Enhanced sampling methods for molecular dynamics simulations

J Hénin, T Lelièvre, MR Shirts, O Valsson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Enhanced sampling algorithms have emerged as powerful methods to extend the utility of
molecular dynamics simulations and allow the sampling of larger portions of the …

Unsupervised learning methods for molecular simulation data

A Glielmo, BE Husic, A Rodriguez, C Clementi… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Unsupervised learning is becoming an essential tool to analyze the increasingly large
amounts of data produced by atomistic and molecular simulations, in material science, solid …

Role of molecular dynamics and related methods in drug discovery

M De Vivo, M Masetti, G Bottegoni… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) and related methods are close to becoming routine computational
tools for drug discovery. Their main advantage is in explicitly treating structural flexibility and …

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 …

Metadynamics

A Barducci, M Bonomi… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Metadynamics is a powerful technique for enhancing sampling in molecular dynamics
simulations and reconstructing the free‐energy surface as a function of few selected …

Ligand binding free-energy calculations with funnel metadynamics

S Raniolo, V Limongelli - Nature Protocols, 2020 - nature.com
The accurate resolution of the binding mechanism of a ligand to its molecular target is
fundamental to develop a successful drug design campaign. Free-energy calculations …

Molecular determinants of drug–receptor binding kinetics

AC Pan, DW Borhani, RO Dror, DE Shaw - Drug discovery today, 2013 - Elsevier
It is increasingly appreciated that the rates at which drugs associate with and dissociate from
receptors—the binding kinetics—directly impact drug efficacy and safety. The molecular …

Activation pathway of Src kinase reveals intermediate states as targets for drug design

D Shukla, Y Meng, B Roux, VS Pande - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Unregulated activation of Src kinases leads to aberrant signalling, uncontrolled growth and
differentiation of cancerous cells. Reaching a complete mechanistic understanding of large …

Thermodynamics and kinetics of drug-target binding by molecular simulation

S Decherchi, A Cavalli - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Computational studies play an increasingly important role in chemistry and biophysics,
mainly thanks to improvements in hardware and algorithms. In drug discovery and …

Principles and overview of sampling methods for modeling macromolecular structure and dynamics

T Maximova, R Moffatt, B Ma, R Nussinov… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Investigation of macromolecular structure and dynamics is fundamental to understanding
how macromolecules carry out their functions in the cell. Significant advances have been …