Journal of chemical information and modeling
Mar 30, 2022
Conformational sampling of protein structures is essential for understanding biochemical functions and for predicting thermodynamic properties such as free energies. Where previous approaches rely on sequential sampling procedures, recent development...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Mar 11, 2022
Computing accurate reaction rates is a central challenge in computational chemistry and biology because of the high cost of free energy estimation with unbiased molecular dynamics. In this work, a data-driven machine learning algorithm is devised to ...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Mar 8, 2022
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have made great contribution to revealing structural and functional mechanisms for many biomolecular systems. However, how to identify functional states and important residues from vast conformation space generated...
Since December 2019, SARS-CoV-2 has continued to spread rapidly around the world. The effective drugs may provide a long-term strategy to combat this virus. The main protease (Mpro) and papain-like protease (PLpro) are two important targets for the ...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Feb 25, 2022
Understanding the process of ligand-protein recognition is important to unveil biological mechanisms and to guide drug discovery and design. Enhanced-sampling molecular dynamics is now routinely used to simulate the ligand binding process, resulting ...
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are widely used to obtain the microscopic properties of atomistic systems when the interatomic potential or the coarse-grained potential is known. In many practical situations, however, it is necessary to predict t...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Feb 24, 2022
We introduce a Gaussian-accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD), deep learning (DL), and free energy profiling workflow (GLOW) to predict molecular determinants and map free energy landscapes of biomolecules. All-atom GaMD-enhanced sampling simulations...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Feb 23, 2022
The determination of drug residence times, which define the time an inhibitor is in complex with its target, is a fundamental part of the drug discovery process. Synthesis and experimental measurements of kinetic rate constants are, however, expensiv...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Feb 18, 2022
The application of machine learning to theoretical chemistry has made it possible to combine the accuracy of quantum chemical energetics with the thorough sampling of finite-temperature fluctuations. To reach this goal, a diverse set of methods has b...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Feb 4, 2022
Fast and accurate assessment of small-molecule dihedral energetics is crucial for molecular design and optimization in medicinal chemistry. Yet, accurate prediction of torsion energy profiles remains challenging as the current molecular mechanics (MM...
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