Using Wavelet Analysis To Assist in Identification of Significant Events in Molecular Dynamics Simulations

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• 作者：Zahra Heidari ; Daniel R. Roe ; Rodrigo Galindo-Murillo ; Jahan B. Ghasemi ; Thomas E. Cheatham III
• 刊名：Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：July 25, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：56
• 期：7
• 页码：1282-1291
• 全文大小：676K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1549-960X

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Long time scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of biological systems are becoming increasingly commonplace due to the availability of both large-scale computational resources and significant advances in the underlying simulation methodologies. Therefore, it is useful to investigate and develop data mining and analysis techniques to quickly and efficiently extract the biologically relevant information from the incredible amount of generated data. Wavelet analysis (WA) is a technique that can quickly reveal significant motions during an MD simulation. Here, the application of WA on well-converged long time scale (tens of μs) simulations of a DNA helix is described. We show how WA combined with a simple clustering method can be used to identify both the physical and temporal locations of events with significant motion in MD trajectories. We also show that WA can not only distinguish and quantify the locations and time scales of significant motions, but by changing the maximum time scale of WA a more complete characterization of these motions can be obtained. This allows motions of different time scales to be identified or ignored as desired.