title: Communication: Multiple atomistic force fields in a single enhanced sampling simulation.
abstract: The main concerns of biomolecular dynamics simulations are the convergence of the conformational sampling and the dependence of the results on the force fields. While the first issue can be addressed by employing enhanced sampling techniques such as simulated tempering or replica exchange molecular dynamics, repeating these simulations with different force fields is very time consuming. Here, we propose an automatic method that includes different force fields into a single advanced sampling simulation. Conformational sampling using three all-atom force fields is enhanced by simulated tempering and by formulating the weight parameters of the simulated tempering method in terms of the energy fluctuations, the system is able to perform random walk in both temperature and force field spaces. The method is first demonstrated on a 1D system and then validated by the folding of the 10-residue chignolin peptide in explicit water.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8202, USA.
authors.forename: Man
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoang Viet
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, UPR 9080, CNRS, Université Denis Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité IBPC, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Derreumaux
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, UPR 9080, CNRS, Université Denis Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité IBPC, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Phuong H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Nguyen
mesh_terms: D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000737:chemistry; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D011487:Protein Conformation; D012997:Solvents / Q000737:chemistry; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D009842:Oligopeptides; D012997:Solvents; C506175:chignolin; D014867:Water