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Evianne Rovers^1,2,3, Anvith Thudi^4,3, Jérôme Hénin⁵

¹Structural Genomics Consortium, Toronto M5G 1L7, Canada.

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This study introduces k-NN adaptive sampling (kNN-AS), a new method to speed up molecular dynamics (MD) simulations by intelligently selecting starting points for simulations. kNN-AS efficiently explores complex molecular systems by focusing on boundary states.

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Area of Science:

Computational Biology
Biophysics
Molecular Modeling

Background:

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are crucial for studying biomolecular systems but are computationally intensive.
Existing adaptive sampling methods have limitations in guiding exploration or handling complex, non-convex energy landscapes.
Efficient exploration of conformational space is essential for understanding molecular behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a novel adaptive sampling algorithm to accelerate biomolecular simulations.
To address the limitations of existing methods in exploring complex conformational spaces.
To provide a computationally efficient and broadly applicable sampling technique.

Main Methods:

Introduced k-NN adaptive sampling (kNN-AS), utilizing a k-nearest neighbor graph of sampled conformations.
kNN-AS preferentially launches new simulations from boundary states identified within the conformational space.
Algorithm tested on artificial energy functions and a protein system.

Main Results:

kNN-AS demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on both simple and complex artificial energy landscapes.
The method showed good generalization capabilities on a protein simulation test case.
Implementation is lightweight, simple, and suitable for unknown energy landscape dimensions.

Conclusions:

kNN-AS is an effective and efficient novel adaptive sampling algorithm for accelerating molecular dynamics simulations.
The algorithm's ability to explore boundary states makes it well-suited for complex, high-dimensional systems.
kNN-AS offers a practical solution for computationally demanding biomolecular simulations where landscape properties are unknown.