Thermodynamics and kinetics of drug-target binding by molecular simulation

S Decherchi, A Cavalli - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Computational studies play an increasingly important role in chemistry and biophysics,
mainly thanks to improvements in hardware and algorithms. In drug discovery and …

[HTML][HTML] Best practices for alchemical free energy calculations [article v1. 0]

ASJS Mey, BK Allen, HEB Macdonald… - Living journal of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alchemical free energy calculations are a useful tool for predicting free energy differences
associated with the transfer of molecules from one environment to another. The hallmark of …

Alchemical binding free energy calculations in AMBER20: Advances and best practices for drug discovery

TS Lee, BK Allen, TJ Giese, Z Guo, P Li… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Predicting protein–ligand binding affinities and the associated thermodynamics of
biomolecular recognition is a primary objective of structure-based drug design. Alchemical …

Accelerating AutoDock4 with GPUs and Gradient-Based Local Search

D Santos-Martins, L Solis-Vasquez… - Journal of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
AutoDock4 is a widely used program for docking small molecules to macromolecular targets.
It describes ligand–receptor interactions using a physics-inspired scoring function that has …

Large-scale assessment of binding free energy calculations in active drug discovery projects

CEM Schindler, H Baumann, A Blum… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Accurate ranking of compounds with regards to their binding affinity to a protein using
computational methods is of great interest to pharmaceutical research. Physics-based free …

The emerging role of computational design in peptide macrocycle drug discovery

VK Mulligan - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Drug discovery is a laborious process with rising cost per new drug. Peptide macrocycles
are promising therapeutics, though conformational flexibility can reduce target affinity and …

Accelerating autodock vina with gpus

S Tang, R Chen, M Lin, Q Lin, Y Zhu, J Ding, H Hu… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
AutoDock Vina is one of the most popular molecular docking tools. In the latest benchmark
CASF-2016 for comparative assessment of scoring functions, AutoDock Vina won the best …

ACES: optimized alchemically enhanced sampling

TS Lee, HC Tsai, A Ganguly… - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present an alchemical enhanced sampling (ACES) method implemented in the GPU-
accelerated AMBER free energy MD engine. The methods hinges on the creation of an …

AMBER free energy tools: a new framework for the design of optimized alchemical transformation pathways

HC Tsai, TS Lee, A Ganguly, TJ Giese… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We develop a framework for the design of optimized alchemical transformation pathways in
free energy simulations using nonlinear mixing and a new functional form for so-called …

Simple adjustment of intranucleotide base-phosphate interaction in the ol3 amber force field improves RNA simulations

V Mlynsky, P Kuhrova, P Stadlbauer… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations represent an established tool to study RNA
molecules. The outcome of MD studies depends, however, on the quality of the force field …