[HTML][HTML] Recent developments and applications of the MMPBSA method

C Wang, DA Greene, L Xiao, R Qi… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The Molecular Mechanics Poisson-Boltzmann Surface Area (MMPBSA) approach has been
widely applied as an efficient and reliable free energy simulation method to model molecular …

Practical aspects of free-energy calculations: a review

N Hansen, WF Van Gunsteren - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Free-energy calculations in the framework of classical molecular dynamics simulations are
nowadays used in a wide range of research areas including solvation thermodynamics …

Automated topology builder version 3.0: Prediction of solvation free enthalpies in water and hexane

M Stroet, B Caron, KM Visscher… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The ability of atomic interaction parameters generated using the Automated Topology
Builder and Repository version 3.0 (ATB3. 0) to predict experimental hydration free …

FreeSolv: a database of experimental and calculated hydration free energies, with input files

DL Mobley, JP Guthrie - Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 2014 - Springer
This work provides a curated database of experimental and calculated hydration free
energies for small neutral molecules in water, along with molecular structures, input files …

Prediction of absolute solvation free energies using molecular dynamics free energy perturbation and the OPLS force field

D Shivakumar, J Williams, Y Wu, W Damm… - Journal of chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
The accurate prediction of protein− ligand binding free energies is a primary objective in
computer-aided drug design. The solvation free energy of a small molecule provides a …

Comparison of implicit and explicit solvent models for the calculation of solvation free energy in organic solvents

J Zhang, H Zhang, T Wu, Q Wang… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Quantitative prediction of physical properties of liquids is important for many applications.
Computational methods based on either explicit or implicit solvent models can be used to …

Water models for biomolecular simulations

AV Onufriev, S Izadi - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Modern simulation and modeling approaches to investigation of biomolecular structure and
function rely heavily on a variety of methods—water models—to approximate the influence …

Computations of standard binding free energies with molecular dynamics simulations

Y Deng, B Roux - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2009 - ACS Publications
An increasing number of studies have reported computations of the standard (absolute)
binding free energy of small ligands to proteins using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations …

Calculating protein–ligand binding affinities with MMPBSA: Method and error analysis

C Wang, PH Nguyen, K Pham, D Huynh… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular Mechanics Poisson–Boltzmann Surface Area (MMPBSA) methods have become
widely adopted in estimating protein–ligand binding affinities due to their efficiency and high …

Calculating partition coefficients of small molecules in octanol/water and cyclohexane/water

CC Bannan, G Calabró, DY Kyu… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Partition coefficients describe how a solute is distributed between two immiscible solvents.
They are used in drug design as a measure of a solute's hydrophobicity and a proxy for its …