Visualizing and Identifying Conformational Ensembles in Molecular Dynamics Trajectories

  • Authors:
  • Christoph Best;Hans-Christian Hege

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Computing in Science and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Simulating the dynamics of complex biomolecules produces trajectories comprising a large number of different configurations of the molecule. These configurations must be classified into a small number of conformational ensembles representing essential changes in the molecule's shape. Using a conformational distance measure based on the changes in intramolecular atom distances, we show that a planar map can help us visualize these trajectories efficiently such that different conformational ensembles appear as well-separated point sets. We then use statistical cluster analysis to identify clusters that represent different conformational ensembles.