TY - GEN A1 - Deuflhard, Peter A1 - Schütte, Christof T1 - Molecular Conformation Dynamics and Computational Drug Design N2 - The paper surveys recent progress in the mathematical modelling and simulation of essential molecular dynamics. Particular emphasis is put on computational drug design wherein time scales of $msec$ up to $min$ play the dominant role. Classical long-term molecular dynamics computations, however, would run into ill-conditioned initial value problems already after time spans of only $psec=10^{-12} sec$. Therefore, in order to obtain results for times of pharmaceutical interest, a combined deterministic-stochastic model is needed. The concept advocated in this paper is the direct identification of metastable conformations together with their life times and their transition patterns. It can be interpreted as a {\em transfer operator} approach corresponding to some underlying hybrid Monte Carlo process, wherein short-term trajectories enter. Once this operator has been discretized, which is a hard problem of its own, a stochastic matrix arises. This matrix is then treated by {\em Perron cluster analysis}, a recently developed cluster analysis method involving the numerical solution of an eigenproblem for a Perron cluster of eigenvalues. In order to avoid the 'curse of dimension', the construction of appropriate boxes for the spatial discretization of the Markov operator requires careful consideration. As a biomolecular example we present a rather recent SARS protease inhibitor. T3 - ZIB-Report - 03-20 KW - conformation dynamics KW - Monte Carlo methods KW - transfer operations KW - Hamiltonian dynamics KW - Smoluchowski dynamics KW - metastable sets KW - Perron cluster an Y1 - 2003 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-7427 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Fischer, Alexander A1 - Huisinga, Wilhelm A1 - Deuflhard, Peter T1 - A Direct Approach to Conformational Dynamics based on Hybrid Monte Carlo N2 - Recently, a novel concept for the computation of essential features of the dynamics of Hamiltonian systems (such as molecular dynamics) has been proposed. The realization of this concept had been based on subdivision techniques applied to the Frobenius--Perron operator for the dynamical system. The present paper suggests an alternative but related concept that merges the conceptual advantages of the dynamical systems approach with the appropriate statistical physics framework. This approach allows to define the phrase ``conformation'' in terms of the dynamical behavior of the molecular system and to characterize the dynamical stability of conformations. In a first step, the frequency of conformational changes is characterized in statistical terms leading to the definition of some Markov operator $T$ that describes the corresponding transition probabilities within the canonical ensemble. In a second step, a discretization of $T$ via specific hybrid Monte Carlo techniques is shown to lead to a stochastic matrix $P$. With these theoretical preparations, an identification algorithm for conformations is applicable. It is demonstrated that the discretization of $T$ can be restricted to few essential degrees of freedom so that the combinatorial explosion of discretization boxes is prevented and biomolecular systems can be attacked. Numerical results for the n-pentane molecule and the triribonucleotide adenylyl\emph{(3'-5')}cytidylyl\emph{(3'-5')}cytidin are given and interpreted. T3 - ZIB-Report - SC-98-45 KW - conformation KW - conformational dynamics KW - hybrid Monte Carlo KW - reweighting KW - essential degrees of freedom KW - transition probabilities KW - Markov operator Y1 - 1999 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-3889 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Huisinga, Wilhelm A1 - Deuflhard, Peter T1 - Transfer Operator Approach to Conformational Dynamics in Biomolecular Systems N2 - The article surveys the development of novel mathematical concepts and algorithmic approaches based thereon in view of their possible applicability to biomolecular design. Both a first deterministic approach, based on the Frobenius-Perron operator corresponding to the flow of the Hamiltonian dynamics, and later stochastic approaches, based on a spatial Markov operator or on Langevin dynamics, can be subsumed under the unified mathematical roof of the transfer operator approach to effective dynamics of molecular systems. The key idea of constructing specific transfer operators especially taylored for the purpose of conformational dynamics appears as the red line throughout the paper. Different steps of the algorithm are exemplified by a trinucleotide molecular system as a small representative of possible RNA drug molecules. T3 - ZIB-Report - SC-99-36 KW - Transfer operator KW - Markov process KW - Markov chain KW - molecular dynamics KW - biomolecular conformations KW - canonical ensemble KW - transition prohability KW - Ha Y1 - 1999 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-4247 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Deuflhard, Peter A1 - Dellnitz, Michael A1 - Junge, Oliver A1 - Schütte, Christof T1 - Computation of Essential Molecular Dynamics by Subdivision Techniques I: Basic Concept N2 - The paper presents the concept of a new type of algorithm for the numerical computation of what the authors call the {\em essential dynamics\/} of molecular systems. Mathematically speaking, such systems are described by Hamiltonian differential equations. In the bulk of applications, individual trajectories are of no specific interest. Rather, time averages of physical observables or relaxation times of conformational changes need to be actually computed. In the language of dynamical systems, such information is contained in the natural invariant measure (infinite relaxation time) or in almost invariant sets ("large" finite relaxation times). The paper suggests the direct computation of these