Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Volume 12, Issue 12, Pages 6130-6146Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00757
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- National Institutes of Health [R01CA129373, T32-GM095440]
- Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center's NCI Cancer Center Support Grant [P30CA012197]
- Wake Forest Research Fellowship from Wake Forest University's Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Center
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As the length of molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories grows with increasing computational power, so does the importance of clustering methods for partitioning trajectories into conformational bins. Of the methods available, the vast majority require users to either have some a priori knowledge about the system to be clustered or to tune clustering parameters through trial and error. Here we present non-parametric uses of two modern clustering techniques suitable for first-pass investigation of an MD trajectory. Being non-parametric, these methods require neither prior knowledge nor parameter tuning. The first method, HDBSCAN, is fast-relative to other popular clustering methods-and is able to group unstructured or intrinsically disordered systems (such as intrinsically disordered proteins, or IDPs) into bins that represent global conformational shifts. HDBSCAN is also useful for determining the overall stability of a system-as it tends to group stable systems into one or two bins-and identifying transition events between metastable states. The second method, iMWK-Means, with explicit rescaling followed by K-Means, while slower than HDBSCAN, performs well with stable, structured systems such as folded proteins and is able to identify higher resolution details such as changes in relative position of secondary structural elements. Used in conjunction, these clustering methods allow a user to discern quickly and without prior knowledge the stability of a simulated system and identify both local and global conformational changes.
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