Predicting binding free energies: frontiers and benchmarks

DL Mobley, MK Gilson - Annual review of biophysics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Binding free energy calculations based on molecular simulations provide predicted affinities
for biomolecular complexes. These calculations begin with a detailed description of a …

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 …

Development and benchmarking of open force field 2.0. 0: the Sage small molecule force field

S Boothroyd, PK Behara, OC Madin… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We introduce the Open Force Field (OpenFF) 2.0. 0 small molecule force field for drug-like
molecules, code-named Sage, which builds upon our previous iteration, Parsley. OpenFF …

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 …

Free energy methods in drug design: prospects of “alchemical perturbation” in medicinal chemistry: miniperspective

BJ Williams-Noonan, E Yuriev… - Journal of medicinal …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Underpinning all drug discovery projects is the interaction between a drug and its target,
usually a protein. Thus, improved methods for predicting the magnitude of protein–ligand …

Biomolecular force field parameterization via atoms-in-molecule electron density partitioning

DJ Cole, JZ Vilseck, J Tirado-Rives… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanics force fields, which are commonly used in biomolecular modeling and
computer-aided drug design, typically treat nonbonded interactions using a limited library of …

Transferable machine learning interatomic potential for bond dissociation energy prediction of drug-like molecules

E Gelzinyte, M Öeren, MD Segall… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present a transferable MACE interatomic potential that is applicable to open-and closed-
shell drug-like molecules containing hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen atoms. Including an …

Current tools and methods in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for drug design

M Hernández-Rodríguez… - Current medicinal …, 2016 - benthamdirect.com
Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations is a computational method that employs Newton's
laws to evaluate the motions of water, ions, small molecules, and macromolecules or more …

Applications of large-scale density functional theory in biology

DJ Cole, NDM Hine - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Density functional theory (DFT) has become a routine tool for the computation of electronic
structure in the physics, materials and chemistry fields. Yet the application of traditional DFT …

Predicting binding free energy change caused by point mutations with knowledge-modified MM/PBSA method

M Petukh, M Li, E Alexov - PLoS computational biology, 2015 - journals.plos.org
A new methodology termed Single Amino Acid Mutation based change in Binding free
Energy (SAAMBE) was developed to predict the changes of the binding free energy caused …