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ArticleJournal of chemical theory and computation2014

Sampling of Organic Solutes in Aqueous and Heterogeneous Environments Using Oscillating Excess Chemical Potentials in Grand Canonical-like Monte Carlo-Molecular Dynamics Simulations.

Sirish Kaushik Lakkaraju, E Prabhu Raman, Wenbo Yu, Alexander D MacKerell

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Article in Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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Sirish Kaushik LakkarajuDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland , 20 Penn Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States.
E Prabhu RamanDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland , 20 Penn Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States.
Wenbo YuDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland , 20 Penn Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States.
Alexander D MacKerellDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland , 20 Penn Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States.

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Restoration of Tumor Suppression Activity in Malignant MelanomaR01CA107331 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI WEBER, DAVID JOSEPH · 2006 to 2015
$5.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA107331
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Solute sampling of explicit bulk-phase aqueous environments in grand canonical (GC) ensemble simulations suffer from poor convergence due to low insertion probabilities of the solutes. To address this, we developed an iterative procedure involving Grand Canonical-like Monte Carlo (GCMC) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Each iteration involves GCMC of both the solutes and water followed by MD, with the excess chemical potential (μ

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PMCPMC4053307

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