Synthetic biology and computer-based frameworks for antimicrobial peptide discovery

MDT Torres, J Cao, OL Franco, TK Lu… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest challenges of our time. This global health problem
originated from a paucity of truly effective antibiotic classes and an increased incidence of …

Computer-aided drug design towards new psychotropic and neurological drugs

G Dorahy, JZ Chen, T Balle - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Central nervous system (CNS) disorders are a therapeutic area in drug discovery where
demand for new treatments greatly exceeds approved treatment options. This is complicated …

High-throughput identification and characterization of two-dimensional materials using density functional theory

K Choudhary, I Kalish, R Beams, F Tavazza - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We introduce a simple criterion to identify two-dimensional (2D) materials based on the
comparison between experimental lattice constants and lattice constants mainly obtained …

Alvascience: a new software suite for the QSAR workflow applied to the blood–brain barrier permeability

A Mauri, M Bertola - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) and quantitative structure–property
relationship (QSPR) are established techniques to relate endpoints to molecular features …

Elucidating the sorption mechanisms of environmental pollutants using molecular simulation

SZ Mousavi, HR Shadman, M Habibi… - Industrial & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
With the global expansion of industrial activities, the entry of various pollutants into the
environment has remained a serious issue. One of the best ways to remove these pollutants …

Synthetic control of exciton dynamics in bioinspired cofacial porphyrin dimers

PP Roy, S Kundu, J Valdiviezo, G Bullard… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Understanding how the complex interplay among excitonic interactions, vibronic couplings,
and reorganization energy determines coherence-enabled transport mechanisms is a grand …

Introduction to density functional theory: Calculations by hand on the helium atom

KA Baseden, JW Tye - Journal of chemical education, 2014 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory (DFT) is a type of electronic structure calculation that has rapidly
gained popularity. In this article, we provide a step-by-step demonstration of a DFT …

Chemoinformatics: Achievements and challenges, a personal view

J Gasteiger - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
Chemoinformatics provides computer methods for learning from chemical data and for
modeling tasks a chemist is facing. The field has evolved in the past 50 years and has …

SPARC: Accurate and efficient finite-difference formulation and parallel implementation of density functional theory: Isolated clusters

S Ghosh, P Suryanarayana - Computer Physics Communications, 2017 - Elsevier
As the first component of SPARC (Simulation Package for Ab-initio Real-space
Calculations), we present an accurate and efficient finite-difference formulation and parallel …

Hydrogen-bonded thiol undergoes unconventional excited-state intramolecular proton-transfer reactions

JK Wang, CH Wang, CC Wu, KH Chang… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The chapter on the thiol-related hydrogen bond (H-bond) and its excited-state intramolecular
proton-transfer (ESIPT) reaction was recently opened where compound 4′-diethylamino-3 …