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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2025

FakeRotLib: Expedient Noncanonical Amino Acid Parametrization in Rosetta.

Eric W Bell, Benjamin P Brown, Jens Meiler

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 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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  1. Applications and limitations of AI tools in enzyme design.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
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Eric W BellCenter for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240-0002, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3419-4398
Benjamin P BrownCenter for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240-0002, United States.
Jens MeilerCenter for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240-0002, United States.

Funding

Structure based design of trimer interface epitope focused universal influenza vaccinesU01AI150739 · NIAID · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI CROWE, JAMES E · 2020 to 2024
$6.1M
Integrated Training in Engineering and DiabetesT32DK101003 · NIDDK · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Jamey D. Young · 2014 to 2026
$3.9M
Developing a computational platform for induced-fit and chemogenetic drug designDP1DA058349 · NIDA · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Benjamin Patrick Brown · 2023 to 2026
$1.9M
GPU-Accelerated Parallel Computer for Life Sciences ResearchS10OD032234 · OD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI SMITH, JARROD ANSON · 2022 to 2022
$600k
Parallel Computer with High Memory NodesS10OD016216 · OD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI PISTON, DAVID W · 2013 to 2013
$598k
GPU-Accelerated Parallel Computer for Drug Discovery ApplicationsS10OD020154 · OD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI SMITH, JARROD ANSON · 2015 to 2015
$225k
Analysis of oxidative stress through deep atomic embeddingsF32GM154455 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI BELL, ERIC WILLIAM · 2024 to 2025
$97k
NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI150739NIDA NIH HHS DP1 DA058349NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK101003NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM154455NIH HHS S10 OD016216NIH HHS S10 OD020154NIH HHS S10 OD032234
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Abstract

Noncanonical amino acids (NCAAs) occupy an important place, both in natural biology and in synthetic applications. However, modeling these amino acids still lies outside the capabilities of most deep learning methods due to sparse training data sets for this task. Instead, biophysical methods such as Rosetta can excel in modeling NCAAs. We discuss the various aspects of parametrizing an NCAA for use in Rosetta, identifying rotamer distribution modeling as one of the most impactful factors of NCAA parametrization on Rosetta performance. To this end, we also present FakeRotLib, a method that uses statistical fitting of small-molecule conformers to create rotamer distributions. We find that FakeRotLib outperforms existing methods in a fraction of the time and is able to parametrize NCAA types previously unmodeled by Rosetta.

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Amino AcidsModels, MolecularAmino Acids

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PMID40789114
PMCPMC12381846

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