About the Authors

Peter Eastman

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

peastman@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Jason Swails

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and BioMaPS Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

John D. Chodera

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Robert T. McGibbon

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Yutong Zhao

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Kyle A. Beauchamp

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Counsyl Research, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Lee-Ping Wang

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Andrew C. Simmonett

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Matthew P. Harrigan

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Chaya D. Stern

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Rafal P. Wiewiora

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Computational and Systems Biology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Chemical Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Bernard R. Brooks

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Vijay S. Pande

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: VSP is an SAB member of Schrödinger, LLC and a General Partner at Andreessen Horowtiz. JDC is an SAB member of Schrödinger, LLC. KAB is currently an employee of Counsyl, Inc.