Relative binding free energy calculations in drug discovery: recent advances and practical considerations

Z Cournia, B Allen, W Sherman - Journal of chemical information …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Accurate in silico prediction of protein–ligand binding affinities has been a primary objective
of structure-based drug design for decades due to the putative value it would bring to the …

[HTML][HTML] Heterogeneous parallelization and acceleration of molecular dynamics simulations in GROMACS

S Páll, A Zhmurov, P Bauer, M Abraham… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The introduction of accelerator devices such as graphics processing units (GPUs) has had
profound impact on molecular dynamics simulations and has enabled order-of-magnitude …

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 …

Evolution of alchemical free energy methods in drug discovery

LF Song, KM Merz Jr - Journal of Chemical Information and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The goal of the present manuscript is to succinctly trace the key technological steps in the
evolution of alchemical free energy methods (AFEMs) from a purely theoretical construct to a …

Toward fast and accurate binding affinity prediction with pmemdGTI: An efficient implementation of GPU-accelerated thermodynamic integration

TS Lee, Y Hu, B Sherborne, Z Guo… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report the implementation of the thermodynamic integration method on the pmemd
module of the AMBER 16 package on GPUs (pmemdGTI). The pmemdGTI code typically …

Machine learning driven web-based app platform for the discovery of monoamine oxidase B inhibitors

S Kumar, R Bhowmik, JM Oh, MA Abdelgawad… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Monoamine oxidases (MAOs), specifically MAO-A and MAO-B, play important roles in the
breakdown of monoamine neurotransmitters. Therefore, MAO inhibitors are crucial for …

Boosting free-energy perturbation calculations with GPU-accelerated NAMD

H Chen, JDC Maia, BK Radak, DJ Hardy… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Harnessing the power of graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate molecular
dynamics (MD) simulations in the context of free-energy calculations has been a …

Accelerating drug discovery through tight integration of expert molecular design and predictive scoring

R Abel, S Mondal, C Masse, J Greenwood… - Current opinion in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Free energy calculations and computational solvent analysis guiding drug
discovery.•Drug discovery programs targeting acetyl-CoA carboxylase and tyrosine kinase …

Computational identification of potential inhibitors targeting cdk1 in colorectal cancer

UC Ogbodo, OA Enejoh, CH Okonkwo… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Despite improved treatment options, colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a huge
public health concern with a significant impact on affected individuals. Cell cycle …

A GPU-accelerated parameter interpolation thermodynamic integration free energy method

TJ Giese, DM York - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2018 - ACS Publications
There has been a resurgence of interest in free energy methods motivated by the
performance enhancements offered by molecular dynamics (MD) software written for …