Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
May 30, 2023
Protein side-chain packing (PSCP), the task of determining amino acid side-chain conformations given only backbone atom positions, has important applications to protein structure prediction, refinement, and design. Many methods have been proposed to ...
Journal of computational chemistry
May 16, 2023
FSATOOL is an integrated molecular simulation and data analysis program. Its old molecular dynamics engine only supports simulations in vacuum or implicit solvent. In this work, we implement the well-known smooth particle mesh Ewald method for simula...
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 5, 2022
Accurate conformational energetics of molecules are of great significance to understand maby chemical properties. They are also fundamental for high-quality parameterization of force fields. Traditionally, accurate conformational profiles are obtaine...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Oct 18, 2022
Many applications of machine-learning methods involve an iterative protocol in which data are collected, a model is trained, and then outputs of that model are used to choose what data to consider next. For example, a data-driven approach for designi...
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
Oct 5, 2022
Efficient prediction of the partition coefficient (log ) between polar and non-polar phases could shorten the cycle of drug and materials design. In this work, a descriptor, named 〈 - ACSFs〉, is proposed to take the explicit polarization effects in t...
Journal of computational chemistry
Aug 24, 2022
Conformer-RL is an open-source Python package for applying deep reinforcement learning (RL) to the task of generating a diverse set of low-energy conformations for a single molecule. The library features a simple interface to train a deep RL conforme...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Aug 3, 2022
Present-day atomistic simulations generate long trajectories of ever more complex systems. Analyzing these data, discovering metastable states, and uncovering their nature are becoming increasingly challenging. In this paper, we first use the variati...
The journal of physical chemistry. B
Jul 6, 2022
Capturing the autonomous self-assembly of molecular building blocks in computer simulations is a persistent challenge, requiring to model complex interactions and to access long time scales. Advanced sampling methods allow to bridge these time scales...
Journal of medicinal chemistry
Jun 1, 2022
Development of accurate machine-learning-based scoring functions (MLSFs) for structure-based virtual screening against a given target requires a large unbiased dataset with structurally diverse actives and decoys. However, most datasets for the devel...
Journal of biomolecular NMR
May 27, 2022
Macromolecules often exchange between functional states on timescales that can be accessed with NMR spectroscopy and many NMR tools have been developed to characterise the kinetics and thermodynamics of the exchange processes, as well as the structur...