Computational methods in drug discovery

G Sliwoski, S Kothiwale, J Meiler, EW Lowe Jr - Pharmacological reviews, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Computer-aided drug discovery/design methods have played a major role in the
development of therapeutically important small molecules for over three decades. These …

De novo protein design, a retrospective

IV Korendovych, WF DeGrado - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2020‏ - cambridge.org
Proteins are molecular machines whose function depends on their ability to achieve
complex folds with precisely defined structural and dynamic properties. The rational design …

ff14SB: improving the accuracy of protein side chain and backbone parameters from ff99SB

JA Maier, C Martinez, K Kasavajhala… - Journal of chemical …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanics is powerful for its speed in atomistic simulations, but an accurate force
field is required. The Amber ff99SB force field improved protein secondary structure balance …

AutoDockFR: Advances in Protein-Ligand Docking with Explicitly Specified Binding Site Flexibility

PA Ravindranath, S Forli, DS Goodsell… - PLoS computational …, 2015‏ - journals.plos.org
Automated docking of drug-like molecules into receptors is an essential tool in structure-
based drug design. While modeling receptor flexibility is important for correctly predicting …

Protein backbone and sidechain torsion angles predicted from NMR chemical shifts using artificial neural networks

Y Shen, A Bax - Journal of biomolecular NMR, 2013‏ - Springer
Abstract A new program, TALOS-N, is introduced for predicting protein backbone torsion
angles from NMR chemical shifts. The program relies far more extensively on the use of …

All-Atom Empirical Potential for Molecular Modeling and Dynamics Studies of Proteins

AD MacKerell Jr, D Bashford, M Bellott… - The journal of …, 1998‏ - ACS Publications
New protein parameters are reported for the all-atom empirical energy function in the
CHARMM program. The parameter evaluation was based on a self-consistent approach …

Development and testing of the OPLS all-atom force field on conformational energetics and properties of organic liquids

WL Jorgensen, DS Maxwell… - Journal of the american …, 1996‏ - ACS Publications
The parametrization and testing of the OPLS all-atom force field for organic molecules and
peptides are described. Parameters for both torsional and nonbonded energetics have been …

A smoothed backbone-dependent rotamer library for proteins derived from adaptive kernel density estimates and regressions

MV Shapovalov, RL Dunbrack - Structure, 2011‏ - cell.com
Rotamer libraries are used in protein structure determination, prediction, and design. The
backbone-dependent rotamer library consists of rotamer frequencies, mean dihedral angles …

Improved prediction of protein side‐chain conformations with SCWRL4

GG Krivov, MV Shapovalov… - … Structure, Function, and …, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Determination of side-chain conformations is an important step in protein structure prediction
and protein design. Many such methods have been presented, although only a small …

The penultimate rotamer library

SC Lovell, JM Word, JS Richardson… - Proteins: Structure …, 2000‏ - Wiley Online Library
All published rotamer libraries contain some rotamers that exhibit impossible internal atomic
overlaps if built in ideal geometry with all hydrogen atoms. Removal of uncertain residues …