Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jun 23, 2021
Protein domains are independent, functional, and stable structural units of proteins. Accurate protein domain boundary prediction plays an important role in understanding protein structure and evolution, as well as for protein structure prediction. C...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Apr 27, 2021
Self-assembling peptide nanostructures have been shown to be of great importance in nature and have presented many promising applications, for example, in medicine as drug-delivery vehicles, biosensors, and antivirals. Being very promising candidates...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Apr 5, 2021
Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been developed to simulate molecular systems, where an explicit description of changes in the electronic structure is necessary. However, QM/MM MD simulations are ...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Mar 30, 2021
Drug resistance threatens many critical therapeutics through mutations in the drug target. The molecular mechanisms by which combinations of mutations, especially those remote from the active site, alter drug binding to confer resistance are poorly u...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Mar 29, 2021
Several experimental studies indicated that large conformational changes, including partial domain unfolding, have a role in the functional mechanisms of the basic helix loop helix Per/ARNT/SIM (bHLH-PAS) transcription factors. Recently, single-molec...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Mar 4, 2021
With the continual improvement of computing hardware and algorithms, simulations have become a powerful tool for understanding all sorts of (bio)molecular processes. To handle the large simulation data sets and to accelerate slow, activated transitio...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Aug 25, 2020
The human telomeric DNA G-quadruplex follows a kinetic partitioning folding mechanism. The underlying folding landscape potentially has many minima separated by high free-energy barriers. However, using current theoretical models to characterize this...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jul 16, 2020
Machine learning encompasses tools and algorithms that are now becoming popular in almost all scientific and technological fields. This is true for molecular dynamics as well, where machine learning offers promises of extracting valuable information ...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jul 6, 2020
Atom pairwise potential functions make up an essential part of many scoring functions for protein decoy detection. With the development of machine learning (ML) tools, there are multiple ways to combine potential functions to create novel ML models a...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jun 29, 2020
Machine learning (ML) methods have become powerful, predictive tools in a wide range of applications, such as facial recognition and autonomous vehicles. In the sciences, computational chemists and physicists have been using ML for the prediction of ...