A central quantity of interest in molecular biology and medicine is the free energy of binding of a molecule to a target biomacromolecule. Until recently, the accurate prediction of binding …
Accurately predicting protein–ligand binding affinities is an important problem in computational chemistry since it can substantially accelerate drug discovery for virtual …
S Wan, RC Sinclair… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Molecular dynamics simulation is now a widespread approach for understanding complex systems on the atomistic scale. It finds applications from physics and chemistry to …
The capability to rank different potential drug molecules against a protein target for potency has always been a fundamental challenge in computational chemistry due to its importance …
AP Bhati, PV Coveney - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The accurate and reliable prediction of protein–ligand binding affinities can play a central role in the drug discovery process as well as in personalized medicine. Of considerable …
The race to meet the challenges of the global pandemic has served as a reminder that the existing drug discovery process is expensive, inefficient and slow. There is a major …
A de Ruiter, C Oostenbrink - Current opinion in structural biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Binding free energy calculations are increasing used in drug design and biotechnology.•We distinguish end-state methods, alchemical methods and pathway …
Alchemical free energy methods have gained much importance recently from several reports of improved ligand–protein binding affinity predictions based on their implementation using …
The drug discovery process currently employed in the pharmaceutical industry typically requires about 10 years and $2–3 billion to deliver one new drug. This is both too expensive …