Data di Pubblicazione:
2016
Citazione:
Metainference : a Bayesian inference method for heterogeneous systems / M. Bonomi, C. Camilloni, A. Cavalli, M. Vendruscolo. - In: SCIENCE ADVANCES. - ISSN 2375-2548. - 2:1(2016), pp. e1501177.1-e1501177.8. [10.1126/sciadv.1501177]
Abstract:
Modeling a complex system is almost invariably a challenging task. The incorporation of experimental observations can be used to improve the quality of a model and thus to obtain better predictions about the behavior of the corresponding system. This approach, however, is affected by a variety of different errors, especially when a system simultaneously populates an ensemble of different states and experimental data are measured as averages over such states. To address this problem, we present a Bayesian inference method, called "metainference," that is able to deal with errors in experimental measurements and with experimental measurements averaged over multiple states. To achieve this goal, metainference models a finite sample of the distribution of models using a replica approach, in the spirit of the replica-averaging modeling based on the maximum entropy principle. To illustrate the method, we present its application to a heterogeneous model system and to the determination of an ensemble of structures corresponding to the thermal fluctuations of a protein molecule. Metainference thus provides an approach to modeling complex systems with heterogeneous components and interconverting between different states by taking into account all possible sources of errors.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
maximum entropy principle; Statistical inference; structural biology; Entropy; Proteins; Bayes Theorem; Models, Theoretical; Medicine (all)
Elenco autori:
M. Bonomi, C. Camilloni, A. Cavalli, M. Vendruscolo
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