Exploring the Energy Landscapes of Protein Folding Simulations with Bayesian Computation

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2010-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/1010.4735v4

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Biomolecules

28 pages, 16 figures. Under revision for Biophysical Journal

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Nested sampling is a Bayesian sampling technique developed to explore probability distributions lo- calised in an exponentially small area of the parameter space. The algorithm provides both posterior samples and an estimate of the evidence (marginal likelihood) of the model. The nested sampling algo- rithm also provides an efficient way to calculate free energies and the expectation value of thermodynamic observables at any temperature, through a simple post-processing of the output. Previous applications of the algorithm have yielded large efficiency gains over other sampling techniques, including parallel tempering (replica exchange). In this paper we describe a parallel implementation of the nested sampling algorithm and its application to the problem of protein folding in a Go-type force field of empirical potentials that were designed to stabilize secondary structure elements in room-temperature simulations. We demonstrate the method by conducting folding simulations on a number of small proteins which are commonly used for testing protein folding procedures: protein G, the SH3 domain of Src tyrosine kinase and chymotrypsin inhibitor 2. A topological analysis of the posterior samples is performed to produce energy landscape charts, which give a high level description of the potential energy surface for the protein folding simulations. These charts provide qualitative insights into both the folding process and the nature of the model and force field used.

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