Ensemble docking in drug discovery

RE Amaro, J Baudry, J Chodera, Ö Demir… - Biophysical journal, 2018 - cell.com
Ensemble docking corresponds to the generation of an" ensemble" of drug target
conformations in computational structure-based drug discovery, often obtained by using …

Multiscale methods in drug design bridge chemical and biological complexity in the search for cures

RE Amaro, AJ Mulholland - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
Drug action is inherently multiscale: it connects molecular interactions to emergent
properties at cellular and larger scales. Simulation techniques at each of these different …

Alchemical binding free energy calculations in AMBER20: Advances and best practices for drug discovery

TS Lee, BK Allen, TJ Giese, Z Guo, P Li… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Predicting protein–ligand binding affinities and the associated thermodynamics of
biomolecular recognition is a primary objective of structure-based drug design. Alchemical …

Making it rain: cloud-based molecular simulations for everyone

PR Arantes, MD Polêto, C Pedebos… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We present a user-friendly front-end for running molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using
the OpenMM toolkit on the Google Colab framework. Our goals are (1) to highlight the usage …

Computational molecular interaction between SARS-CoV-2 main protease and theaflavin digallate using free energy perturbation and molecular dynamics

M Manish, S Mishra, A Anand, N Subbarao - Computers in Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Our objective was to identify the molecule which can inhibit SARS-CoV-2 main protease and
can be easily procured. Natural products may provide such molecules and can supplement …

Pre‐exascale HPC approaches for molecular dynamics simulations. Covid‐19 research: A use case

M Wieczor, V Genna, J Aranda… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Exascale computing has been a dream for ages and is close to becoming a reality that will
impact how molecular simulations are being performed, as well as the quantity and quality of …

Designing a multi-epitope vaccine against Chlamydia pneumoniae by integrating the core proteomics, subtractive proteomics and reverse vaccinology-based …

F Noor, S Ahmad, M Saleem, H Alshaya… - Computers in Biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Chlamydia pneumoniae, a pneumonia causing specie belonging to chlamydia bacterium. C.
pneumonia is considered as a leading cause of pneumonia. Apart from that, C. pneumoniae …

Continuous evaluation of ligand protein predictions: a weekly community challenge for drug docking

JR Wagner, CP Churas, S Liu, RV Swift, M Chiu… - Structure, 2019 - cell.com
Docking calculations can accelerate drug discovery by predicting the bound poses of
ligands for a targeted protein. However, it is not clear which docking methods work best …

Improving the efficiency of ligand-binding protein design with molecular dynamics simulations

EP Barros, JM Schiffer, A Vorobieva… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Custom-designed ligand-binding proteins represent a promising class of macromolecules
with exciting applications toward the design of new enzymes or the engineering of …

Fighting viruses with computers, right now

MR Machado, S Pantano - Current Opinion in Virology, 2021 - Elsevier
The synergistic conjunction of various technological revolutions with the accumulated
knowledge and workflows is rapidly transforming several scientific fields. Particularly …