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 …

g_mmpbsaA GROMACS Tool for High-Throughput MM-PBSA Calculations

R Kumari, R Kumar… - Journal of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanics Poisson–Boltzmann surface area (MM-PBSA), a method to estimate
interaction free energies, has been increasingly used in the study of biomolecular …

Could MM-GBSA be accurate enough for calculation of absolute protein/ligand binding free energies?

C Mulakala, VN Viswanadhan - Journal of Molecular Graphics and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Implicit solvation methods such as MM-GBSA, when applied to evaluating protein/ligand
binding free energies, are widely believed to be accurate only for the estimation of relative …

Assessing the performance of the MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 1. The accuracy of binding free energy calculations based on molecular dynamics simulations

T Hou, J Wang, Y Li, W Wang - Journal of chemical information …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The Molecular Mechanics/Poisson− Boltzmann Surface Area (MM/PBSA) and the Molecular
Mechanics/Generalized Born Surface Area (MM/GBSA) methods calculate binding free …

The MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods to estimate ligand-binding affinities

S Genheden, U Ryde - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The molecular mechanics energies combined with the Poisson–Boltzmann or
generalized Born and surface area continuum solvation (MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA) methods …

Fast and accurate predictions of binding free energies using MM‐PBSA and MM‐GBSA

G Rastelli, AD Rio, G Degliesposti… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In the drug discovery process, accurate methods of computing the affinity of small molecules
with a biological target are strongly needed. This is particularly true for molecular docking …

Assessing the performance of the molecular mechanics/Poisson Boltzmann surface area and molecular mechanics/generalized Born surface area methods. II. The …

T Hou, J Wang, Y Li, W Wang - Journal of computational …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In molecular docking, it is challenging to develop a scoring function that is accurate to
conduct high‐throughput screenings. Most scoring functions implemented in popular …

Assessing the performance of the MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 10. Impacts of enhanced sampling and variable dielectric model on protein–protein interactions

E Wang, G Weng, H Sun, H Du, F Zhu… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Enhanced sampling has been extensively used to capture the conformational transitions in
protein folding, but it attracts much less attention in the studies of protein–protein …

Statistical analysis on the performance of molecular mechanics poisson–boltzmann surface area versus absolute binding free energy calculations: Bromodomains as …

M Aldeghi, MJ Bodkin, S Knapp… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Binding free energy calculations that make use of alchemical pathways are becoming
increasingly feasible thanks to advances in hardware and algorithms. Although relative …

Calculation of protein-ligand binding affinities

MK Gilson, HX Zhou - Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Accurate methods of computing the affinity of a small molecule with a protein are needed to
speed the discovery of new medications and biological probes. This paper reviews physics …