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An Information Bottleneck Approach for Markov Model Construction
Dedi Wang, Yunrui Qiu, Eric Beyerle, Xuhui Huang, Pratyush Tiwary
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Markov state models (MSMs) are valuable for studying dynamics of protein conformational changes via statistical analysis of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In MSMs, the complex configuration space is coarse-grained into conformational states, with the dynamics modeled by a series of Markovian transitions among these states at discrete lag times. Constructing the Markovian model at a specific lag time requires state defined without significant internal energy barriers, enabling internal dynamics relaxation within the lag time. This process coarse grains time and space, integrating out rapid motions within metastable states. This work introduces a continuous embedding approach for molecular conformations using the state predictive information bottleneck (SPIB), which unifies dimensionality reduction and state space partitioning via a continuous, machine learned basis set. Without explicit optimization of VAMP-based scores, SPIB demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in identifying slow dynamical processes and constructing predictive multi-resolution Markovian models. When applied to mini-proteins trajectories, SPIB showcases unique advantages compared to competing methods. It automatically adjusts the number of metastable states based on a specified minimal time resolution, eliminating the need for manual tuning. While maintaining efficacy in dynamical properties, SPIB excels in accurately distinguishing metastable states and capturing numerous well-populated macrostates. Furthermore, SPIB's ability to learn a low-dimensional continuous embedding of the underlying MSMs enhances the interpretation of dynamic pathways. Accordingly, we propose SPIB as an easy-to-implement methodology for end-to-end MSM construction.
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