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Towards the simulation of biomolecules: optimisation of peptide-capped glycine using FFLUX

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posted on 2018-02-12, 07:21 authored by Joseph C. R. Thacker, Alex L. Wilson, Zak E. Hughes, Matthew J. Burn, Peter I. Maxwell, Paul L. A. Popelier

The optimisation of a peptide-capped glycine using the novel force field FFLUX is presented. FFLUX is a force field based on the machine-learning method kriging and the topological energy partitioning method called Interacting Quantum Atoms. FFLUX has a completely different architecture to that of traditional force fields, avoiding (harmonic) potentials for bonded, valence and torsion angles. In this study, FFLUX performs an optimisation on a glycine molecule and successfully recovers the target density-functional-theory energy with an error of 0.89 ± 0.03 kJ mol−1. It also recovers the structure of the global minimum with a root-mean-squared deviation of 0.05 Å (excluding hydrogen atoms). We also show that the geometry of the intra-molecular hydrogen bond in glycine is recovered accurately.

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