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 …

OpenMM 7: Rapid development of high performance algorithms for molecular dynamics

P Eastman, J Swails, JD Chodera… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
OpenMM is a molecular dynamics simulation toolkit with a unique focus on extensibility. It
allows users to easily add new features, including forces with novel functional forms, new …

Biomolecular simulations: From dynamics and mechanisms to computational assays of biological activity

DJ Huggins, PC Biggin, MA Dämgen… - Wiley …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Biomolecular simulation is increasingly central to understanding and designing biological
molecules and their interactions. Detailed, physics‐based simulation methods are …

Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of liquid water using high quality meta-GGA functionals

LR Pestana, N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We have used ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) to characterize water properties using
two meta-generalized gradient approximation (meta-GGA) functionals, M06-L-D3 and B97M …

Non-covalent interactions from a Quantum Chemical Topology perspective

PLA Popelier - Journal of molecular modeling, 2022 - Springer
About half a century after its little-known beginnings, the quantum topological approach
called QTAIM has grown into a widespread, but still not mainstream, methodology of …

Fluctuations of electric fields in the active site of the enzyme ketosteroid isomerase

VV Welborn, T Head-Gordon - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We report the effect of conformational dynamics on the fluctuations of electric fields in the
active site of the enzyme ketosteroid isomerase (KSI). While KSI is considered to be a rigid …

[HTML][HTML] Learning pair potentials using differentiable simulations

W Wang, Z Wu, JCB Dietschreit… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Learning pair interactions from experimental or simulation data is of great interest for
molecular simulations. We propose a general stochastic method for learning pair …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective: Computational chemistry software and its advancement as illustrated through three grand challenge cases for molecular science

A Krylov, TL Windus, T Barnes… - The Journal of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The field of computational molecular sciences (CMSs) has made innumerable contributions
to the understanding of the molecular phenomena that underlie and control chemical …

Computational optimization of electric fields for improving catalysis of a designed Kemp eliminase

V Vaissier, SC Sharma, K Schaettle, T Zhang… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Here we report a computational method to improve efficiency of a de novo designed Kemp
eliminase enzyme KE15, by identifying mutations that enhance electric fields and chemical …