Calculating structures and free energies of complex molecules: combining molecular mechanics and continuum models

PA Kollman, I Massova, C Reyes, B Kuhn… - Accounts of chemical …, 2000 - ACS Publications
A historical perspective on the application of molecular dynamics (MD) to biological
macromolecules is presented. Recent developments combining state-of-the-art force fields …

Theory and applications of the generalized Born solvation model in macromolecular simulations

V Tsui, DA Case - Biopolymers: Original Research on …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Generalized Born (GB) models provide an attractive way to include some thermodynamic
aspects of aqueous solvation into simulations that do not explicitly model the solvent …

OpenMM 4: a reusable, extensible, hardware independent library for high performance molecular simulation

P Eastman, MS Friedrichs, JD Chodera… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
OpenMM is a software toolkit for performing molecular simulations on a range of high
performance computing architectures. It is based on a layered architecture: the lower layers …

Fatty acid-binding proteins (FABPs) are intracellular carriers for Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD)

MW Elmes, M Kaczocha, WT Berger, KN Leung… - Journal of Biological …, 2015 - ASBMB
Δ 9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) occur naturally in marijuana
(Cannabis) and may be formulated, individually or in combination in pharmaceuticals such …

Development and testing of a general amber force field

J Wang, RM Wolf, JW Caldwell… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We describe here a general Amber force field (GAFF) for organic molecules. GAFF is
designed to be compatible with existing Amber force fields for proteins and nucleic acids …

Automatic atom type and bond type perception in molecular mechanical calculations

J Wang, W Wang, PA Kollman, DA Case - Journal of molecular graphics …, 2006 - Elsevier
In molecular mechanics (MM) studies, atom types and/or bond types of molecules are
needed to determine prior to energy calculations. We present here an automatic algorithm of …

How well does a restrained electrostatic potential (RESP) model perform in calculating conformational energies of organic and biological molecules?

J Wang, P Cieplak, PA Kollman - Journal of computational …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we present conformational energies for a molecular mechanical model
(Parm99) developed for organic and biological molecules using the restrained electrostatic …

GLYCAM06: a generalizable biomolecular force field. Carbohydrates

KN Kirschner, AB Yongye… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A new derivation of the GLYCAM06 force field, which removes its previous specificity for
carbohydrates, and its dependency on the AMBER force field and parameters, is presented …

Molecular docking

GM Morris, M Lim-Wilby - Molecular modeling of proteins, 2008 - Springer
Molecular docking is a key tool in structural molecular biology and computer-assisted drug
design. The goal of ligand—protein docking is to predict the predominant binding mode (s) …

Fast, efficient generation of high‐quality atomic charges. AM1‐BCC model: I. Method

A Jakalian, BL Bush, DB Jack… - Journal of computational …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
The AM1‐BCC method quickly and efficiently generates high‐quality atomic charges for use
in condensed‐phase simulations. The underlying features of the electron distribution …