Journal
MOLECULAR SIMULATION
Volume 42, Issue 13, Pages 1046-1055Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2015.1121541
Keywords
Biomolecules; enhanced sampling; unconstrained; free energy
Funding
- NSF [MCB1020765]
- NIH [GM31749]
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR)
- national supercomputer center (XSEDE) [TG-MCA93S013, TG-MCB140011]
- national supercomputer center (NERSC) [M1925]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [P41GM103426, R01GM031749] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Free energy calculations are central to understanding the structure, dynamics and function of biomolecules. Yet insufficient sampling of biomolecular configurations is often regarded as one of the main sources of error. Many enhanced sampling techniques have been developed to address this issue. Notably, enhanced sampling methods based on biasing collective variables (CVs), including the widely used umbrella sampling, adaptive biasing force and metadynamics, have been discussed in a recent excellent review (Abrams and Bussi, Entropy, 2014). Here, we aim to review enhanced sampling methods that do not require predefined system-dependent CVs for biomolecular simulations and as such do not suffer from the hidden energy barrier problem as encountered in the CV-biasing methods. These methods include, but are not limited to, replica exchange/parallel tempering, self-guided molecular/Langevin dynamics, essential energy space random walk and accelerated molecular dynamics. While it is overwhelming to describe all details of each method, we provide a summary of the methods along with the applications and offer our perspectives. We conclude with challenges and prospects of the unconstrained enhanced sampling methods for accurate biomolecular free energy calculations.
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