Machine Learning-Assisted Phase Transition Temperatures from Generalized Replica Exchange Simulations of Dry Martini Lipid Bilayers

• Published in: The journal of physical chemistry letters 2022-07, Vol.13 (28), p.6481-6486
• Main Authors: Piskulich, Zeke A., Cui, Qiang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Physical Insights into Materials and Molecular Properties
• ISSN: 1948-7185; 1948-7185
• DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01654

Accurate estimation of phase transition temperatures has been a longstanding challenge for molecular simulations. Recently, the generalized Replica Exchange technique for estimating phase transition temperatures has allowed for improved sampling of the phase transition; however, it requires a significant number of simultaneous replicas both inside and outside of the transition region leading to costly computational expense. In this work, the recently developed machine learning-assisted lipid phase analysis technique for learning the phase of individual lipids has been combined with generalized Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics to reduce the overall computational expense of evaluating transition temperatures. This technique is then applied to eight different Dry Martini lipids to demonstrate its ability to describe transition temperatures as a function of chain length and tail saturation.