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François Sicard

0000-0003-1408-7963

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Reconstructing the free-energy landscape of Met-enkephalin using dihedral principal component analysis and well-tempered metadynamics

2013

Well-Tempered Metadynamics (WTmetaD) is an efficient method to enhance the reconstruction of the free-energy surface of proteins. WTmetaD guarantees a faster convergence in the long time limit in comparison with the standard metadynamics. It still suffers however from the same limitation, i.e. the non trivial choice of pertinent collective variables (CVs). To circumvent this problem, we couple WTmetaD with a set of CVs generated from a dihedral Principal Component Analysis (dPCA) on the Ramachadran dihedral angles describing the backbone structure of the protein. The dPCA provides a generic method to extract relevant CVs built from internal coordinates. We illustrate the robustness of this …

Protein ConformationSurface PropertiesEnkephalin MethionineFOS: Physical sciencesGeneral Physics and AstronomyDihedral angle01 natural scienceslaw.invention03 medical and health scienceslaw0103 physical sciencesComputer SimulationCartesian coordinate systemPhysics - Biological PhysicsStatistical physicsPhysical and Theoretical ChemistryProtein secondary structureReference modelComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS030304 developmental biologyMathematicsPrincipal Component AnalysisQuantitative Biology::Biomolecules0303 health sciences010304 chemical physicsMetadynamicsEnergy landscapeBiomolecules (q-bio.BM)Condensed Matter - Other Condensed Matter[CHIM.THEO]Chemical Sciences/Theoretical and/or physical chemistryQuantitative Biology - BiomoleculesBiological Physics (physics.bio-ph)FOS: Biological sciencesPrincipal component analysis[ CHIM.THEO ] Chemical Sciences/Theoretical and/or physical chemistryPhysics::Accelerator PhysicsThermodynamicsEnergy MetabolismAlgorithmsOther Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)Ramachandran plot
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Exponents of non-linear clustering in scale-free one-dimensional cosmological simulations

2012

One dimensional versions of cosmological N-body simulations have been shown to share many qualitative behaviours of the three dimensional problem. They can resolve a large range of time and length scales, and admit exact numerical integration. We use such models to study how non-linear clustering depends on initial conditions and cosmology. More specifically, we consider a family of models which, like the 3D EdS model, lead for power-law initial conditions to self-similar clustering characterized in the strongly non-linear regime by power-law behaviour of the two point correlation function. We study how the corresponding exponent \gamma depends on the initial conditions, characterized by th…

PhysicsCosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)FOS: Physical sciencesSpectral densityAstronomy and AstrophysicsCosmologyNumerical integrationMetric expansion of spaceUniversality (dynamical systems)Nonlinear systemTheoretical physicsSpace and Planetary ScienceExponentStatistical physicsCluster analysisAstrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic AstrophysicsMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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