Biomolecular modeling: goals, problems, perspectives

WF Van Gunsteren, D Bakowies… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Computation based on molecular models is playing an increasingly important role in
biology, biological chemistry, and biophysics. Since only a very limited number of properties …

Biomolecular simulations at constant pH

J Mongan, DA Case - Current opinion in structural biology, 2005 - Elsevier
Like temperature and pressure, the solution pH is an important thermodynamic variable that
is commonly varied in experiments and is used by cells to influence biochemical function. It …

Scalable molecular dynamics with NAMD

JC Phillips, R Braun, W Wang… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high‐performance simulation of
large biomolecular systems. NAMD scales to hundreds of processors on high‐end parallel …

The GROMOS software for biomolecular simulation: GROMOS05

M Christen, PH Hünenberger… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We present the latest version of the Groningen Molecular Simulation program package,
GROMOS05. It has been developed for the dynamical modelling of (bio) molecules using …

Calculating the binding free energies of charged species based on explicit-solvent simulations employing lattice-sum methods: An accurate correction scheme for …

GJ Rocklin, DL Mobley, KA Dill… - The Journal of chemical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The calculation of a protein-ligand binding free energy based on molecular dynamics (MD)
simulations generally relies on a thermodynamic cycle in which the ligand is alchemically …

Simulating the physical world

HJC Berendsen - Simulating the Physical World, 2004 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
The simulation of physical systems requires a simplified, hierarchical approach which
models each level from the atomistic to the macroscopic scale. From quantum mechanics to …

New interaction parameters for charged amino acid side chains in the GROMOS force field

MM Reif, PH Hünenberger… - Journal of chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
A GROMOS force-field parameter set 54A8 is developed, which is based on the latest 54A7
set [Schmid et al. Eur. Biophys. J. 2011, 40, 843–856] and involves a recalibration of the …

Computation of methodology-independent single-ion solvation properties from molecular simulations. IV. Optimized Lennard-Jones interaction parameter sets for the …

MM Reif, PH Hünenberger - The Journal of chemical physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
A companion article has been published: Computation of methodology-independent single-
ion solvation properties from molecular simulations. III. Correction terms for the solvation free …

Computation of methodology-independent ionic solvation free energies from molecular simulations. II. The hydration free energy of the sodium cation

MA Kastenholz, PH Hünenberger - The Journal of chemical physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
The raw ionic solvation free energies computed from atomistic (explicit-solvent) simulations
are extremely sensitive to the boundary conditions (finite or periodic system, system shape …

Polarizable force fields and polarizable continuum model: A fluctuating charges/PCM approach. 1. Theory and implementation

F Lipparini, V Barone - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We present a combined fluctuating charges–polarizable continuum model approach to
describe molecules in solution. Both static and dynamic approaches are discussed …