Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics: Principles and applications

J Wang, PR Arantes, A Bhattarai… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) is a robust computational method for
simultaneous unconstrained enhanced sampling and free energy calculations of …

Practical aspects of free-energy calculations: a review

N Hansen, WF Van Gunsteren - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Free-energy calculations in the framework of classical molecular dynamics simulations are
nowadays used in a wide range of research areas including solvation thermodynamics …

Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics: unconstrained enhanced sampling and free energy calculation

Y Miao, VA Feher, JA McCammon - Journal of chemical theory …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) approach for simultaneous enhanced
sampling and free energy calculation of biomolecules is presented. By constructing a boost …

Improved reweighting of accelerated molecular dynamics simulations for free energy calculation

Y Miao, W Sinko, L Pierce, D Bucher… - Journal of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Accelerated molecular dynamics (aMD) simulations greatly improve the efficiency of
conventional molecular dynamics (cMD) for sampling biomolecular conformations, but they …

Routine access to millisecond time scale events with accelerated molecular dynamics

LCT Pierce, R Salomon-Ferrer… - Journal of chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
In this work, we critically assess the ability of the all-atom enhanced sampling method
accelerated molecular dynamics (aMD) to investigate conformational changes in proteins …

Ligand Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (LiGaMD): Characterization of ligand binding thermodynamics and kinetics

Y Miao, A Bhattarai, J Wang - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Calculations of ligand binding free energies and kinetic rates are important for drug design.
However, such tasks have proven challenging in computational chemistry and biophysics …

Assessing the performance of the MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 10. Impacts of enhanced sampling and variable dielectric model on protein–protein interactions

E Wang, G Weng, H Sun, H Du, F Zhu… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Enhanced sampling has been extensively used to capture the conformational transitions in
protein folding, but it attracts much less attention in the studies of protein–protein …

Unconstrained enhanced sampling for free energy calculations of biomolecules: a review

Y Miao, JA McCammon - Molecular simulation, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Free energy calculations are central to understanding the structure, dynamics and function
of biomolecules. Yet insufficient sampling of biomolecular configurations is often regarded …

Equilibrium sampling in biomolecular simulations

DM Zuckerman - Annual review of biophysics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Equilibrium sampling of biomolecules remains an unmet challenge after more than 30 years
of atomistic simulation. Efforts to enhance sampling capability, which are reviewed here …

Accelerated molecular dynamics simulations of protein folding

Y Miao, F Feixas, C Eun… - Journal of computational …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Folding of four fast‐folding proteins, including chignolin, Trp‐cage, villin headpiece and WW
domain, was simulated via accelerated molecular dynamics (aMD). In comparison with …