EspalomaCharge: Machine learning-enabled ultrafast partial charge assignment Guidelines
| Authors: | Wang, Y.; Pulido, I.; Takaba, K.; Kaminow, B.; Scheen, J.; Wang, L.; Chodera, J. D. |
| Title: | EspalomaCharge: Machine learning-enabled ultrafast partial charge assignment |
| Abstract: | Atomic partial charges are crucial parameters in molecular dynamics simulation, dictating the electrostatic contributions to intermolecular energies and thereby the potential energy landscape. Traditionally, the assignment of partial charges has relied on surrogates of ab initio semiempirical quantum chemical methods such as AM1-BCC and is expensive for large systems or large numbers of molecules. We propose a hybrid physical/graph neural network-based approximation to the widely popular AM1-BCC charge model that is orders of magnitude faster while maintaining accuracy comparable to differences in AM1-BCC implementations. Our hybrid approach couples a graph neural network to a streamlined charge equilibration approach in order to predict molecule-specific atomic electronegativity and hardness parameters, followed by analytical determination of optimal charge-equilibrated parameters that preserve total molecular charge. This hybrid approach scales linearly with the number of atoms, enabling for the first time the use of fully consistent charge models for small molecules and biopolymers for the construction of next-generation self-consistent biomolecular force fields. Implemented in the free and open source package EspalomaCharge, this approach provides drop-in replacements for both AmberTools antechamber and the Open Force Field Toolkit charging workflows, in addition to stand-alone charge generation interfaces. Source code is available at https://github.com/choderalab/espaloma-charge. © 2024 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. |
| Keywords: | controlled study; molecular dynamics; drug toxicity; nerve cell network; electric potential; molecules; quantum chemistry; chemical bonds; hardness; machine learning; ab initio calculation; ultra-fast; article; biopolymer; biopolymers; potential energy; atoms; machine-learning; forcefields; graph neural networks; dynamics simulation; electronegativity; atomic partial charges; charge models; crucial parameters; hybrid approach; partial charges |
| Journal Title: | Journal of Physical Chemistry A |
| Volume: | 128 |
| Issue: | 20 |
| ISSN: | 1089-5639 |
| Publisher: | American Chemical Society |
| Date Published: | 2024-05-23 |
| Start Page: | 4160 |
| End Page: | 4167 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c01287 |
| PUBMED: | 38717302 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
| PMCID: | PMC11129294 |
| DOI/URL: | |
| Notes: | Article -- Source: Scopus |
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