Conformation generation: the state of the art

PCD Hawkins - Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2017 - ACS Publications
The generation of conformations for small molecules is a problem of continuing interest in
cheminformatics and computational drug discovery. This review will present an overview of …

Exploration of reaction pathways and chemical transformation networks

GN Simm, AC Vaucher, M Reiher - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
For the investigation of chemical reaction networks, the identification of all relevant
intermediates and elementary reactions is mandatory. Many algorithmic approaches exist …

iM-Seeker: a webserver for DNA i-motifs prediction and scoring via automated machine learning

H Yu, F Li, B Yang, Y Qi, D Guneri, W Chen… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
DNA, beyond its canonical B-form double helix, adopts various alternative conformations,
among which the i-motif, emerging in cytosine-rich sequences under acidic conditions, holds …

Generating molecular conformer fields

Y Wang, AAA Elhag, N Jaitly, JM Susskind, MÁ Bautista - 2023 - openreview.net
In this paper we tackle the problem of generating conformers of a molecule in 3D space
given its molecular graph. We parameterize these conformers as continuous functions that …

Helicusin E, Isochromophilone X and Isochromophilone XI: New Chloroazaphilones Produced by the Fungus Bartalinia robillardoides Strain LF550

N Jansen, B Ohlendorf, A Erhard, T Bruhn… - Marine Drugs, 2013 - mdpi.com
Microbial studies of the Mediterranean sponge Tethya aurantium led to the isolation of the
fungus Bartalinia robillardoides strain LF550. The strain produced a number of secondary …

Emerging Conformational-Analysis Protocols from the RTCONF55-16K Reaction Thermochemistry Conformational Benchmark Set

BB Mészáros, K Kubicskó, DD Németh… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
RTCONF55-16K is a new, reactive conformational data set based on cost-efficient methods
to assess different conformational analysis protocols. Our reference calculations …

Nudicaulins, Yellow Flower Pigments of Papaver nudicaule: Revised Constitution and Assignment of Absolute Configuration

EC Tatsis, A Schaumlöffel, AC Warskulat… - Organic …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The constitution of the aglycon of nudicaulin has been revised to be a pentacyclic indole
alkaloid. The relative and absolute configurations of the two diastereomers, nudicaulins I …

Optimization of a genetic algorithm for searching molecular conformer space

ZE Brain, MA Addicoat - The Journal of chemical physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
We present two sets of tunings that are broadly applicable to conformer searches of isolated
molecules using a genetic algorithm (GA). In order to find the most efficient tunings for the …

Phycocyanobilin in solution–a solvent triggered molecular switch

T Watermann, H Elgabarty, D Sebastiani - … Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a computational investigation of the conformational response of phycocyanobilin
(PCB) to the ability of solvents to form hydrogen bonds. PCB is the chromophore of several …

Free energy-based conformational search algorithm using the movable type sampling method

LL Pan, Z Zheng, T Wang… - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2015 - ACS Publications
In this article, we extend the movable type (MT) sampling method to molecular
conformational searches (MT-CS) on the free energy surface of the molecule in question …