Enhanced sampling methods for molecular dynamics simulations

J Hénin, T Lelièvre, MR Shirts, O Valsson… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Enhanced sampling algorithms have emerged as powerful methods to extend the utility of
molecular dynamics simulations and allow the sampling of larger portions of the …

Jaguar: A high‐performance quantum chemistry software program with strengths in life and materials sciences

AD Bochevarov, E Harder, TF Hughes… - … Journal of Quantum …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Jaguar is an ab initio quantum chemical program that specializes in fast electronic structure
predictions for molecular systems of medium and large size. Jaguar focuses on …

[HTML][HTML] Scalable molecular dynamics on CPU and GPU architectures with NAMD

JC Phillips, DJ Hardy, JDC Maia, JE Stone… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
NAMD is a molecular dynamics program designed for high-performance simulations of very
large biological objects on CPU-and GPU-based architectures. NAMD offers scalable …

Role of molecular dynamics and related methods in drug discovery

M De Vivo, M Masetti, G Bottegoni… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) and related methods are close to becoming routine computational
tools for drug discovery. Their main advantage is in explicitly treating structural flexibility and …

Accurate and reliable prediction of relative ligand binding potency in prospective drug discovery by way of a modern free-energy calculation protocol and force field

L Wang, Y Wu, Y Deng, B Kim, L Pierce… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Designing tight-binding ligands is a primary objective of small-molecule drug discovery.
Over the past few decades, free-energy calculations have benefited from improved force …

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 …

α-Synuclein phosphorylation at serine 129 occurs after initial protein deposition and inhibits seeded fibril formation and toxicity

SS Ghanem, NK Majbour, NN Vaikath… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
α-Synuclein (α-syn) phosphorylation at serine 129 (pS129–α-syn) is substantially increased
in Lewy body disease, such as Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies …

RNA structural dynamics as captured by molecular simulations: a comprehensive overview

J Sponer, G Bussi, M Krepl, P Banáš, S Bottaro… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
With both catalytic and genetic functions, ribonucleic acid (RNA) is perhaps the most
pluripotent chemical species in molecular biology, and its functions are intimately linked to …

GPU-accelerated molecular dynamics and free energy methods in Amber18: performance enhancements and new features

TS Lee, DS Cerutti, D Mermelstein, C Lin… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We report progress in graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated molecular dynamics and
free energy methods in Amber18. Of particular interest is the development of alchemical free …

Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics: Principles and applications

J Wang, PR Arantes, A Bhattarai… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) is a robust computational method for
simultaneous unconstrained enhanced sampling and free energy calculations of …