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ArticleJournal of computational chemistry2022

Alchemical free energy simulations without speed limits. A generic framework to calculate free energy differences independent of the underlying molecular dynamics program.

Marcus Wieder, Markus Fleck, Benedict Braunsfeld, Stefan Boresch

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Article in Journal of computational chemistry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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4 authors.

Marcus WiederDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-2631-8415
Markus FleckDepartment of Computational Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-8648-2164
Benedict BraunsfeldDepartment of Computational Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-0286-8239
Stefan BoreschDepartment of Computational Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-2793-6656

Funding

Austrian Science Foundation P-31024Austrian Science Fund FWF P 31024FWF Erwin Schrödinger Postdoctoral Fellowship J 4245-N28
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe the theory of the so-called common-core/serial-atom-insertion (CC/SAI) approach to compute alchemical free energy differences and its practical implementation in a Python package called Transformato. CC/SAI is not tied to a specific biomolecular simulation program and does not rely on special purpose code for alchemical transformations. To calculate the alchemical free energy difference between several small molecules, the physical end-states are mutated into a suitable common core. Since this only requires turning off interactions, the setup of intermediate states is straightforward to automate. Transformato currently supports CHARMM and OpenMM as back ends to carry out the necessary molecular dynamics simulations, as well as post-processing calculations. We validate the method by computing a series of relative solvation free energy differences.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationEntropyThermodynamicsfree energy calculationssolvation free energytoolkit

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PMID35485139
PMCPMC9323469

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