Molecular dynamics simulations in drug discovery and pharmaceutical development

OMH Salo-Ahen, I Alanko, R Bhadane, AMJJ Bonvin… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly useful in the modern drug
development process. In this review, we give a broad overview of the current application …

Relative binding free energy calculations in drug discovery: recent advances and practical considerations

Z Cournia, B Allen, W Sherman - Journal of chemical information …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Accurate in silico prediction of protein–ligand binding affinities has been a primary objective
of structure-based drug design for decades due to the putative value it would bring to the …

Halogenated Zn2+ Solvation Structure for Reversible Zn Metal Batteries

Q Zhang, Y Ma, Y Lu, Y Ni, L Lin, Z Hao… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Rechargeable aqueous Zn metal batteries have become promising candidates for large-
scale electrochemical energy storage owing to their high safety and affordable low cost …

Coordination modulation of hydrated zinc ions to enhance redox reversibility of zinc batteries

S Chen, D Ji, Q Chen, J Ma, S Hou, J Zhang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The dendrite growth of zinc and the side reactions including hydrogen evolution often
degrade performances of zinc-based batteries. These issues are closely related to the …

Efficient evaluation of electrostatic potential with computerized optimized code

J Zhang, T Lu - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The evaluation of molecular electrostatic potential (ESP) is a performance bottleneck for
many computational chemical tasks like restrained ESP charge fitting or quantum …

Modulating electrolyte structure for ultralow temperature aqueous zinc batteries

Q Zhang, Y Ma, Y Lu, L Li, F Wan, K Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Rechargeable aqueous batteries are an up-and-coming system for potential large-scale
energy storage due to their high safety and low cost. However, the freeze of aqueous …

Learning functional properties of proteins with language models

S Unsal, H Atas, M Albayrak, K Turhan… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Data-centric approaches have been used to develop predictive methods for elucidating
uncharacterized properties of proteins; however, studies indicate that these methods should …

Diffusion-based molecule generation with informative prior bridges

L Wu, C Gong, X Liu, M Ye… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
AI-based molecule generation provides a promising approach to a large area of biomedical
sciences and engineering, such as antibody design, hydrolase engineering, or vaccine …

[HTML][HTML] The SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein is dynamic, disordered, and phase separates with RNA

J Cubuk, JJ Alston, JJ Incicco, S Singh… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) protein is an abundant RNA-binding protein
critical for viral genome packaging, yet the molecular details that underlie this process are …

ff19SB: amino-acid-specific protein backbone parameters trained against quantum mechanics energy surfaces in solution

C Tian, K Kasavajhala, KAA Belfon… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly popular in studying the
motions and functions of biomolecules. The accuracy of the simulation, however, is highly …