Biology – Quantitative Biology – Quantitative Methods
Scientific paper
2006-07-21
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Quantitative Methods
Scientific paper
Although atomistic simulations of proteins and other biological systems are approaching microsecond timescales, the quality of trajectories has remained difficult to assess. Such assessment is critical not only for establishing the relevance of any individual simulation but also in the extremely active field of developing computational methods. Here we map the trajectory assessment problem onto a simple statistical calculation of the ``effective sample size'' - i.e., the number of statistically independent configurations. The mapping is achieved by asking the question, ``How much time must elapse between snapshots included in a sample for that sample to exhibit the statistical properties expected for independent and identically distributed configurations?'' The resulting ``structural de-correlation time'' is robustly calculated using exact properties deduced from our previously developed ``structural histograms,'' without any fitting parameters. We show the method is equally and directly applicable to toy models, peptides, and a 72-residue protein model. Variants of our approach can readily be applied to a wide range of physical and chemical systems.
Lyman Edward
Zuckerman Daniel M.
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