TY - JOUR T1 - Bayesian Energy Landscape Tilting: Towards Concordant Models of Molecular Ensembles JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/002048 SP - 002048 AU - Kyle A. Beauchamp AU - Vijay S. Pande AU - Rhiju Das Y1 - 2014/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/01/24/002048.abstract N2 - Predicting biological structure has remained challenging for systems such as disordered proteins that take on myriad conformations. Hybrid simulation/experiment strategies have been undermined by difficulties in evaluating errors from computa- tional model inaccuracies and data uncertainties. Building on recent proposals from maximum entropy theory and nonequilibrium thermodynamics, we address these issues through a Bayesian Energy Landscape Tilting (BELT) scheme for computing Bayesian “hyperensembles” over conformational ensembles. BELT uses Markov chain Monte Carlo to directly sample maximum-entropy conformational ensembles consistent with a set of input experimental observables. To test this framework, we apply BELT to model trialanine, starting from disagreeing simulations with the force fields ff96, ff99, ff99sbnmr-ildn, CHARMM27, and OPLS-AA. BELT incorporation of limited chemical shift and 3J measurements gives convergent values of the peptide’s α, β, and PPII conformational populations in all cases. As a test of predictive power, all five BELT hyperensembles recover set-aside measurements not used in the fitting and report accu- rate errors, even when starting from highly inaccurate simulations. BELT’s principled fxramework thus enables practical predictions for complex biomolecular systems from discordant simulations and sparse data. ER -