on the surface of polyQ tracts engender a patchy colloid like architecture that promotes the formation of linear aggregates. These results provide a plausible explanation for experimental observations, which show that N17 accelerates the formation of linear aggregates in block-copolymeric N17-polyQ sequences. The CAMELOT approach is versatile and is generalizable for simulating the aggregation and phase behavior of a range of block-copolymeric protein sequences.
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- Kiersten M Ruff
- Computational and Systems Biology Program and Center for Biological Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, USA
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- Department of Physics and Center for Biological Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Biological Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, CB 1097, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, USA
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Dunn NJH, Noid WG. Bottom-up coarse-grained models that accurately describe the structure, pressure, and compressibility of molecular liquids. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:243148. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4937383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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- Nicholas J. H. Dunn
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Wagner JW, Dama JF, Voth GA. Predicting the Sensitivity of Multiscale Coarse-Grained Models to their Underlying Fine-Grained Model Parameters. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 11:3547-60. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jacob W. Wagner
- Department of Chemistry,
James Franck Institute, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and Computation
Institute, University of Chicago, 5735 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry,
James Franck Institute, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and Computation
Institute, University of Chicago, 5735 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry,
James Franck Institute, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and Computation
Institute, University of Chicago, 5735 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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Rudzinski JF, Noid WG. Bottom-Up Coarse-Graining of Peptide Ensembles and Helix–Coil Transitions. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 11:1278-91. [DOI: 10.1021/ct5009922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Joseph F. Rudzinski
- Department
of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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