objects via eigenmodes of the associated Frobenius-Perron operator by means of a multilevel subdivision algorithm. The advocated approach is different to both Monte-Carlo techniques on the one hand and long term trajectory simulation on the other hand: in our setup long term trajectories are replaced by short term sub-trajectories, Monte-Carlo techniques are just structurally connected via the underlying Frobenius-Perron theory. Numerical experiments with a first version of our suggested algorithm are included to illustrate certain distinguishing properties. A more advanced version of the algorithm will be presented in a second part of this paper. T3 - ZIB-Report - SC-96-45 Y1 - 1996 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-2553 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Deuflhard, Peter A1 - Huisinga, Wilhelm A1 - Fischer, Alexander A1 - Schütte, Christof T1 - Identification of Almost Invariant Aggregates in Reversible Nearly Uncoupled Markov Chains N2 - The topic of the present paper bas been motivated by a recent computational approach to identify chemical conformations and conformational changes within molecular systems. After proper discretization, the conformations show up as almost invariant aggregates in reversible nearly uncoupled Markov chains. Most of the former work on this subject treated the direct problem: given the aggregates, analyze the loose coupling in connection with the computation of the stationary distribution (aggregation/disaggregation techniques). In contrast to that the present paper focuses on the inverse problem: given the system as a whole, identify the almost invariant aggregates together with the associated transition probabilites. A rather simple and robust algorithm is suggested and illustrated by its application to the n-pentane molecule. T3 - ZIB-Report - SC-98-03 KW - essential molecular dynamics KW - nearly reducible KW - nearly completely decomposable KW - nearly uncoupled Markov chain KW - almost invariant aggregates KW - trans Y1 - 1998 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-3469 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Fischer, Alexander A1 - Huisinga, Wilhelm A1 - Deuflhard, Peter T1 - A Hybrid Monte Carlo Method for Essential Molecular Dynamics N2 - Recently, a novel concept for the computation of essential features of Hamiltonian systems (such as those arising in molecular dynamics) has been proposed. The realization of that concept was based on subdivision techniques applied to the Frobenius--Perron operator for the dynamical system. The present paper suggests an alternative but related concept based on statistical mechanics, which allows to attack realistic molecular systems. In a first step, the frequency of conformational changes is characterized in statistical terms leading to the definition of some Markov operator $T$ that describes the corresponding transition probabilities within the canonical ensemble. In a second step, a discretization of $T$ via hybrid Monte Carlo techniques (based on short term subtrajectories only) is shown to lead to a stochastic matrix $P$. With these theoretical preparations, an identification algorithm for conformations is applicable (to be presented elsewhere). Numerical results for the n-pentane molecule are given and interpreted. T3 - ZIB-Report - SC-98-04 Y1 - 1998 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-3474 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Fischer, Alexander A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Deuflhard, Peter A1 - Cordes, Frank T1 - Hierarchical Uncoupling-Coupling of Metastable Conformations N2 - Uncoupling-coupling Monte Carlo (UCMC) combines uncoupling techniques for finite Markov chains with Markov chain Monte Carlo methodology. UCMC aims at avoiding the typical metastable or trapping behavior of Monte Carlo techniques. From the viewpoint of Monte Carlo, a slowly converging long-time Markov chain is replaced by a limited number of rapidly mixing short-time ones. Therefore, the state space of the chain has to be hierarchically decomposed into its metastable conformations. This is done by means of combining the technique of conformation analysis as recently introduced by the authors, and appropriate annealing strategies. We present a detailed examination of the uncoupling-coupling procedure which uncovers its theoretical background, and illustrates the hierarchical algorithmic approach. Furthermore, application of the UCMC algorithm to the $n$-pentane molecule allows us to discuss the effect of its crucial steps in a typical molecular scenario. T3 - ZIB-Report - 01-03 KW - almost invariant sets KW - bridge sampling KW - metastability KW - hierarchical annealing KW - hybrid Monte Carlo KW - $n$-pentane molecule KW - ratio of normalizing co Y1 - 2001 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-6296 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Huisinga, Wilhelm A1 - Deuflhard, Peter ED - Fiedler, Bernold T1 - Transfer operator approach to conformational dynamics in biomolecular systems T2 - Ergodic theory, analysis, and efficient simulation of dynamical systems Y1 - 2001 SP - 191 EP - 223 PB - Berlin: Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schütte, Christof A1 - Fischer, Alexander A1 - Huisinga, Wilhelm A1 - Deuflhard, Peter T1 - A Direct Approach to Conformational Dynamics Based on Hybrid Monte Carlo JF - J. Comput. Phys. Y1 - 1999 UR - http://www.zib.de/PaperWeb/abstracts/SC-98-45 VL - 151 SP - 146 EP - 168 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Deuflhard, Peter A1 - Dellnitz, M. A1 - Junge, Oliver A1 - Schütte, Christof ED - Deuflhard, Peter ED - Hermans, J. ED - Leimkuhler, Benedict ED - Marks, A. ED - Reich, Sebastian ED - Skeel, R. T1 - Computation of Essential Molecular Dynamics by Subdivision Techniques T2 - Computational Molecular Dynamics Y1 - 1999 UR - http://publications.mi.fu-berlin.de/135/ VL - 4 SP - 98 EP - 115 PB - Springer ER -