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Calculating Structures and Free Energies of Complex Molecules: Combining Molecular Mechanics and Continuum Models

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A historical perspective on the application of molecular dynamics to biological macromolecules is presented and recent developments combining state-of-the-art force fields with continuum solvation calculations have allowed for the fourth era of MD applications in which one can often derive both accurate structure and accurate relative free energies from molecular dynamics trajectories.
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A historical perspective on the application of molecular dynamics (MD) to biological macromolecules is presented. Recent developments combining state-of-the-art force fields with continuum solvation calculations have allowed us to reach the fourth era of MD applications in which one can often derive both accurate structure and accurate relative free energies from molecular dynamics trajectories. We illustrate such applications on nucleic acid duplexes, RNA hairpins, protein folding trajectories, and protein−ligand, protein−protein, and protein−nucleic acid interactions.

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The Amber biomolecular simulation programs

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Docking and scoring in virtual screening for drug discovery: methods and applications.

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Exploring protein native states and large-scale conformational changes with a modified generalized born model.

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Particle mesh Ewald: An N⋅log(N) method for Ewald sums in large systems

TL;DR: An N⋅log(N) method for evaluating electrostatic energies and forces of large periodic systems is presented based on interpolation of the reciprocal space Ewald sums and evaluation of the resulting convolutions using fast Fourier transforms.
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Computer Simulation of Liquids

TL;DR: In this paper, the gear predictor -corrector is used to calculate forces and torques in a non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation using Monte Carlo methods. But it is not suitable for the gear prediction problem.
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Accurate Calculation of Hydration Free Energies Using Macroscopic Solvent Models

TL;DR: In this paper, a method and parametrization scheme which allow fast and accurate calculations of hydration free energies is described, where the solute is treated as a polarizable cavity of a shape defined by the molecular surface, containing point charges at the location of atomic nuclei.
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Free energy calculations : applications to chemical and biochemical phenomena

Peter A. Kollman
- 01 Nov 1993 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the applications of free energy calculations employing molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo methods to a variety of chemical and biochemical phenomena, including molecular solvation, molecular association, macromolecular stability, and enzyme catalysis.
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