New developments in force fields for biomolecular simulations

PS Nerenberg, T Head-Gordon - Current opinion in structural biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Biomolecular force fields (FFs) have progressed rapidly in the past five
years.•Fixed-charge FF accuracy has improved, but challenges remain for complex …

LigParGen web server: an automatic OPLS-AA parameter generator for organic ligands

LS Dodda, I Cabeza de Vaca… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The accurate calculation of protein/nucleic acid–ligand interactions or condensed phase
properties by force field-based methods require a precise description of the energetics of …

[HTML][HTML] A fast and high-quality charge model for the next generation general AMBER force field

X He, VH Man, W Yang, TS Lee, J Wang - The Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The General AMBER Force Field (GAFF) has been broadly used by researchers all over the
world to perform in silico simulations and modelings on diverse scientific topics, especially in …

1.14* CM1A-LBCC: localized bond-charge corrected CM1A charges for condensed-phase simulations

LS Dodda, JZ Vilseck, J Tirado-Rives… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The quality of the 1.14* CM1A and 1.20* CM5 charge models was evaluated for calculations
of free energies of hydration. For a set of 426 neutral molecules, 1.14* CM1A and 1.20* CM5 …

Bi2O3 Nanosheets Grown on Carbon Nanofiber with Inherent Hydrophobicity for High-Performance CO2 Electroreduction in a Wide Potential Window

SQ Liu, E Shahini, MR Gao, L Gong, PF Sui, T Tang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The ever-increasing concern for adverse climate changes has propelled worldwide research
on the reduction of CO2 emission. In this regard, CO2 electroreduction (CER) to formate is …

Molecular insights into the synergistic mechanisms of hybrid CO2-surfactant thermal systems at heavy oil-water interfaces

N Lu, X Dong, H Liu, Z Chen, W Xu, D Zeng - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
A hybrid thermal recovery process is a promising EOR (Enhanced Oil Recovery) method
and has been widely applied to post-steamed heavy oil reservoirs. Due to the complexity of …

QUBEKit: Automating the derivation of force field parameters from quantum mechanics

JT Horton, AEA Allen, LS Dodda… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Modern molecular mechanics force fields are widely used for modeling the dynamics and
interactions of small organic molecules using libraries of transferable force field parameters …

Biomolecular force field parameterization via atoms-in-molecule electron density partitioning

DJ Cole, JZ Vilseck, J Tirado-Rives… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanics force fields, which are commonly used in biomolecular modeling and
computer-aided drug design, typically treat nonbonded interactions using a limited library of …

Q-Force: Quantum mechanically augmented molecular force fields

S Sami, MFSJ Menger, S Faraji, R Broer… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The quality of molecular dynamics simulations strongly depends on the accuracy of the
underlying force fields (FFs) that determine all intra-and intermolecular interactions of the …

Molecular investigation of the self-assembly mechanism underlying polydopamine coatings: the synergistic effect of typical building blocks acting on interfacial …

X Li, C Wu, J Wu, R Sun, B Hou, C Liu… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polydopamine (PDA) is well known as a mussel-inspired adhesive material composed of
oligomeric heteropolymers. However, the conventional eumelanin-like structural assumption …