Computational methods in drug discovery

G Sliwoski, S Kothiwale, J Meiler, EW Lowe - Pharmacological reviews, 2014 - ASPET
Computer-aided drug discovery/design methods have played a major role in the
development of therapeutically important small molecules for over three decades. These …

Metadynamics

A Barducci, M Bonomi… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Metadynamics is a powerful technique for enhancing sampling in molecular dynamics
simulations and reconstructing the free‐energy surface as a function of few selected …

Automated exploration of the low-energy chemical space with fast quantum chemical methods

P Pracht, F Bohle, S Grimme - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We propose and discuss an efficient scheme for the in silico sampling for parts of the
molecular chemical space by semiempirical tight-binding methods combined with a meta …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the accuracy of physical models used in protein-folding simulations: quantitative evidence from long molecular dynamics simulations

S Piana, JL Klepeis, DE Shaw - Current opinion in structural biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•The accuracy of physical models used in protein-folding simulations is
assessed.•This assessment is based on data from very long molecular dynamics …

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 …

Enhancing important fluctuations: Rare events and metadynamics from a conceptual viewpoint

O Valsson, P Tiwary, M Parrinello - Annual review of physical …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Atomistic simulations play a central role in many fields of science. However, their usefulness
is often limited by the fact that many systems are characterized by several metastable states …

Exploring free-energy landscapes of intrinsically disordered proteins at atomic resolution using NMR spectroscopy

MR Jensen, M Zweckstetter, J Huang… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The last 15 years have seen a paradigm shift in our understanding of protein biochemistry,
with the realization that an unexpectedly high fraction of the human genome codes for …

Reaction Mechanisms in Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes: Glycoside Hydrolases and Glycosyltransferases. Insights from ab Initio Quantum Mechanics/Molecular …

A Ardèvol, C Rovira - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015 - ACS Publications
Carbohydrate-active enzymes such as glycoside hydrolases (GHs) and glycosyltransferases
(GTs) are of growing importance as drug targets. The development of efficient competitive …

[HTML][HTML] CREST—A program for the exploration of low-energy molecular chemical space

P Pracht, S Grimme, C Bannwarth, F Bohle… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Conformer–rotamer sampling tool (CREST) is an open-source program for the efficient and
automated exploration of molecular chemical space. Originally developed in Pracht et …

Binding affinity in drug design: experimental and computational techniques

V Kairys, L Baranauskiene… - Expert opinion on …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: In pharmaceutical design where future drugs are developed by targeting a
specific chosen protein, the evaluation of ligand affinity is crucial. For this very purpose are a …