Relative binding free energy calculations in drug discovery: recent advances and practical considerations

Z Cournia, B Allen, W Sherman - Journal of chemical information …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Accurate in silico prediction of protein–ligand binding affinities has been a primary objective
of structure-based drug design for decades due to the putative value it would bring to the …

An overview of molecular modeling for drug discovery with specific illustrative examples of applications

M Aminpour, C Montemagno, JA Tuszynski - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this paper we review the current status of high-performance computing applications in the
general area of drug discovery. We provide an introduction to the methodologies applied at …

KDEEP: Protein–Ligand Absolute Binding Affinity Prediction via 3D-Convolutional Neural Networks

J Jiménez, M Skalic, G Martinez-Rosell… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Accurately predicting protein–ligand binding affinities is an important problem in
computational chemistry since it can substantially accelerate drug discovery for virtual …

[HTML][HTML] Best practices for alchemical free energy calculations [article v1. 0]

ASJS Mey, BK Allen, HEB Macdonald… - Living journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alchemical free energy calculations are a useful tool for predicting free energy differences
associated with the transfer of molecules from one environment to another. The hallmark of …

Large scale relative protein ligand binding affinities using non-equilibrium alchemy

V Gapsys, L Pérez-Benito, M Aldeghi, D Seeliger… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Ligand binding affinity calculations based on molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and non-
physical (alchemical) thermodynamic cycles have shown great promise for structure-based …

Assessing the performance of MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 7. Entropy effects on the performance of end-point binding free energy calculation approaches

H Sun, L Duan, F Chen, H Liu, Z Wang, P Pan… - Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Entropy effects play an important role in drug–target interactions, but the entropic
contribution to ligand-binding affinity is often neglected by end-point binding free energy …

D3R Grand Challenge 2: blind prediction of protein–ligand poses, affinity rankings, and relative binding free energies

Z Gaieb, S Liu, S Gathiaka, M Chiu, H Yang… - Journal of computer …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The Drug Design Data Resource (D3R) ran Grand Challenge 2 (GC2) from
September 2016 through February 2017. This challenge was based on a dataset of …

Alchemical absolute protein–ligand binding free energies for drug design

Y Khalak, G Tresadern, M Aldeghi, HM Baumann… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The recent advances in relative protein–ligand binding free energy calculations have shown
the value of alchemical methods in drug discovery. Accurately assessing absolute binding …

Evolution of alchemical free energy methods in drug discovery

LF Song, KM Merz Jr - Journal of Chemical Information and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The goal of the present manuscript is to succinctly trace the key technological steps in the
evolution of alchemical free energy methods (AFEMs) from a purely theoretical construct to a …

The maximal and current accuracy of rigorous protein-ligand binding free energy calculations

GA Ross, C Lu, G Scarabelli, SK Albanese… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Computational techniques can speed up the identification of hits and accelerate the
development of candidate molecules for drug discovery. Among techniques for predicting …