PLUMED-TUTORIALS

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The graph below shows a subset of the lessons that have been submitted to the PLUMED-TUTORIALS website and suggests an order for working through them. PLUMED-TUTORIAL monitors whether PLUMED input files in these lessons are compatible with the current and development versions of the code and integrates links from these files to the PLUMED manual. Inputs in the tutorials listed below were last tested on .

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0("VisMetaDynamics")
1("Metadynamics")
2("Setting Up and Analyzing Bias-
Exchange Metadynamics
Simulations")
3("PLUMED syntax and analysis")
4("Parameterization of Path CVs
for drug-target binding")
5("Modelling mechanobiological
processes")
6("Mechanical pulling + FISST
module")
7("Path integral metadynamics")
8("SASA module - The solvent
accessible surface area of
proteins as a collective
variable, and the application
of PLUMED for implicit solvent
simulations")
9("Modelling Concentration-driven
processes with PLUMED")
10("Analysis of PLUMED output by
Metadynminer")
11("Umbrella Sampling")
12("Statistical errors in MD")
13("Defining custom machine
learning CV with metatomic")
14("Refining AlphaFold models for
virtual screening")
15("An introduction to CpH-
Metadynamics simulations")
16("Enhanced sampling for
magnesium-RNA binding dynamics")
17("Alpha-Fold Metainference for
structural ensemble prediction
of a partially disordered
protein")
18("Permutationally Invariant
Networks for Enhanced Sampling
(PINES)")
19("Multiple Walkers Metadynamics
Simulations with a Reactive
Machine Learning Interatomic
Potential")
20("Transition-Tempered
Metadynamics")
21("Volume-based Metadynamics")
22("Free energy calculations in
crystalline solids")
23("Rethinking Metadynamics using
the OPES method")
24("Using path collective
variables to find reaction
mechanisms in complex free
energy landscapes")
25("Machine learning collective
variables with PyTorch")
26("Optimizing PLUMED performances")
27("Replica exchange methods")
28("Dimensionality reduction")
29("Installing PLUMED")
30("ASE-PLUMED interface")
31("Exploring Free Energy Surfaces
with MACE-PLUMED Metadynamics")
32("Using the maze module")
33("Standard binding free energies
from cylindrical restraints")
34("A Bayesian approach to
integrate cryo-EM data into MD
simulations with PLUMED")
35("Hamiltonian replica exchange
with PLUMED and GROMACS")
36("EDS module and Coarse-Grained
directed simulations")
subgraph g0 [ ]
0("VisMetaDynamics")
33("Standard binding free energies
from cylindrical restraints")
4("Parameterization of Path CVs
for drug-target binding")
7("Path integral metadynamics")
8("SASA module - The solvent
accessible surface area of
proteins as a collective
variable, and the application
of PLUMED for implicit solvent
simulations")
10("Analysis of PLUMED output by
Metadynminer")
0~~~10;
13("Defining custom machine
learning CV with metatomic")
33~~~13;
15("An introduction to CpH-
Metadynamics simulations")
4~~~15;
16("Enhanced sampling for
magnesium-RNA binding dynamics")
7~~~16;
18("Permutationally Invariant
Networks for Enhanced Sampling
(PINES)")
8~~~18;
19("Multiple Walkers Metadynamics
Simulations with a Reactive
Machine Learning Interatomic
Potential")
10~~~19;
20("Transition-Tempered
Metadynamics")
13~~~20;
21("Volume-based Metadynamics")
15~~~21;
23("Rethinking Metadynamics using
the OPES method")
16~~~23;
27("Replica exchange methods")
18~~~27;
31("Exploring Free Energy Surfaces
with MACE-PLUMED Metadynamics")
19~~~31;
end
1("Metadynamics")
1--> g0;
subgraph g2 [ ]
32("Using the maze module")
2("Setting Up and Analyzing Bias-
Exchange Metadynamics
Simulations")
34("A Bayesian approach to
integrate cryo-EM data into MD
simulations with PLUMED")
36("EDS module and Coarse-Grained
directed simulations")
6("Mechanical pulling + FISST
module")
9("Modelling Concentration-driven
