Overview of the SAMPL6 host–guest binding affinity prediction challenge

A Rizzi, S Murkli, JN McNeill, W Yao, M Sullivan… - Journal of computer …, 2018 - Springer
Accurately predicting the binding affinities of small organic molecules to biological
macromolecules can greatly accelerate drug discovery by reducing the number of …

On calculating free energy differences using ensembles of transition paths

R Hall, T Dixon, A Dickson - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The free energy of a process is the fundamental quantity that determines its spontaneity or
propensity at a given temperature. In particular, the binding free energy of a drug candidate …

SAMPL7 TrimerTrip host–guest binding affinities from extensive alchemical and end-point free energy calculations

Z Huai, H Yang, X Li, Z Sun - Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
The prediction of host–guest binding affinities with computational modelling is still a
challenging task. In the 7th statistical assessment of the modeling of proteins and ligands …

Binding thermodynamics of Host–Guest Systems with SMIRNOFF99Frosst 1.0. 5 from the open force field initiative

DR Slochower, NM Henriksen, LP Wang… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Designing ligands that bind their target biomolecules with high affinity and specificity is a key
step in small-molecule drug discovery, but accurately predicting protein–ligand binding free …

SAMPL6 host–guest binding affinities and binding poses from spherical-coordinates-biased simulations

Z Sun, Q He, X Li, Z Zhu - Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 2020 - Springer
Host–guest binding is a challenging problem in computer simulation. The prediction of
binding affinities between hosts and guests is an important part of the statistical assessment …

Accurate receptor-ligand binding free energies from fast qm conformational chemical space sampling

E Boz, M Stein - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Small molecule receptor-binding is dominated by weak, non-covalent interactions such as
van-der-Waals hydrogen bonding or electrostatics. Calculating these non-covalent ligand …

Machine learning and enhanced sampling simulations for computing the potential of mean force and standard binding free energy

M Bertazzo, D Gobbo, S Decherchi… - Journal of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Computational capabilities are rapidly increasing, primarily because of the availability of
GPU-based architectures. This creates unprecedented simulative possibilities for the …

SAMPL7 trimertrip host–guest binding poses and binding affinities from spherical-coordinates-biased simulations

Z Sun - Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 2021 - Springer
Host–guest binding remains a major challenge in modern computational modelling. The
newest 7th statistical assessment of the modeling of proteins and ligands (SAMPL) …

SAMPL7 blind challenge: quantum–mechanical prediction of partition coefficients and acid dissociation constants for small drug-like molecules

BK Fındık, ZP Haslak, E Arslan, V Aviyente - Journal of Computer-Aided …, 2021 - Springer
The physicochemical properties of a drug molecule determine the therapeutic effectiveness
of the drug. Thus, the development of fast and accurate theoretical approaches for the …

SAMPL7: Host–guest binding prediction by molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics

Y Eken, NMS Almeida, C Wang, AK Wilson - Journal of Computer-Aided …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Statistical Assessment of Modeling of Proteins and Ligands (SAMPL) challenges
provide routes to compare chemical quantities determined using computational chemistry …