Free energy methods for the description of molecular processes

C Chipot - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Efforts to combine theory and experiment to advance our knowledge of molecular processes
relevant to biophysics have been considerably enhanced by the contribution of statistical …

AmberTools

DA Case, HM Aktulga, K Belfon… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
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Modern alchemical free energy methods for drug discovery explained

DM York - ACS Physical Chemistry Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
This Perspective provides a contextual explanation of the current state-of-the-art alchemical
free energy methods and their role in drug discovery as well as highlights select emerging …

ACES: optimized alchemically enhanced sampling

TS Lee, HC Tsai, A Ganguly… - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present an alchemical enhanced sampling (ACES) method implemented in the GPU-
accelerated AMBER free energy MD engine. The methods hinges on the creation of an …

AMBER free energy tools: a new framework for the design of optimized alchemical transformation pathways

HC Tsai, TS Lee, A Ganguly, TJ Giese… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We develop a framework for the design of optimized alchemical transformation pathways in
free energy simulations using nonlinear mixing and a new functional form for so-called …

The maximal and current accuracy of rigorous protein-ligand binding free energy calculations

GA Ross, C Lu, G Scarabelli, SK Albanese… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Computational techniques can speed up the identification of hits and accelerate the
development of candidate molecules for drug discovery. Among techniques for predicting …

QDπ: A quantum deep potential interaction model for drug discovery

J Zeng, Y Tao, TJ Giese, DM York - Journal of chemical theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report QDπ-v1. 0 for modeling the internal energy of drug molecules containing H, C, N,
and O atoms. The QDπ model is in the form of a quantum mechanical/machine learning …

Dmff: an open-source automatic differentiable platform for molecular force field development and molecular dynamics simulation

X Wang, J Li, L Yang, F Chen, Y Wang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In the simulation of molecular systems, the underlying force field (FF) model plays an
extremely important role in determining the reliability of the simulation. However, the quality …

Amber drug discovery boost tools: Automated workflow for production free-energy simulation setup and analysis (professa)

A Ganguly, HC Tsai, M Fernández-Pendás… - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report an automated workflow for production free-energy simulation setup and analysis
(ProFESSA) using the GPU-accelerated AMBER free-energy engine with enhanced …

Alchemical Free Energy Calculations on Membrane-Associated Proteins

M Papadourakis, H Sinenka, P Matricon… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Membrane proteins have diverse functions within cells and are well-established drug
targets. The advances in membrane protein structural biology have revealed drug and lipid …