processes with PLUMED")
32~~~9;
12("Statistical errors in MD")
2~~~12;
14("Refining AlphaFold models for
virtual screening")
34~~~14;
17("Alpha-Fold Metainference for
structural ensemble prediction
of a partially disordered
protein")
36~~~17;
24("Using path collective
variables to find reaction
mechanisms in complex free
energy landscapes")
6~~~24;
28("Dimensionality reduction")
9~~~28;
30("ASE-PLUMED interface")
12~~~30;
end
3("PLUMED syntax and analysis")
3--> g2;
5("Modelling mechanobiological
processes")
6-->5;
11("Umbrella Sampling")
11-->1;
12-->11;
22("Free energy calculations in
crystalline solids")
23-->22;
23-->25;
25("Machine learning collective
variables with PyTorch")
26("Optimizing PLUMED performances")
27-->26;
27-->35;
29("Installing PLUMED")
29-->3;
35("Hamiltonian replica exchange
with PLUMED and GROMACS")
click 0 "lessons/25/001/data/NAVIGATION.html" "A graphical tool that allows you to visually inspect how the free energy surface for a metadynamics simulation is affected by the choice of hyperparameters [Authors: Christian Phillips]"
click 1 "lessons/21/004/data/NAVIGATION.html" "How to calculate statistical averages and free energy surfaces using metadynamics [Authors: Max Bonomi]"
click 2 "lessons/24/021/data/NAVIGATION.html" "This tutorial offers a comprehensive protocol, complemented by practical examples, for setting up and performing free energy analysis of bias-exchange metadynamics simulations of cis-trans isomerization in a proline-containing peptide. [Authors: Fabrizio Marinelli and Vanessa Ariadna Leone Alvarez]"
click 3 "lessons/21/001/data/NAVIGATION.html" "Basic features of the PLUMED input syntax with a particular focus on PBCs and selection tools [Authors: Max Bonomi]"
click 4 "lessons/24/011/data/NAVIGATION.html" "Using path CVs to study drug target binding with metadynamics [Authors: Mattia Bernetti and Matteo Masetti]"
click 5 "lessons/24/010/data/NAVIGATION.html" "A tutorial on modelling mechanobiological processes [Authors: Claire Pritchard, Guillaume Stirnemann and Glen Hocky]"
click 6 "lessons/22/015/data/NAVIGATION.html" "This tutorial explains how mechanical forces can be modeled using PLUMED and the FISST module [Authors: Guillaume Stirnemann and Glen Hocky]"
click 7 "lessons/24/005/data/NAVIGATION.html" "Incorporating nuclear quantum effects in metadynamics simulations using path integrals [Authors: Guillaume Fraux and Michele Ceriotti]"
click 8 "lessons/22/013/data/NAVIGATION.html" "An introduction to the SASA module and a description of how PLUMED can be used for implicit solvent simulations. [Authors: Andrea Arsiccio]"
click 9 "lessons/22/008/data/NAVIGATION.html" "An introduction to the tools that are available in PLUMED for simulating concentration-driven processes such as nucleation, growth and diffusion. [Authors: Matteo Salvalaglio]"
click 10 "lessons/22/002/data/NAVIGATION.html" "An introduction to the R package Metadynminer which can be used to analyse the output from metadynamics simulations [Authors: Vojtech Spiwok]"
click 11 "lessons/21/003/data/NAVIGATION.html" "How to calculate statistical averages and free energy surfaces using umbrella sampling [Authors: Giovanni Bussi]"
click 12 "lessons/21/002/data/NAVIGATION.html" "How to calculate errors on averages calculated from unbiased and biased MD simulations using the method of block averages. [Authors: Gareth Tribello]"
click 13 "lessons/25/003/data/NAVIGATION.html" "An introduction to the use of interface between plumed and the metatomic library [Authors: Guillaume Fraux, Rohit Goswami and Michele Ceriotti]"
click 14 "lessons/25/002/data/NAVIGATION.html" "A tutorial to use bAIes to refine AlphaFold models for small-molecule virtual screening [Authors: Samiran Sen]"
click 15 "lessons/24/020/data/NAVIGATION.html" "This tutorial aims to train users to perform CpH-Metadynamics simulations using the stochastic titration constant-pH Molecular Dynamics method and PLUMED. [Authors: Tomas Silva]"
