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Brooke E Husic¹, Robert T McGibbon¹, Mohammad M Sultan¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

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|November 24, 2016

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Markov state models help analyze biomolecular simulations. Guidelines for protein folding models improve dynamics descriptions, but kinetic uncertainty remains an open challenge.

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Area of Science:

Computational Biology
Biophysics
Statistical Mechanics

Background:

Molecular dynamics simulations are generating vast amounts of biomolecular time-series data.
Analyzing this data requires advanced computational techniques to understand system dynamics.
Markov state models (MSMs) provide a framework for characterizing system states and transitions.

Purpose of the Study:

To apply a variational theorem for Markov state models to analyze protein folding dynamics.
To develop guidelines for constructing robust Markov state models for biomolecular systems.
To evaluate the impact of different modeling choices on the accuracy of folding dynamics descriptions.

Main Methods:

Analysis of ultra-long folding simulations for twelve benchmark proteins.
Construction and evaluation of numerous Markov state models with varying parameters.
Application of a variational theorem to systematically assess model quality.
Utilized cross-validation and kinetically motivated dimensionality reduction.

Main Results:

Established guidelines for constructing effective Markov state models of protein folding.
Demonstrated the utility of cross-validation and dimensionality reduction for improved dynamics analysis.
Highlighted the sensitivity of kinetic predictions to the choice of descriptive features.

Conclusions:

Markov state models, guided by variational principles, are essential for analyzing long biomolecular simulations.
Recommended practices include cross-validation and dimensionality reduction for accurate protein folding dynamics.
Further research is needed to address kinetic uncertainty in ensembles of Markov state models.