[HTML][HTML] The variational quantum eigensolver: a review of methods and best practices

J Tilly, H Chen, S Cao, D Picozzi, K Setia, Y Li, E Grant… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The variational quantum eigensolver (or VQE), first developed by Peruzzo et al.(2014), has
received significant attention from the research community in recent years. It uses the …

Molecular dynamics simulations in drug discovery and pharmaceutical development

OMH Salo-Ahen, I Alanko, R Bhadane, AMJJ Bonvin… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly useful in the modern drug
development process. In this review, we give a broad overview of the current application …

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 …

Best practices for alchemical free energy calculations

ASJS Mey, B Allen, HEB Macdonald… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
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 …

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 …

Application of computational biology and artificial intelligence in drug design

Y Zhang, M Luo, P Wu, S Wu, TY Lee, C Bai - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Traditional drug design requires a great amount of research time and developmental
expense. Booming computational approaches, including computational biology, computer …

Merging ligand-based and structure-based methods in drug discovery: An overview of combined virtual screening approaches

J Vázquez, M López, E Gibert, E Herrero, FJ Luque - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Virtual screening (VS) is an outstanding cornerstone in the drug discovery pipeline. A variety
of computational approaches, which are generally classified as ligand-based (LB) and …

Learning characteristics of graph neural networks predicting protein–ligand affinities

A Mastropietro, G Pasculli, J Bajorath - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2023 - nature.com
In drug design, compound potency prediction is a popular machine learning application.
Graph neural networks (GNNs) predict ligand affinity from graph representations of protein …

Rapid, accurate, precise and reproducible ligand–protein binding free energy prediction

S Wan, AP Bhati, SJ Zasada… - Interface …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A central quantity of interest in molecular biology and medicine is the free energy of binding
of a molecule to a target biomacromolecule. Until recently, the accurate prediction of binding …

An overview of molecular modeling for drug discovery with specific illustrative examples of applications

M Aminpour, C Montemagno, JA Tuszynski - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this paper we review the current status of high-performance computing applications in the
general area of drug discovery. We provide an introduction to the methodologies applied at …