Molecular dynamics simulations in drug discovery and pharmaceutical development

OMH Salo-Ahen, I Alanko, R Bhadane, AMJJ Bonvin… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly useful in the modern drug
development process. In this review, we give a broad overview of the current application …

Drug–target kinetics in drug discovery

PJ Tonge - ACS chemical neuroscience, 2018 - ACS Publications
The development of therapies for the treatment of neurological cancer faces a number of
major challenges including the synthesis of small molecule agents that can penetrate the …

ChEMBL: towards direct deposition of bioassay data

D Mendez, A Gaulton, AP Bento… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
ChEMBL is a large, open-access bioactivity database (https://www. ebi. ac. uk/chembl),
previously described in the 2012, 2014 and 2017 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issues …

Ligand Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (LiGaMD): Characterization of ligand binding thermodynamics and kinetics

Y Miao, A Bhattarai, J Wang - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Calculations of ligand binding free energies and kinetic rates are important for drug design.
However, such tasks have proven challenging in computational chemistry and biophysics …

Biomolecular simulations: From dynamics and mechanisms to computational assays of biological activity

DJ Huggins, PC Biggin, MA Dämgen… - Wiley …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Biomolecular simulation is increasingly central to understanding and designing biological
molecules and their interactions. Detailed, physics‐based simulation methods are …

Advances in computational methods for ligand binding kinetics

F Sohraby, A Nunes-Alves - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Binding kinetic parameters can be correlated with drug efficacy, which in recent years led to
the development of various computational methods for predicting binding kinetic rates and …

RNA–ligand molecular docking: Advances and challenges

Y Zhou, Y Jiang, SJ Chen - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With rapid advances in computer algorithms and hardware, fast and accurate virtual
screening has led to a drastic acceleration in selecting potent small molecules as drug …

Predicting biomolecular binding kinetics: A review

J Wang, HN Do, K Koirala, Y Miao - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular binding kinetics including the association (k on) and dissociation (k off) rates
are critical parameters for therapeutic design of small-molecule drugs, peptides, and …

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 …

New approaches for computing ligand–receptor binding kinetics

NJ Bruce, GK Ganotra, DB Kokh, SK Sadiq… - Current opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Many new approaches to computing biomolecular binding kinetics developed
recently.•Enhanced sampling simulation methods permit long-time binding kinetics to be …