End-point binding free energy calculation with MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA: strategies and applications in drug design

E Wang, H Sun, J Wang, Z Wang, H Liu… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanics Poisson–Boltzmann surface area (MM/PBSA) and molecular
mechanics generalized Born surface area (MM/GBSA) are arguably very popular methods …

The MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods to estimate ligand-binding affinities

S Genheden, U Ryde - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The molecular mechanics energies combined with the Poisson–Boltzmann or
generalized Born and surface area continuum solvation (MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA) methods …

Fast identification of possible drug treatment of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) through computational drug repurposing study

J Wang - Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2020 - ACS Publications
The recent outbreak of novel coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) calls for and welcomes
possible treatment strategies using drugs on the market. It is very efficient to apply computer …

Molecular dynamics simulations in drug discovery and pharmaceutical development

OMH Salo-Ahen, I Alanko, R Bhadane, AMJJ Bonvin… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly useful in the modern drug
development process. In this review, we give a broad overview of the current application …

Comprehensive evaluation of ten docking programs on a diverse set of protein–ligand complexes: the prediction accuracy of sampling power and scoring power

Z Wang, H Sun, X Yao, D Li, L Xu, Y Li… - Physical Chemistry …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
As one of the most popular computational approaches in modern structure-based drug
design, molecular docking can be used not only to identify the correct conformation of a …

Recent developments and applications of the MMPBSA method

C Wang, DA Greene, L **ao, R Qi… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The Molecular Mechanics Poisson-Boltzmann Surface Area (MMPBSA) approach has been
widely applied as an efficient and reliable free energy simulation method to model molecular …

Decoding the identification mechanism of an SAM-III Riboswitch on ligands through multiple independent Gaussian-accelerated molecular dynamics simulations

J Chen, Q Zeng, W Wang, H Sun… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
S-Adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM)-responsive riboswitches play a central role in the regulation
of bacterial gene expression at the level of transcription attenuation or translation inhibition …

Conformations of KRAS4B affected by its partner binding and G12C mutation: insights from GaMD trajectory-image transformation-based deep learning

J Chen, J Wang, W Yang, L Zhao… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Binding of partners and mutations highly affects the conformational dynamics of KRAS4B,
which is of significance for deeply understanding its function. Gaussian accelerated …

Dielectric continuum methods for quantum chemistry

JM Herbert - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This review describes the theory and implementation of implicit solvation models based on
continuum electrostatics. Within quantum chemistry this formalism is sometimes …

Empirical scoring functions for structure-based virtual screening: applications, critical aspects, and challenges

IA Guedes, FSS Pereira, LE Dardenne - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Structure-based virtual screening (VS) is a widely used approach that employs the
knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of the target of interest in the design of new …