Exploration of high dimensional free energy landscapes by a combination of temperature-accelerated sliced sampling and parallel biasing
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY(2022)
摘要
Temperature-accelerated sliced sampling (TASS) is an enhanced sampling method for achieving accelerated and controlled exploration of high-dimensional free energy landscapes in molecular dynamics simulations. With the aid of umbrella bias potentials, the TASS method realizes a controlled exploration and divide-and-conquer strategy for computing high-dimensional free energy surfaces. In TASS, diffusion of the system in the collective variable (CV) space is enhanced with the help of metadynamics bias and elevated-temperature of the auxiliary degrees of freedom (DOF) that are coupled to the CVs. Usually, a low-dimensional metadynamics bias is applied in TASS. In order to further improve the performance of TASS, we propose here to use a high-dimensional metadynamics bias, in the same form as in a parallel bias metadynamics scheme. Here, a modified reweighting scheme, in combination with artificial neural network is used for computing unbiased probability distribution of CVs and projections of high-dimensional free energy surfaces. We first validate the accuracy and efficiency of our method in computing the four-dimensional free energy landscape for alanine tripeptide in vacuo. Subsequently, we employ the approach to calculate the eight-dimensional free energy landscape of alanine pentapeptide in vacuo. Finally, the method is applied to a more realistic problem wherein we compute the broad four-dimensional free energy surface corresponding to the deacylation of a drug molecule which is covalently complexed with a beta-lactamase enzyme. We demonstrate that using parallel bias in TASS improves the efficiency of exploration of high-dimensional free energy landscapes.
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alanine pentapeptide, alanine tripeptide, artificial neural network, deacylation, free energy calculations, parallel bias Metadynamics, temperature accelerate sliced sampling, umbrella sampling, weighted histogram analysis, beta-lactamase
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