Modern alchemical free energy methods for drug discovery explained

DM York - ACS Physical Chemistry Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
This Perspective provides a contextual explanation of the current state-of-the-art alchemical
free energy methods and their role in drug discovery as well as highlights select emerging …

Recent advances in alchemical binding free energy calculations for drug discovery

I Muegge, Y Hu - ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Rigorous physics-based methods to calculate binding free energies of protein–ligand
complexes have become a valued component of structure-based drug design. Relative and …

AmberTools

DA Case, HM Aktulga, K Belfon… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
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[HTML][HTML] DeePMD-kit v2: A software package for deep potential models

J Zeng, D Zhang, D Lu, P Mo, Z Li, Y Chen… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
DeePMD-kit is a powerful open-source software package that facilitates molecular dynamics
simulations using machine learning potentials known as Deep Potential (DP) models. This …

Software infrastructure for next-generation QM/MM− ΔMLP force fields

TJ Giese, J Zeng, L Lerew, E McCarthy… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We present software infrastructure for the design and testing of new quantum
mechanical/molecular mechanical and machine-learning potential (QM/MM− ΔMLP) force …

Understanding the impact of binding free energy and kinetics calculations in modern drug discovery

VA Adediwura, K Koirala, HN Do, J Wang… - Expert Opinion on Drug …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction For rational drug design, it is crucial to understand the receptor-drug binding
processes and mechanisms. A new era for the use of computer simulations in predicting …

AMBER drug discovery boost tools: Automated workflow for production free-energy simulation setup and analysis (ProFESSA)

A Ganguly, HC Tsai, M Fernández-Pendás… - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report an automated workflow for production free-energy simulation setup and analysis
(ProFESSA) using the GPU-accelerated AMBER free-energy engine with enhanced …

Current state of open source force fields in protein–ligand binding affinity predictions

DF Hahn, V Gapsys, BL de Groot… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In drug discovery, the in silico prediction of binding affinity is one of the major means to
prioritize compounds for synthesis. Alchemical relative binding free energy (RBFE) …

Alchemical Enhanced Sampling with Optimized Phase Space Overlap

S Zhang, TJ Giese, TS Lee… - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2024 - ACS Publications
An alchemical enhanced sampling (ACES) method has recently been introduced to facilitate
importance sampling in free energy simulations. The method achieves enhanced sampling …

Catalytic mechanism and pH dependence of a methyltransferase ribozyme (MTR1) from computational enzymology

E McCarthy, Ş Ekesan, TJ Giese, TJ Wilson… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
A methyltransferase ribozyme (MTR1) was selected in vitro to catalyze alkyl transfer from
exogenous O 6-methylguanine (O 6mG) to a target adenine N1, and recently, high …