60J70 Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) [See also 92Dxx]
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In recent years Markov State Models (MSMs) have attracted a consid-
erable amount of attention with regard to modelling conformation changes
and associated function of biomolecular systems. They have been used
successfully, e.g., for peptides including time-resolved spectroscopic ex-
periments, protein function and protein folding , DNA and RNA, and
ligand-receptor interaction in drug design and more complicated multi-
valent scenarios. In this article a novel reweighting scheme is introduced
that allows to construct an MSM for certain molecular system out of an
MSM for a similar system. This permits studying how molecular proper-
ties on long timescales differ between similar molecular systems without
performing full molecular dynamics simulations for each system under con-
sideration. The performance of the reweighting scheme is illustrated for
simple test cases including one where the main wells of the respective en-
ergy landscapes are located differently and an alchemical transformation
of butane to pentane where the dimension of the state space is changed.
We present formulae for the corner points of the multidimensional Hausdorff and Dale Polytopes and show how these results can be used to improve linear programming models for computing e.\,g.\ moments of exit distribution of diffusion processes. Specifically, we compute the mean exit time of twodimensional Brownian motion from the unit square and the unit triangle, as well as higher moments of the exit time of time space Brownian motion from a triangle.