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Identification of metastabilities in monomolecular conformation kinetics

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  • The identification of metastable conformations of molecules plays an important role in computational drug design. One main difficulty is the fact that the underlying dynamic processes take place in high dimensional spaces. Although the restriction of degrees of freedom to a few dihedral angles significantly reduces the complexity of the problem, the existing algorithms are time-consuming. They are mainly based on the approximation of a transfer operator by an extensive sampling of states according to the Boltzmann distribution and short-time Hamiltonian dynamics simulations. We present a method which can identify metastable conformations without sampling the complete distribution. Our algorithm is based on local transition rates and uses only pointwise information about the potential energy surface. In order to apply the cluster algorithm PCCA+, we compute a few eigenvectors of the rate matrix by the Jacobi-Davidson method. Interpolation techniques are applied to approximate the thermodynamical weights of the clusters. The concluding example illustrates our approach for epigallocatechine, a molecule which can be described by seven dihedral angles.

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Author:Susanna Kube, Marcus Weber
URN:urn:nbn:de:0296-matheon-6083
Referee:Peter Deuflhard
Document Type:Preprint, Research Center Matheon
Language:English
Date of first Publication:2009/07/21
Release Date:2009/07/21
Institute:Freie Universität Berlin
Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)
Preprint Number:606
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