Molecular dynamics simulation for all

SA Hollingsworth, RO Dror - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
The impact of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in molecular biology and drug discovery
has expanded dramatically in recent years. These simulations capture the behavior of …

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 …

[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 …

In silico methods and tools for drug discovery

B Shaker, S Ahmad, J Lee, C Jung, D Na - Computers in biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past, conventional drug discovery strategies have been successfully employed to
develop new drugs, but the process from lead identification to clinical trials takes more than …

Insights into protein–ligand interactions: mechanisms, models, and methods

X Du, Y Li, YL **a, SM Ai, J Liang, P Sang… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Molecular recognition, which is the process of biological macromolecules interacting with
each other or various small molecules with a high specificity and affinity to form a specific …

[HTML][HTML] A fast and high-quality charge model for the next generation general AMBER force field

X He, VH Man, W Yang, TS Lee, J Wang - The Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The General AMBER Force Field (GAFF) has been broadly used by researchers all over the
world to perform in silico simulations and modelings on diverse scientific topics, especially in …

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 …

Improved peptide and protein torsional energetics with the OPLS-AA force field

MJ Robertson, J Tirado-Rives… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The development and validation of new peptide dihedral parameters are reported for the
OPLS-AA force field. High accuracy quantum chemical methods were used to scan φ, ψ, χ1 …

Molecular dynamics simulations and drug discovery

JD Durrant, JA McCammon - BMC biology, 2011 - Springer
This review discusses the many roles atomistic computer simulations of macromolecular (for
example, protein) receptors and their associated small-molecule ligands can play in drug …