Python implementation of the multistate Bennett acceptance ratio (MBAR) method for estimating expectations and free energy differences from equilibrium samples from multiple probability densities. See our docs.
The easiest way to install the pymbar
release is via conda:
conda install -c conda-forge pymbar
which will come with JAX to speed up the code. Or to get the non-JAX accelerated version:
conda install -c conda-forge pymbar-core
You can also install JAX accelerated pymbar
from the Python package index
using pip
:
pip install pymbar[jax]
or the non-jax-accelerated version with
pip install pymbar
Whether you install the JAX accelerated or non-JAX-accelerated version does not change any calls or how the code is run. The non-Jax version is smaller on disk due to smaller dependencies, but may not run as fast.
The development version can be installed directly from github via pip
:
# Get the compressed tarball
pip install https://github.com/choderalab/pymbar/archive/master.tar.gz
# Or obtain a temporary clone of the repo with git
pip install git https://github.com/choderalab/pymbar.git
Basic usage involves importing pymbar
and constructing an MBAR
object from the reduced potential of simulation or experimental data.
Suppose we sample a 1D harmonic oscillator from a few thermodynamic states:
>>> from pymbar import testsystems
>>> x_n, u_kn, N_k, s_n = testsystems.HarmonicOscillatorsTestCase().sample()
We have the nsamples
sampled oscillator positions x_n
(with samples from all states concatenated), reduced potentials in the (nstates,nsamples)
matrix u_kn
, number of samples per state in the nsamples
array N_k
, and indices s_n
denoting which thermodynamic state each sample was drawn from.
To analyze this data, we first initialize the MBAR
object:
>>> mbar = MBAR(u_kn, N_k)
Estimating dimensionless free energy differences between the sampled thermodynamic states and their associated uncertainties (standard errors) simply requires a call to compute_free_energy_differences()
:
>>> results = mbar.compute_free_energy_differences()
Here results
is a dictionary with keys Deltaf_ij
, dDeltaf
, and Theta
. Deltaf_ij[i,j]
is the matrix of dimensionless free energy differences f_j - f_i
, dDeltaf_ij[i,j]
is the matrix of standard errors in this matrices estimate, and Theta
is a covariance matrix that can be used to propagate error into quantities derived from the free energies.
Expectations and associated uncertainties can easily be estimated for observables A(x)
for all states:
>>> A_kn = x_kn # use position of harmonic oscillator as observable
>>> results = mbar.compute_expectations(A_kn)
where results
is a dictionary with keys mu
, sigma
, and Theta
, where mu[i]
is the array of the estimate for the average of the observable for in state i, sigma[i]
is the estimated standard deviation of the mu
estimates, and Theta[i,j]
is the covariance matrix of the log weights.
See the docstring help for these individual methods for more information on exact usage; in Python or IPython, you can view the docstrings with help()
.
PyMBAR needs 64-bit floats to provide reliable answers. JAX by default uses 32-bit (Single) bitsize. PyMBAR will turn on JAX's 64-bit mode, which may cause issues with some separate uses of JAX in the same code as PyMBAR, such as existing Neural Network (NN) Models for machine learning.
- Kyle A. Beauchamp [email protected]
- John D. Chodera [email protected]
- Levi N. Naden [email protected]
- Michael R. Shirts [email protected]
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Please cite the original MBAR paper:
Shirts MR and Chodera JD. Statistically optimal analysis of samples from multiple equilibrium states. J. Chem. Phys. 129:124105 (2008). DOI
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Some timeseries algorithms can be found in the following reference:
Chodera JD, Swope WC, Pitera JW, Seok C, and Dill KA. Use of the weighted histogram analysis method for the analysis of simulated and parallel tempering simulations. J. Chem. Theor. Comput. 3(1):26-41 (2007). DOI
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The automatic equilibration detection method provided in
pymbar.timeseries.detectEquilibration()
is described here:Chodera JD. A simple method for automated equilibration detection in molecular simulations. J. Chem. Theor. Comput. 12:1799, 2016. DOI
pymbar
is free software and is licensed under the MIT license.
We would especially like to thank a large number of people for helping us identify issues
and ways to improve pymbar
, including Tommy Knotts, David Mobley, Himanshu Paliwal,
Zhiqiang Tan, Patrick Varilly, Todd Gingrich, Aaron Keys, Anna Schneider, Adrian Roitberg,
Nick Schafer, Thomas Speck, Troy van Voorhis, Gupreet Singh, Jason Wagoner, Gabriel Rocklin,
Yannick Spill, Ilya Chorny, Greg Bowman, Vincent Voelz, Peter Kasson, Dave Caplan, Sam Moors,
Carl Rogers, Josua Adelman, Javier Palacios, David Chandler, Andrew Jewett, Stefano Martiniani, and Antonia Mey.
alchemical-analysis.py
described in this publication has been relocated here.