Investigating an Efficient and Accurate Protocol for Sampling Structures
from Molecular Dynamics Simulations: A Close Look by Different Wavelet
Families
Abstract
Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are widely used to predict the
behavior of molecular systems over time. However, one of the great
challenges of MD simulations is how to treat the thousands of
configurations obtained from calculations, since the number of the
quantum calculations (QM) required for evaluating electronic parameters
is too high and, sometimes, computationally impracticable. Thus, an
efficient and accurate sampling protocol is essential for combining
classical MD and QM calculations. In this article, based on the OWSCA
methodology, 93 wavelet signals were analyzed in order to further refine
the methodology and identify the best wavelet family for
[Fe(H2O)6]2+ and [Mn(H2O)6]2+ complexes in solution. Our results
point out that the bior1.3 was the best wavelet, values closest to the
experimental data were obtained for both studied systems.