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Published on: November 21, 2013
Applications of enhanced sampling methods to biomolecular self-assembly: a review
Mason Hooten1, Het Patel2, Yiwei Shao2
1Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, United States of America.
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This review article discusses some common enhanced sampling methods in relation to the process of self-assembly of biomolecules. An introduction to self-assembly and its challenges is covered followed by a brief overview of the methods and analysis for replica-exchange molecular dynamics, umbrella sampling, metadynamics, and machine learning based techniques. Applications of select methods towards peptides, proteins, polymers, and nucleic acids are discussed. Finally, a short discussion of the future directions of some of these methods is provided.
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