The Electrolyte Genome project: A big data approach in battery materials discovery

X Qu, A Jain, NN Rajput, L Cheng, Y Zhang… - Computational Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
We present a high-throughput infrastructure for the automated calculation of molecular
properties with a focus on battery electrolytes. The infrastructure is largely open-source and …

Computing protein–protein association affinity with hybrid steered molecular dynamics

RA Rodriguez, L Yu, LY Chen - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Computing protein–protein association affinities is one of the fundamental challenges in
computational biophysics/biochemistry. The overwhelming amount of statistics in the phase …

Generalized born and explicit solvent models for free energy calculations in organic solvents: Cyclodextrin dimerization

H Zhang, T Tan, D Van der Spoel - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Evaluation of solvation (binding) free energies with implicit solvent models in different
dielectric environments for biological simulations as well as high throughput ligand …

First Principles Calculation of Protein–Protein Dimer Affinities of ALS-Associated SOD1 Mutants

SCC Hsueh, M Nijland, X Peng, B Hilton… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) is a 32 kDa homodimer that converts toxic oxygen
radicals in neurons to less harmful species. The dimerization of SOD1 is essential to the …

Hybrid steered molecular dynamics approach to computing absolute binding free energy of Ligand–Protein Complexes: A brute force approach that is fast and …

LY Chen - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2015 - ACS Publications
Computing the free energy of binding a ligand to a protein is a difficult task of essential
importance for which purpose various theoretical/computational approaches have been …

Computational studies of molecular permeation through connexin26 channels

Y Luo, AR Rossi, AL Harris - Biophysical journal, 2016 - cell.com
A signal property of connexin channels is the ability to mediate selective diffusive movement
of molecules through plasma membrane (s), but the energetics and determinants of …

Efficient and accurate binding free energy calculation of Aβ9–40 protofilament propagation

CV Frost, N Schwierz… - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembled aggregation of peptides and proteins into regular amyloid fibrils is
associated with several neurodegenerative diseases. In case of Alzheimer's disease …

[HTML][HTML] Computing the binding affinity of a ligand buried deep inside a protein with the hybrid steered molecular dynamics

OD Villarreal, L Yu, RA Rodriguez, LY Chen - Biochemical and biophysical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Computing the ligand-protein binding affinity (or the Gibbs free energy) with chemical
accuracy has long been a challenge for which many methods/approaches have been …

Efficient calculation of relative binding free energies by umbrella sampling perturbation

F Zeller, M Zacharias - Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
An important task of biomolecular simulation is the calculation of relative binding free
energies upon chemical modification of partner molecules in a biomolecular complex. The …

Protein–ligand interaction energy-based entropy calculations: Fundamental challenges for flexible systems

G Kohut, A Liwo, S Bősze… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Entropy calculations represent one of the most challenging steps in obtaining the binding
free energy in biomolecular systems. A novel computationally effective approach (IE) was …