Abstract

Metadynamics and its variations are powerful tools for exploring the free energy landscape of physical, chemical and biophysical systems. However, previous tests of their accuracy were based on either low-dimensional systems or complicated systems without exact answers. Therefore their accuracy, particularly when used for high-dimensional biophysical systems, has not been rigorously tested. In this work we performed a series of simulations with metadynamics and its variations for a typical biophysical process – the folding of protein chymotrypsin inhibitor 2 (CI2) based on a coarse-grained structure-based model. The results revealed the power as well as limitations of the algorithms and provided some guidelines for using metadynamics and its variations in high-dimensional biological systems.

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