click 16 "lessons/24/017/data/NAVIGATION.html" "This tutorial will teach you how to use PLUMED, GROMACS and Python notebooks to implement an enhanced sampling strategy for magnesium-RNA binding dynamics. [Authors: Olivier Languin Cattoen]"
click 17 "lessons/24/014/data/NAVIGATION.html" "A tutorial about how metainference can be used in tandem with Alpha-fold to predict the ensemble of structures for a partially disordered protein. [Authors: Faidon Brotzakis, Hussein Murtada and Michele Vendruscolo]"
click 18 "lessons/24/013/data/NAVIGATION.html" "An introduction to using permutationally invariant networks for enhanced sampling [Authors: Nicholas S.M. Herringer, Aniruddha Seal, Armin Shayesteh Zadeh, Siva Dasetty, Andrew L. Ferguson]"
click 19 "lessons/24/009/data/NAVIGATION.html" "Running metadynamics with a reactive, machine-learning interaction potential [Authors: Kam-Tung Chan and Davide Donadio]"
click 20 "lessons/24/007/data/NAVIGATION.html" "An introduction to the transition tempered metadynamics method [Authors: Jiangbo Wu and Gregory A. Voth]"
click 21 "lessons/24/004/data/NAVIGATION.html" "This tutorial teaches you how to run free energy calculations to investigate protein-ligand binding [Authors: Riccardo Capelli]"
click 22 "lessons/22/012/data/NAVIGATION.html" "An introduction to the Environmental similarity CV and the calculation of chemical potentials of liquids and solids [Authors: Pablo Piaggi]"
click 23 "lessons/22/003/data/NAVIGATION.html" "An introduction to the On-the-fly Probability Enhanced Sampling method [Authors: Michele Invernizzi]"
click 24 "lessons/22/009/data/NAVIGATION.html" "An introduction to using path collective variables for describing and simulating activated molecular processes [Authors: Bernd Ensing]"
click 25 "lessons/22/005/data/NAVIGATION.html" "An introduction to designing data-driven CVs using two methods (DeepLDA and DeepTICA). [Authors: Luigi Bonati]"
click 26 "lessons/21/007/data/NAVIGATION.html" "Some lessons on monitoring and improving the performance of PLUMED and gromacs [Authors: Max Bonomi]"
click 27 "lessons/21/005/data/NAVIGATION.html" "Running umbrella sampling with replica exchange, bias exchange metadynamics and parallel tempering metadynamics [Authors: Giovanni Bussi]"
click 28 "lessons/21/006/data/NAVIGATION.html" "An introduction to techniques such as dimensionality reduction, path collective variables, and indistinguishability that you may need to use in your own research projects. [Authors: Gareth Tribello]"
click 29 "lessons/20/001/data/NAVIGATION.html" "An interactive tutorial resource on compiling PLUMED and linking it with MD codes. [Authors: Gareth Tribello]"
click 30 "lessons/24/019/data/NAVIGATION.html" "Using PLUMED from ASE [Authors: Daniel Sucerquia, Pilar Cossio, Olga Lopez-Acevedo]"
click 31 "lessons/24/012/data/NAVIGATION.html" "Performing metadynamics simulations with LAMMPS, MACE and PLUMED [Authors: S.G.H. Brookes, C. Schran, A. Michaelides]"
click 32 "lessons/24/008/data/NAVIGATION.html" "Sampling ligand-protein dissociation using the maze module [Authors: Jakub Rydzewski]"
click 33 "lessons/24/006/data/NAVIGATION.html" "Calculating standard binding free energies with metadynamics, PLUMED and OpenMM [Authors: Blake I Armstrong, Paolo Raiteri and Julian D Gale]"
click 34 "lessons/22/017/data/NAVIGATION.html" "How to use PLUMED to perform single-structure and ensemble refinement using cryo-EM maps and EMMIVox. [Authors: Samuel Hoff and Max Bonomi]"
click 35 "lessons/22/010/data/NAVIGATION.html" "An introduction to running Hamiltonian replica exchange calculations using PLUMED and GROMACS. [Authors: Giovanni Bussi]"
click 36 "lessons/22/006/data/NAVIGATION.html" "This tutorials describes how to bias simulations to agree with experimental data using experiment directed simulation. [Authors: Glen Hocky and Andrew White]"