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We report the results of our participation in the SAMPL8 GDCC Blind Challenge for host-guest binding affinity predictions. Absolute binding affinity prediction is of central importance to the biophysics of molecular association and…
We present our blind predictions for the Statistical Assessment of the Modeling of Proteins and Ligands (SAMPL), 9th challenge, focusing on binding of WP6 (carboxy-pillar[6]arene) with ammonium/diammonium cationic guests. Host-guest binding…
The Alchemical Transfer Method (ATM) for the calculation of standard binding free energies of non-covalent molecular complexes is presented. The method is based on a coordinate displacement perturbation of the ligand between the receptor…
The Alchemical Transfer Method (ATM) is herein validated against the relative binding free energies of a diverse set of protein-ligand complexes. We employed a streamlined setup workflow, a bespoke force field, and the AToM-OpenMM software…
The accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is crucial for drug discovery. Alchemical free energy calculations have become a popular tool for this purpose. However, the accuracy and reliability of these methods can vary…
We present receptor hopping and receptor swapping free energy estimation protocols based on the Alchemical Transfer Method (ATM) to model the binding selectivity of a set of ligands to two arbitrary receptors. The receptor hopping protocol,…
We present an analytical description of the Alchemical Transfer Method (ATM) for molecular binding using the Potential Distribution Theory (PDT) formalism. ATM models the binding free energy by mapping the bound and unbound states of the…
We present an extension of Alchemical Transfer Method (ATM) for the estimation of relative binding free energies of molecular complexes applicable to conventional as well as scaffold-hopping alchemical transformations. The method, named…
Predicting non-covalent host-guest recognition remains challenging due to the complex interplay of electrostatics, dispersion, and steric effects, and the limited transferability of existing docking approaches to synthetic supramolecular…
We present a parameterized analytical model of alchemical molecular binding. The model describes accurately the free energy profiles of linear single-decoupling alchemical binding free energy calculations. The parameters of the model, which…
Accurate prediction of binding free energies is critical to streamlining the drug development and protein design process. With the advent of GPU acceleration, absolute alchemical methods, which simulate the removal of ligand electrostatics…
A rigorous formalism for estimating noncovalent binding free energies and thermodynamic expectations from calculations in which receptor configurations are sampled independently from the ligand is derived. Due to this separation, receptor…
We present a new method that combines alchemical transformation with physical pathway to accurately and efficiently compute the absolute binding free energy of receptor-ligand complex. Currently, the double decoupling method (DDM) and the…
We investigate the role of order/disorder transitions in alchemical simulations of protein-ligand absolute binding free energies. We show, in the context of a potential of mean force description, that for a benchmarking system (the complex…
We present the Alchemical Transfer with Coordinate Swapping (ATS) method to enable the calculation of the relative binding free energies between large congeneric ligands and single-point mutant peptides to protein receptors with the…
The theory of receptor-ligand binding equilibria has long been well-established in biochemistry, and was primarily constructed to describe dilute aqueous solutions. Accordingly, few computational approaches have been developed for making…
N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is a prevalent RNA post-transcriptional modification that plays crucial roles in RNA stability, structural dynamics, and interactions with proteins. The YT521-B (YTH) family of proteins, which are notable m6A…
Absolute Binding Free Energy (ABFE) methods are among the most accurate computational techniques for predicting protein-ligand binding affinities, but their utility is limited by the need for many simulations of alchemically modified…
Predicting the binding free energy between antibodies and antigens is a key challenge in structure-aware biomolecular modeling, with direct implications for antibody design. Most existing methods either rely solely on sequence embeddings or…
Alchemical binding free energy (BFE) calculations offer an efficient and thermodynamically rigorous approach to in silico binding affinity predictions. As a result of decades of methodological improvements and recent advances in computer…