End-point binding free energy calculation with MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA: strategies and applications in drug design

E Wang, H Sun, J Wang, Z Wang, H Liu… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanics Poisson–Boltzmann surface area (MM/PBSA) and molecular
mechanics generalized Born surface area (MM/GBSA) are arguably very popular methods …

Generalized Born implicit solvent models for biomolecules

AV Onufriev, DA Case - Annual review of biophysics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
It would often be useful in computer simulations to use an implicit description of solvation
effects, instead of explicitly representing the individual solvent molecules. Continuum …

FreeSolv: a database of experimental and calculated hydration free energies, with input files

DL Mobley, JP Guthrie - Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 2014 - Springer
This work provides a curated database of experimental and calculated hydration free
energies for small neutral molecules in water, along with molecular structures, input files …

Comparison of implicit and explicit solvent models for the calculation of solvation free energy in organic solvents

J Zhang, H Zhang, T Wu, Q Wang… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Quantitative prediction of physical properties of liquids is important for many applications.
Computational methods based on either explicit or implicit solvent models can be used to …

Water models for biomolecular simulations

AV Onufriev, S Izadi - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Modern simulation and modeling approaches to investigation of biomolecular structure and
function rely heavily on a variety of methods—water models—to approximate the influence …

An effective MM/GBSA protocol for absolute binding free energy calculations: A case study on SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and the human ACE2 receptor

N Forouzesh, N Mishra - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The binding free energy calculation of protein–ligand complexes is necessary for research
into virus–host interactions and the relevant applications in drug discovery. However, many …

Protein–ligand electrostatic binding free energies from explicit and implicit solvation

S Izadi, B Aguilar, AV Onufriev - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Accurate yet efficient computational models of solvent environment are central for most
calculations that rely on atomistic modeling, such as prediction of protein–ligand binding …

Using MD simulations to calculate how solvents modulate solubility

S Liu, S Cao, K Hoang, KL Young… - Journal of Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Here, our interest is in predicting solubility in general, and we focus particularly on predicting
how the solubility of particular solutes is modulated by the solvent environment. Solubility in …

Grid-based surface generalized Born model for calculation of electrostatic binding free energies

N Forouzesh, S Izadi, AV Onufriev - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Fast and accurate calculation of solvation free energies is central to many applications, such
as rational drug design. In this study, we present a grid-based molecular surface …

Accuracy comparison of generalized Born models in the calculation of electrostatic binding free energies

S Izadi, RC Harris, MO Fenley… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The need for accurate yet efficient representation of the aqueous environment in
biomolecular modeling has led to the development of a variety of generalized Born (GB) …