B-spline tight frame based force matching method

In molecular dynamics simulations, compared with popular all-atom force field approaches, coarse-grained (CG) methods are frequently used for the rapid investigations of long time- and length-scale processes in many important biological and soft matter studies. The typical task in coarse-graining is...

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Main Authors: Yang, Jianbin, Zhu, Guanhua, Tong, Dudu, Lu, Lanyuan, Shen, Zuowei
Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87036
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45216
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:In molecular dynamics simulations, compared with popular all-atom force field approaches, coarse-grained (CG) methods are frequently used for the rapid investigations of long time- and length-scale processes in many important biological and soft matter studies. The typical task in coarse-graining is to derive interaction force functions between different CG site types in terms of their distance, bond angle or dihedral angle. In this paper, an L1-regularized least squares model is applied to form the force functions, which makes additional use of the B-spline wavelet frame transform in order to preserve the important features of force functions. The B-spline tight frames system has a simple explicit expression which is useful for representing our force functions. Moreover, the redundancy of the system offers more resilience to the effects of noise and is useful in the case of lossy data. Numerical results for molecular systems involving pairwise non-bonded, three and four-body bonded interactions are obtained to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.