RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Learning Free Energy Pathways through Reinforcement Learning of Adaptive Steered Molecular Dynamics JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 2022.10.04.510845 DO 10.1101/2022.10.04.510845 A1 Ho, Nicholas A1 Cava, John Kevin A1 Vant, John A1 Shukla, Ankita A1 Miratsky, Jake A1 Turaga, Pavan A1 Maciejewski, Ross A1 Singharoy, Abhishek YR 2022 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/10/05/2022.10.04.510845.abstract AB In this paper, we develop a formulation to utilize reinforcement learning and sampling-based robotics planning to derive low free energy transition pathways between two known states. Our formulation uses Jarzynski’s equality and the stiffspring approximation to obtain point estimates of energy, and construct an informed path search with atomistic resolution. At the core of this framework, is our first ever attempt we use a policy driven adaptive steered molecular dynamics (SMD) to control our molecular dynamics simulations. We show that both the reinforcement learning and robotics planning realization of the RL-guided framework can solve for pathways on toy analytical surfaces and alanine dipeptide.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.