DREIDING: a generic force field for molecular simulations

SL Mayo, BD Olafson, WA Goddard - Journal of Physical …, 1990 - ACS Publications
A great deal of progress has been made over the last two decades in developing force fields
suitablefor predicting the structures and dynamics of molecules. Examples include the …

CHARMM general force field: A force field for drug‐like molecules compatible with the CHARMM all‐atom additive biological force fields

K Vanommeslaeghe, E Hatcher… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The widely used CHARMM additive all‐atom force field includes parameters for proteins,
nucleic acids, lipids, and carbohydrates. In the present article, an extension of the CHARMM …

FFParam: Standalone package for CHARMM additive and Drude polarizable force field parametrization of small molecules

A Kumar, O Yoluk… - Journal of computational …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate force‐field (FF) parameters are key to reliable prediction of properties obtained
from molecular modeling (MM) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. With ever …

Development of force field parameters for the simulation of single-and double-stranded DNA molecules and DNA–protein complexes

MR Tucker, S Piana, D Tan, MV LeVine… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Although molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been used extensively to study the
structural dynamics of proteins, the role of MD simulation in studies of nucleic acid based …

Combination of the CHARMM27 force field with united‐atom lipid force fields

N Sapay, DP Tieleman - Journal of computational chemistry, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Computer simulations offer a valuable way to study membrane systems, from simple lipid
bilayers to large transmembrane protein complexes and lipid‐nucleic acid complexes for …

New tricks for old dogs: improving the accuracy of biomolecular force fields by pair-specific corrections to non-bonded interactions

J Yoo, A Aksimentiev - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In contrast to ordinary polymers, the vast majority of biological macromolecules adopt highly
ordered three-dimensional structures that define their functions. The key to folding of a …

Polarisable force fields: what do they add in biomolecular simulations?

VSS Inakollu, DP Geerke, CN Rowley, H Yu - Current Opinion in Structural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Induced polarisation is an essential component of biomolecular interactions like
cation-pi, hydrogen bonding, and ionic interactions.•Advances in simulation algorithms and …

CHARMM36 all‐atom additive protein force field: Validation based on comparison to NMR data

J Huang, AD MacKerell Jr - Journal of computational chemistry, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Protein structure and dynamics can be characterized on the atomistic level with both nuclear
magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Here …

[HTML][HTML] The good, the bad and the user in soft matter simulations

J Wong-Ekkabut, M Karttunen - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2016 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become popular in materials science,
biochemistry, biophysics and several other fields. Improvements in computational resources …

Best practices in constant pH MD simulations: accuracy and sampling

P Buslaev, N Aho, A Jansen, P Bauer… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Various approaches have been proposed to include the effect of pH in molecular dynamics
(MD) simulations. Among these, the λ-dynamics approach proposed by Brooks and co …