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 …

Predicting binding free energies: frontiers and benchmarks

DL Mobley, MK Gilson - Annual review of biophysics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Binding free energy calculations based on molecular simulations provide predicted affinities
for biomolecular complexes. These calculations begin with a detailed description of a …

Ligand-binding affinity estimates supported by quantum-mechanical methods

U Ryde, P Soderhjelm - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
One of the largest challenges of computational chemistry is calculation of accurate free
energies for the binding of a small molecule to a biological macromolecule, which has …

Overview of the SAMPL5 host–guest challenge: Are we doing better?

J Yin, NM Henriksen, DR Slochower, MR Shirts… - Journal of computer …, 2017 - Springer
The ability to computationally predict protein-small molecule binding affinities with high
accuracy would accelerate drug discovery and reduce its cost by eliminating rounds of trial …

Overview of the SAMPL6 host–guest binding affinity prediction challenge

A Rizzi, S Murkli, JN McNeill, W Yao, M Sullivan… - Journal of computer …, 2018 - Springer
Accurately predicting the binding affinities of small organic molecules to biological
macromolecules can greatly accelerate drug discovery by reducing the number of …

A general picture of cucurbit [8] uril host–guest binding

Z Sun, Z Huai, Q He, Z Liu - Journal of chemical information and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Describing, understanding, and designing complex interaction networks within
macromolecular systems remain challenging in modern chemical research. Host–guest …

The SAMPL4 host–guest blind prediction challenge: an overview

HS Muddana, AT Fenley, DL Mobley… - Journal of computer-aided …, 2014 - Springer
Prospective validation of methods for computing binding affinities can help assess their
predictive power and thus set reasonable expectations for their performance in drug design …

On the use of interaction entropy and related methods to estimate binding entropies

V Ekberg, U Ryde - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2021 - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanics combined with Poisson–Boltzmann or generalized Born and solvent-
accessible area solvation energies (MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA) are popular methods to …

Using dispersion-corrected density functional theory to understand supramolecular binding thermodynamics

J Antony, R Sure, S Grimme - Chemical Communications, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A recently published theoretical approach employing a nondynamic structure model using
dispersion-corrected density functional theory (DFT-D3) to calculate equilibrium free …