BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Predicting the effects of protein and DNA mutations on the binding free energy of protein-DNA complexes is crucial for understanding how DNA variants impact wild-type cellular function. As many cellular interactions involve pro...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 15, 2025
Integrating machine learning potentials (MLPs) with quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) free energy simulations has emerged as a powerful approach for studying enzymatic catalysis. However, its practical application has been hindered by t...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 13, 2025
Accurate structural feature characterization of cyclic peptides (CPs), especially those with less than 10 residues and -peptide bonds, is challenging but important for the rational design of bioactive peptides. In this study, we performed high-temper...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jan 9, 2025
In this contribution, we examine the interplay between target definition, data distribution, featurization approaches, and model architectures on graph-based deep learning models for thermodynamic property prediction. Through consideration of five cu...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 3, 2025
The development of machine-learning (ML) potentials offers significant accuracy improvements compared to molecular mechanics (MM) because of the inclusion of quantum-mechanical effects in molecular interactions. However, ML simulations are several ti...
Machine-learning methods have gained significant attention in the computational chemistry community as a viable approach to molecular modeling and analysis. Recent successes in utilizing neural networks to learn atomistic force-fields which 'coarse-g...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Dec 30, 2024
Machine learning methods for fitting potential energy surfaces and molecular dynamics simulations are becoming increasingly popular due to their potentially high accuracy and savings in computational resources. However, existing application models of...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Dec 19, 2024
Helices are important secondary structural motifs within proteins and are pivotal in numerous physiological processes. While amino acids (AA) such as alanine and leucine are known to promote helix formation, proline and glycine disfavor it. Helical s...
The mis-folding and aggregation of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) such as α-synuclein (αS) underlie the pathogenesis of various neurodegenerative disorders. However, targeting αS with small molecules faces challenges due to the lack of defi...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Dec 16, 2024
Modeling adsorbates on single-crystal metals is critical in rational catalyst design and other research that requires detailed thermochemistry. First-principles simulations via density functional theory (DFT) are among the prevalent tools to acquire ...
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