Movements and confirmational changes within proteins are important for understanding protein function. Common methods for studying protein dynamics include molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and normal model analyses (NMA). Deep learning methods have also been applied to probe protein dynamics.

Table of contents
  1. Structure Prediction-based
    1. Subsampled AF2
    2. AFCluster
    3. AF2Complex
    4. StELa
    5. Af2 Conformations
  2. Elastic Network Models-based
    1. ProDy
    2. ClustENMD
  3. Molecular Dynamics-based
    1. Making it rain
  4. Trajectory Analysis
    1. mRMSD
  5. Additional resources

Structure Prediction-based

Subsampled AF2

High-throughput prediction of protein conformational distributions with subsampled AlphaFold2

Paper GitHub Colab

AFCluster

Predicting multiple conformations via sequence clustering and AlphaFold2

Paper GitHub Colab

AF2Complex

AF2Complex predicts direct physical interactions in multimeric proteins with deep learning

Paper GitHub Colab

StELa

Searching for Structure: Characterizing the Protein Conformational Landscape with Clustering-Based Algorithms

Paper GitHub

Af2 Conformations

Sampling alternative conformational states of transporters and receptors with AlphaFold2

Paper GitHub

Elastic Network Models-based

ProDy

ProDy: Protein Dynamics Inferred from Theory and Experiments

Paper Website

A collection of tools for studying different aspects of protein dynamics.

ClustENMD

ClustENMD: efficient sampling of biomolecular conformational space at atomic resolution

Paper Website

Iterative sampling along Anisotropic Network Model (ANM) modes to for generating protein conformations with intermediate brief MD simulations. Part of the ProDy ecosystem.

Molecular Dynamics-based

Making it rain

Making it Rain: Cloud-Based Molecular Simulations for Everyone

Paper GitHub

User-friendly front-end for running molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with a variety of different Colab notebooks.

Trajectory Analysis

mRMSD

Analysis of Protein Folding Simulation with Moving Root Mean Square Deviation

Paper GitHub

Additional resources