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quicksom: Self-Organizing Maps on GPUs for clustering of molecular dynamics trajectories

Vincent Mallet, Michaël Nilges, Guillaume Bouvier

2020Bioinformatics16 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

SUMMARY: We implemented the Self-Organizing Maps algorithm running efficiently on GPUs, and also provide several clustering methods of the resulting maps. We provide scripts and a use case to cluster macro-molecular conformations generated by molecular dynamics simulations. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The method is available on GitHub and distributed as a pip package.

Topics & Concepts

Computer scienceCluster analysisScripting languageCluster (spacecraft)Molecular dynamicsMacroComputational scienceR packageDynamics (music)Parallel computingTheoretical computer scienceArtificial intelligenceProgramming languageChemistryComputational chemistryPhysicsAcousticsProtein Structure and DynamicsMachine Learning in Materials ScienceTheoretical and Computational Physics