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  • Computational Chemistry
  • Biophysics
  • Molecular Dynamics

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  • Conformational changes are crucial in chemical and biological processes.
  • Markov state models (MSM) and transition path theory (TPT) analyze these changes using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations.
  • Analyzing complex conformational changes yields numerous kinetic pathways, hindering comprehension.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel algorithm, latent-space path clustering (LPC), for efficient classification of kinetic pathways.
  • To simplify the analysis of complex conformational changes by lumping parallel pathways into metastable path channels.

Main Methods:

  • MD simulations were used to generate conformational data.
  • Time-structure-based independent component analysis (tICA) projected conformations onto collective variables (CVs).
  • MSM and TPT were constructed to obtain pathways, and a variational autoencoder (VAE) embedded pathways into a latent space for clustering.

Main Results:

  • LPC successfully identified metastable path channels in a 2D potential, hydrophobic particle aggregation, and protein folding (Fip35 WW domain).
  • LPC demonstrated superior performance over previous algorithms in accurately assigning pathways to channels.
  • The algorithm efficiently lumps parallel kinetic pathways, making complex mechanisms easier to understand.

Conclusions:

  • LPC provides an effective method for classifying and comprehending numerous kinetic pathways in complex systems.
  • The developed algorithm facilitates the identification of dominant kinetic pathways in conformational changes.
  • LPC is expected to have broad applications in studying molecular mechanisms of conformational dynamics.