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ArticleJournal of computational chemistry2009

Absolute free energies estimated by combining precalculated molecular fragment libraries.

Xin Zhang, Artem B Mamonov, Daniel M Zuckerman

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Article in Journal of computational chemistry, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Xin ZhangDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA.
Artem B Mamonov
Daniel M Zuckerman

Funding

Fast Computations for Structural Transitions in ProteinsR01GM070987 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI ZUCKERMAN, DANIEL M · 2004 to 2008
$1.1M
Toward Practical, Rigorous Binding Affinity CalculationsR01GM076569 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI ZUCKERMAN, DANIEL M · 2007 to 2011
$1.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM070987NIGMS NIH HHS GM076569NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM070987NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM076569
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The absolute free energy--or partition function, equivalently--of a molecule can be estimated computationally using a suitable reference system. Here, we demonstrate a practical method for staging such calculations by growing a molecule based on a series of fragments. Significant computer time is saved by precalculating fragment configurations and interactions for reuse in a variety of molecules. We use such fragment libraries and interaction tables for amino acids and capping groups to estimate free energies for small peptides. Equilibrium ensembles for the molecules are generated at no additional computational cost and are used to check our results by comparison to standard dynamics simulation. We explain how our work can be extended to estimate relative binding affinities.

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ThermodynamicsComputer SimulationDipeptidesModels, ChemicalOligopeptidesPolymersalanylalaninealanyl-alanyl-alanyl-alanineDipeptidesOligopeptidesPolymers

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PMID19504588
PMCPMC2783641

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