Comparison of force fields for Alzheimer's A: A case study for intrinsically disordered proteins

M Carballo‐Pacheco, B Strodel - Protein science, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Intrinsically disordered proteins are essential for biological processes such as cell
signalling, but are also associated to devastating diseases including Alzheimer's disease …

Replica Exchange of Expanded Ensembles: A Generalized Ensemble Approach with Enhanced Flexibility and Parallelizability

WT Hsu, MR Shirts - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Generalized ensemble methods such as Hamiltonian replica exchange (HREX) and
expanded ensemble (EE) have been shown effective in free energy calculations for various …

Asynchronous replica exchange software for grid and heterogeneous computing

E Gallicchio, J Xia, WF Flynn, B Zhang… - Computer physics …, 2015 - Elsevier
Parallel replica exchange sampling is an extended ensemble technique often used to
accelerate the exploration of the conformational ensemble of atomistic molecular …

A stochastic solution to the unbinned WHAM equations

BW Zhang, J Xia, Z Tan, RM Levy - The journal of physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The weighted histogram analysis method (WHAM) and unbinned versions such as the
multistate Bennett acceptance ratio (MBAR) and unbinned WHAM (UWHAM) are widely …

Robust, efficient and automated methods for accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities in AMBER Drug Discovery Boost

TS Lee, HC Tsai, A Ganguly, TJ Giese… - Free Energy Methods in …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recent concurrent advances in methodology development, computer hardware and
simulation software has transformed our ability to make practical, quantitative predictions of …

Coarse master equations for binding kinetics of amyloid peptide dimers

CT Leahy, RD Murphy, G Hummer… - The journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We characterize the kinetics of dimer formation of the short amyloid microcrystal-forming
tetrapeptides NNQQ by constructing coarse master equations for the conformational …

Alchemical Free-Energy Calculations by Multiple-Replica λ-Dynamics: The Conveyor Belt Thermodynamic Integration Scheme

DF Hahn, PH Hunenberger - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A new method is proposed to calculate alchemical free-energy differences based on
molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, called the conveyor belt thermodynamic integration …

P-ETL: Parallel-ETL based on the MapReduce paradigm

M Bala, O Boussaid, Z Alimazighi - 2014 IEEE/ACS 11th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Big data is an opportunity in the emergence of novel business applications such as “Big
Data Analytics”(BDA). However, these data with non-traditional volumes create a real …

Peptide dimerization-dissociation rates from replica exchange molecular dynamics

CT Leahy, A Kells, G Hummer, NV Buchete… - The Journal of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We show how accurate rates of formation and dissociation of peptide dimers can be
calculated using direct transition counting (DTC) from replica-exchange molecular dynamics …

A combined treatment of hydration and dynamical effects for the modeling of host–guest binding thermodynamics: the SAMPL5 blinded challenge

RK Pal, K Haider, D Kaur, W Flynn, J Xia… - Journal of computer …, 2017 - Springer
As part of the SAMPL5 blinded experiment, we computed the absolute binding free energies
of 22 host–guest complexes employing a novel approach based on the BEDAM single …