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A semiempirical free energy force field with charge‐based desolvation
Author(s) -
Huey Ruth,
Morris Garrett M.,
Olson Arthur J.,
Goodsell David S.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of computational chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.907
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1096-987X
pISSN - 0192-8651
DOI - 10.1002/jcc.20634
Subject(s) - force field (fiction) , intramolecular force , chemistry , docking (animal) , atom (system on chip) , molecular dynamics , computational chemistry , binding energy , field (mathematics) , chemical physics , atomic physics , physics , computer science , stereochemistry , medicine , nursing , mathematics , pure mathematics , embedded system , quantum mechanics
Abstract The authors describe the development and testing of a semiempirical free energy force field for use in AutoDock4 and similar grid‐based docking methods. The force field is based on a comprehensive thermodynamic model that allows incorporation of intramolecular energies into the predicted free energy of binding. It also incorporates a charge‐based method for evaluation of desolvation designed to use a typical set of atom types. The method has been calibrated on a set of 188 diverse protein–ligand complexes of known structure and binding energy, and tested on a set of 100 complexes of ligands with retroviral proteases. The force field shows improvement in redocking simulations over the previous AutoDock3 force field. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem, 2007