Navigating the landscape of enzyme design: from molecular simulations to machine learning

J Zhou, M Huang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Global environmental issues and sustainable development call for new technologies for fine
chemical synthesis and waste valorization. Biocatalysis has attracted great attention as the …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum mechanical-based strategies in drug discovery: Finding the pace to new challenges in drug design

T Ginex, J Vázquez, C Estarellas, FJ Luque - Current Opinion in Structural …, 2024 - Elsevier
The expansion of the chemical space to tangible libraries containing billions of
synthesizable molecules opens exciting opportunities for drug discovery, but also …

QMrebind: incorporating quantum mechanical force field reparameterization at the ligand binding site for improved drug-target kinetics through milestoning …

AA Ojha, LW Votapka, RE Amaro - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Understanding the interaction of ligands with biomolecules is an integral component of drug
discovery and development. Challenges for computing thermodynamic and kinetic …

[HTML][HTML] How exascale computing can shape drug design: A perspective from multiscale QM/MM molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning-aided …

G Rossetti, D Mandelli - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Molecular simulations are an essential asset in the first steps of drug design campaigns.
However, the requirement of high-throughput limits applications mainly to qualitative …

All-Atom Biomolecular Simulation in the Exascale Era

TL Beck, P Carloni, DN Asthagiri - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Exascale supercomputers have opened the door to dynamic simulations, facilitated by AI/ML
techniques, that model biomolecular motions over unprecedented length and time scales …

PyDFT-QMMM: A modular, extensible software framework for DFT-based QM/MM molecular dynamics

JP Pederson, JG McDaniel - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
PyDFT-QMMM is a Python-based package for performing hybrid quantum
mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations at the density functional level of …

Perspectives on Ligand/Protein Binding Kinetics Simulations: Force Fields, Machine Learning, Sampling, and User-Friendliness

P Conflitti, S Raniolo, V Limongelli - Journal of chemical theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Computational techniques applied to drug discovery have gained considerable popularity
for their ability to filter potentially active drugs from inactive ones, reducing the time scale …

QM/MM Modeling Aided Enzyme Engineering in Natural Products Biosynthesis

F Zhang, T Zeng, R Wu - Journal of Chemical Information and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Natural products and their derivatives are widely used across various industries, particularly
pharmaceuticals. Modern engineered biosynthesis provides an alternative way of producing …

[HTML][HTML] Multiscale biomolecular simulations in the exascale era

D Carrasco-Busturia, E Ippoliti, S Meloni… - Current opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The complexity of biological systems and processes, spanning molecular to macroscopic
scales, necessitates the use of multiscale simulations to get a comprehensive …

[HTML][HTML] Biomolecular simulations at the exascale: From drug design to organelles and beyond

V Gapsys, W Kopec, D Matthes, BL de Groot - Current Opinion in Structural …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid advancement in computational power available for research offers to bring not
only quantitative improvements, but also qualitative changes in the field of biomolecular …