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Cheng Ye, Bryan Thornlow, Angie Hinrichs, Devika Torvi + 3 more
Phylogenetic tree optimization is necessary for precise analysis of evolutionary and transmission dynamics, but existing tools are inadequate for handling the scale and pace of data produced during the COVID-19 pandemic. One transformative approach, online phylogenetics, aims to incrementally add samples to an…
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With the ever-increasing demand for atomistic structures representative of real-life systems as well as the ad-vent of exascale computers, it has now become necessary and possible to use advanced global optimization (GO) techniques to intelligently sample the potential energy surface (PES). Given the previous studies…
David R. Penas, Meysam Hashemi, Viktor K. Jirsa, Julio R. Banga
The Virtual Epileptic Patient (VEP) refers to a computer-based representation of a patient with epilepsy that combines personalized anatomical data with dynamical models of abnormal brain activities. It is capable of generating spatio-temporal seizure patterns that resemble those recorded with invasive methods such as…
Máté Mohácsi, Márk Patrik Török, Sára Sáray, Luca Tar + 1 more
Finding optimal parameters for detailed neuronal models is a ubiquitous challenge in neuroscientific research. Recently, manual model tuning has been replaced by automated parameter search using a variety of different tools and methods. However, using most of these software tools and choosing the most appropriate…
Manuel Carrer, Henrique Musseli Cezar, Sigbjørn Løland Bore, Morten Ledum + 1 more
We develop #-HylleraasMD (#-HyMD), a fully end-to-end differentiable molecular dynamics software based on the Hamiltonian hybrid particle-field formalism, and use it to establish a protocol for automated optimization of force field parameters. #-HyMD is templated on the recently established HylleraaasMD software, while…
Kecong Tang, Ahsan Sanaullah, Degui Zhi, Shaojie Zhang
Durbin’s positional Burrows-Wheeler transform (PBWT) enables algorithms with the optimal time complexity of O(MN) for reporting all vs all haplotype matches in a population panel with M haplotypes and N variant sites. However, even this efficiency may still be too slow when the number of haplotypes reaches millions. To…
Yifan Wu, Aron Walsh, Alex Ganose
What is the minimum number of experiments, or calculations, required to find an optimal solution? Relevant chemical problems range from identifying a compound with target functionality within a given phase space to controlling materials synthesis and device fabrication conditions. A common feature in this application…
Ian Knight, Khanh Tang, John Irwin
Molecular docking is a widely used technique for leveraging protein structure in ligand discovery, but as a method, it remains difficult to utilize due to limitations that have not been adequately addressed. Despite some progress towards automation, docking still requires expert guidance, hindering its adoption by a…
Andre KY Low, Flore Mekki-Berrada, Aleksandr Ostudin, Jiaxun Xie + 7 more
The development of automated high-throughput experimental platforms has enabled fast sampling of high-dimensional decision spaces. To reach target properties efficiently, these platforms are increasingly paired with intelligent experimental design. When solving optimization problems, Bayesian-based optimizers are often…
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Background: Pharmaceutical batch scheduling in multi-reactor configurations presents complex optimization challenges under operational uncertainty, yet limited research addresses how parallel processing capacity affects heuristic performance and predictive modeling. Objectives: This study investigated scheduling…
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This study presents a novel application of Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization (MOBO) to enhance the formulation of flame-retardant polypropylene (PP) composites. Our goal was to optimize the chemical composition of intumescent polypropylene (PP) formulations by maximizing the Limiting Oxygen Index (LOI) and…
Riley Hickman, Priyansh Parakh, Austin Cheng, Qianxiang Ai + 3 more
Experiment planning algorithms are a required component of autonomous platforms for scientific discovery. Selecting a suitable optimization algorithm for a novel application is an important yet difficult choice a researcher has to make based on past empirical performance on similar tasks. To facilitate the evaluation…
Changin Oh, Kathleen P. Wilkie
We present the Toroidal Search Algorithm (TSA), a novel population-based metaheuristic optimization method inspired by the topology of a torus. Conventional metaheuristics frequently suffer from boundary stagnation, a phenomenon that severely degrades performance in bounded and high-dimensional search spaces. TSA…