Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics: Principles and applications

J Wang, PR Arantes, A Bhattarai… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) is a robust computational method for
simultaneous unconstrained enhanced sampling and free energy calculations of …

Insights into protein–ligand interactions: mechanisms, models, and methods

X Du, Y Li, YL Xia, SM Ai, J Liang, P Sang… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Molecular recognition, which is the process of biological macromolecules interacting with
each other or various small molecules with a high specificity and affinity to form a specific …

Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics: unconstrained enhanced sampling and free energy calculation

Y Miao, VA Feher, JA McCammon - Journal of chemical theory …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) approach for simultaneous enhanced
sampling and free energy calculation of biomolecules is presented. By constructing a boost …

Enhanced sampling in molecular dynamics using metadynamics, replica-exchange, and temperature-acceleration

C Abrams, G Bussi - Entropy, 2013 - mdpi.com
We review a selection of methods for performing enhanced sampling in molecular dynamics
simulations. We consider methods based on collective variable biasing and on tempering …

Improved reweighting of accelerated molecular dynamics simulations for free energy calculation

Y Miao, W Sinko, L Pierce, D Bucher… - Journal of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Accelerated molecular dynamics (aMD) simulations greatly improve the efficiency of
conventional molecular dynamics (cMD) for sampling biomolecular conformations, but they …

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 …

Evolution of alchemical free energy methods in drug discovery

LF Song, KM Merz Jr - Journal of Chemical Information and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The goal of the present manuscript is to succinctly trace the key technological steps in the
evolution of alchemical free energy methods (AFEMs) from a purely theoretical construct to a …

Hamiltonian replica exchange in GROMACS: a flexible implementation

G Bussi - Molecular Physics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
A simple and general implementation of Hamiltonian replica exchange for the popular
molecular dynamics software GROMACS is presented. In this implementation, arbitrarily …

Free energy perturbation Hamiltonian replica-exchange molecular dynamics (FEP/H-REMD) for absolute ligand binding free energy calculations

W Jiang, B Roux - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2010 - ACS Publications
Free Energy Perturbation with Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics (FEP/REMD) offers a
powerful strategy to improve the convergence of free energy computations. In particular, it …

Unconstrained enhanced sampling for free energy calculations of biomolecules: a review

Y Miao, JA McCammon - Molecular simulation, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Free energy calculations are central to understanding the structure, dynamics and function
of biomolecules. Yet insufficient sampling of biomolecular configurations is often regarded …