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 …

Machine learning directed drug formulation development

P Bannigan, M Aldeghi, Z Bao, F Häse… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning (ML) has enabled ground-breaking advances in the healthcare
and pharmaceutical sectors, from improvements in cancer diagnosis, to the identification of …

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 …

MACE-OFF23: Transferable machine learning force fields for organic molecules

DP Kovács, JH Moore, NJ Browning, I Batatia… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
Classical empirical force fields have dominated biomolecular simulation for over 50 years.
Although widely used in drug discovery, crystal structure prediction, and biomolecular …

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

ASJS Mey, BK Allen, HEB Macdonald… - Living journal of …, 2020‏ - pmc.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 …

The maximal and current accuracy of rigorous protein-ligand binding free energy calculations

GA Ross, C Lu, G Scarabelli, SK Albanese… - Communications …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Computational techniques can speed up the identification of hits and accelerate the
development of candidate molecules for drug discovery. Among techniques for predicting …

Enhancing hit discovery in virtual screening through absolute protein–ligand binding free-energy calculations

W Chen, D Cui, SV Jerome, M Michino… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
In the hit identification stage of drug discovery, a diverse chemical space needs to be
explored to identify initial hits. Contrary to empirical scoring functions, absolute protein …

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 …

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 …

GROMACS in the cloud: A global supercomputer to speed up alchemical drug design

C Kutzner, C Kniep, A Cherian… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
We assess costs and efficiency of state-of-the-art high-performance cloud computing and
compare the results to traditional on-premises compute clusters. Our use case is atomistic …