The transformational role of GPU computing and deep learning in drug discovery

M Pandey, M Fernandez, F Gentile, O Isayev… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Deep learning has disrupted nearly every field of research, including those of direct
importance to drug discovery, such as medicinal chemistry and pharmacology. This …

Extended tight‐binding quantum chemistry methods

C Bannwarth, E Caldeweyher, S Ehlert… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This review covers a family of atomistic, mostly quantum chemistry (QC) based
semiempirical methods for the fast and reasonably accurate description of large molecules …

TeraChem: A graphical processing unit‐accelerated electronic structure package for large‐scale ab initio molecular dynamics

S Seritan, C Bannwarth, BS Fales… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
TeraChem was born in 2008 with the goal of providing fast on‐the‐fly electronic structure
calculations to facilitate ab initio molecular dynamics studies of large biochemical systems …

B97-3c: A revised low-cost variant of the B97-D density functional method

JG Brandenburg, C Bannwarth, A Hansen… - The Journal of chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A revised version of the well-established B97-D density functional approximation with
general applicability for chemical properties of large systems is proposed. Like B97-D, it is …

Machine learning classification can reduce false positives in structure-based virtual screening

YO Adeshina, EJ Deeds… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
With the recent explosion in the size of libraries available for screening, virtual screening is
positioned to assume a more prominent role in early drug discovery's search for active …

Computational Chemistry: The Fate of Current Methods and Future Challenges.

S Grimme, PR Schreiner - Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in …, 2017 - europepmc.org
" Where do we go from here?" is the underlying question regarding the future (perhaps
foreseeable) developments in computational chemistry. Although this young discipline has …

Single-point Hessian calculations for improved vibrational frequencies and rigid-rotor-harmonic-oscillator thermodynamics

S Spicher, S Grimme - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The calculation of harmonic vibrational frequencies (HVF) to interpret infrared (IR) spectra
and to convert molecular energies to free energies is one of the essential steps in …

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 …

Electrostatic complementarity as a fast and effective tool to optimize binding and selectivity of protein–ligand complexes

MR Bauer, MD Mackey - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Electrostatic interactions between small molecules and their respective receptors are
essential for molecular recognition and are also key contributors to the binding free energy …

Efficient computation of free energy contributions for association reactions of large molecules

S Spicher, S Grimme - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Modern density functional theory (DFT) methods are capable of providing accurate
association energies for supramolecular systems and even protein–ligand complexes …