Journal of chemical information and modeling
Apr 8, 2024
Understanding the energetic landscapes of large molecules is necessary for the study of chemical and biological systems. Recently, deep learning has greatly accelerated the development of models based on quantum chemistry, making it possible to build...
Identifying optimal reaction coordinates for complex conformational changes and protein folding remains an outstanding challenge. This study combines collective variable (CV) discovery based on chemical intuition and machine learning with enhanced sa...
Electrostatic calculations are generally used in studying the thermodynamics and kinetics of biomolecules in solvent. Generally, this is performed by solving the Poisson-Boltzmann equation on a large grid system, a process known to be time consuming....
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Feb 23, 2024
Time-lagged independent component analysis (tICA) and the Markov state model (MSM) have been extensively employed for extracting conformational dynamics and kinetic community networks from unbiased trajectory ensembles. However, these techniques may ...
Electrostatics is of paramount importance to chemistry, physics, biology, and medicine. The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory is a primary model for electrostatic analysis. However, it is highly challenging to compute accurate PB electrostatic solvation ...
The rank ordering of ligands remains one of the most attractive challenges in drug discovery. While physics-based in silico binding affinity methods dominate the field, they still have problems, which largely revolve around forcefield accuracy and sa...
During gasification the kinetic and thermodynamic parameter depend on both the feedstock and the process conditions. As a result, one needs to enhance the understanding of how to model numerically these parameters using thermogravimetric analyzer. Co...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jan 12, 2024
Protein thermodynamics is intimately tied to biological function and can enable processes such as signal transduction, enzyme catalysis, and molecular recognition. The relative free energies of conformations that contribute to these functional equili...
Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics
Jan 10, 2024
Hematopoietic progenitor kinase 1 (HPK1) is a key negative regulator of T-cell receptor (TCR) signaling and a promising target for cancer immunotherapy. The development of novel HPK1 inhibitors is challenging yet promising. In this study, we used a c...
The journal of physical chemistry letters
Nov 30, 2023
Accurate prediction of binding free energy changes upon mutations is vital for optimizing drugs, designing proteins, understanding genetic diseases, and cost-effective virtual screening. While machine learning methods show promise in this domain, ach...