Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jun 4, 2020
Calculating absolute binding free energies is challenging and important. In this paper, we test some recently developed metadynamics-based methods and develop a new combination with a Hamiltonian replica-exchange approach. The methods were tested on ...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Apr 7, 2020
Understanding the conformational characteristics of protein complexes in solution is crucial for a deeper insight in their biological function. Molecular dynamics simulations performed on high performance computing plants and with modern simulation t...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 16, 2020
Over the past several decades, atomistic simulations of biomolecules, whether carried out using molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo techniques, have provided detailed insights into their function. Comparing the results of such simulations for a few clo...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Nov 25, 2019
Sirtuin 5 is a class III histone deacetylase that, unlike its classification, mainly catalyzes desuccinylation and demanoylation reactions. It is an interesting drug target that we use here to test new ideas for calculating reaction pathways of large...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Oct 7, 2019
Phase separation in mixed lipid systems has been extensively studied both experimentally and theoretically because of its biological importance. A detailed description of such complex systems undoubtedly requires novel mathematical frameworks that ar...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
May 14, 2019
In recent years, machine learning (ML) methods have become increasingly popular in computational chemistry. After being trained on appropriate ab initio reference data, these methods allow for accurately predicting the properties of chemical systems,...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 7, 2019
Accurate force fields are crucial for molecular dynamics investigation of complex biological systems. Building accurate protein force fields from quantum mechanical (QM) calculations is challenging due to the complexity of proteins and high computati...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Dec 24, 2018
In this work, we demonstrate how to leverage our recent iterative deep learning-all atom molecular dynamics (MD) technique "Reweighted autoencoded variational Bayes for enhanced sampling (RAVE)" (Ribeiro, Bravo, Wang, Tiwary, J. Chem. Phys. 2018, 149...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Oct 9, 2018
The value of protein models obtained with automated protein structure prediction depends primarily on their accuracy. Protein model quality assessment is thus critical to select the model that can best answer biologically relevant questions from an e...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Aug 17, 2018
The ability to accurately and efficiently compute quantum-mechanical partial atomistic charges has many practical applications, such as calculations of IR spectra, analysis of chemical bonding, and classical force field parametrization. Machine learn...