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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Informal Seminar on Mathematics and Biochemistry-Biophysics

Lane Votapka

Biochemistry, UCSD

Multiscale Estimation of Binding Kinetics using Molecular Dyn., Browinian Dyn., & Markov State Model

Abstract:

A challenge for the field of computational biophysics is to develop approaches that bridge across the disparate time and length scales sampled within different simulation regimes. Methods for combining the speed of rigid-body Brownian dynamics (BD) simulations with the precision of all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using a Markov state model (MSM) attempt to improve estimates of binding kinetics. We seek to use MSMs to alleviate the computational burden imposed by long time processes by partitioning conformational space into manageable pieces, simulating them in parallel, and then combining the resulting statistics using the MSMs to yield meaningful information.

Hosts: Li-Tien Cheng and Bo Li

February 27, 2014

1:00 PM

AP&M 5829

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