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ArticleJournal of chemical theory and computation2025

Reproducibility of QM/MM Calculations for the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease.

Xiaoli Sun, Ulf Ryde

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Article in Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  2. Fragme∩t: An Open-Source Framework for Multiscale Quantum Chemistry Based on Fragmentation.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Computational molecular science
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Xiaoli SunDepartment of Computational Chemistry, Lund University, Chemical Centre, PO. Box 124, Lund SE-221 00, Sweden.
Ulf RydeDepartment of Computational Chemistry, Lund University, Chemical Centre, PO. Box 124, Lund SE-221 00, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-7653-8489

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Combined quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics (QM/MM) calculations are a popular approach to study reaction mechanisms of enzymes. However, recently, the reproducibility of such calculations has been questioned, comparing the results of two software: NWChem and Q-Chem. Here, we continue and extend this study by including three additional software─ComQum, ORCA, and AMBER─using the same test case, the covalent attachment of the carmofur inhibitor to the catalytic Cys-145 residue of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, using a quantum region of 83 atoms. We confirm that the various software programs give varying results for the reaction (Δ

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Coronavirus 3C ProteasesMolecular Dynamics SimulationQuantum TheorySARS-CoV-2HumansProtease InhibitorsReproducibility of ResultsSoftwareThermodynamics3C-like proteinase, SARS-CoV-2Coronavirus 3C ProteasesProtease Inhibitors

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PMID40705936
PMCPMC12355682

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