Alchemical Transformations and Beyond: Recent Advances and Real-World Applications of Free Energy Calculations in Drug Discovery

R Qian, J Xue, Y Xu, J Huang - Journal of Chemical Information …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Computational methods constitute efficient strategies for screening and optimizing potential
drug molecules. A critical factor in this process is the binding affinity between candidate …

Scalable hybrid deep neural networks/polarizable potentials biomolecular simulations including long-range effects

TJ Inizan, T Plé, O Adjoua, P Ren, H Gökcan… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Deep-HP is a scalable extension of the Tinker-HP multi-GPU molecular dynamics (MD)
package enabling the use of Pytorch/TensorFlow Deep Neural Network (DNN) models …

β-Lactamases evolve against antibiotics by acquiring large active-site electric fields

Z Ji, SG Boxer - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
A compound bound covalently to an enzyme active site can act either as a substrate if the
covalent linkage is readily broken up by the enzyme or as an inhibitor if the bond dissociates …

Routine molecular dynamics simulations including nuclear quantum effects: From force fields to machine learning potentials

T Plé, N Mauger, O Adjoua, TJ Inizan… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report the implementation of a multi-CPU and multi-GPU massively parallel platform
dedicated to the explicit inclusion of nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) in the Tinker-HP …

A Polarizable QM/MM Model That Combines the State-Averaged CASSCF and AMOEBA Force Field for Photoreactions in Proteins

C Song, LP Wang - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2024 - ACS Publications
This study presents the polarizable quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM)
embedding of the state-averaged complete active space self-consistent field (SA-CASSCF) …

Streamlining and Optimizing Strategies of Electrostatic Parameterization

Q Zhu, Y Wu, S Zhao, P Cieplak, Y Duan… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Accurate characterization of electrostatic interactions is crucial in molecular simulation.
Various methods and programs have been developed to obtain electrostatic parameters for …

Accurate host–guest binding free energies using the AMOEBA polarizable force field

MKJ Chung, RJ Miller, B Novak, Z Wang… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A grand challenge of computational biophysics is accurate prediction of interactions
between molecules. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have recently gained much …

Incorporating Neural Networks into the AMOEBA Polarizable Force Field

Y Wang, TJ Inizan, C Liu, JP Piquemal… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Neural network potentials (NNPs) offer significant promise to bridge the gap between the
accuracy of quantum mechanics and the efficiency of molecular mechanics in molecular …

Synergistic integration of physical embedding and machine learning enabling precise and reliable force field

L Xu, J Jiang - Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2024 - ACS Publications
Machine-learning force fields have achieved significant strides in accurately reproducing the
potential energy surface with quantum chemical accuracy. However, this approach still faces …

Advancing Force Fields Parameterization: A Directed Graph Attention Networks Approach

G Chen, T Jaffrelot Inizan, T Plé… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Force fields (FFs) are an established tool for simulating large and complex molecular
systems. However, parametrizing FFs is a challenging and time-consuming task that relies …