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Combining Machine Learning and Enhanced Sampling Techniques for Efficient and Accurate Calculation of Absolute Binding Free Energies

Evans, R; Hovan, L; Tribello, GA; Cossins, BP; Estarellas, C; Gervasio, FL; (2020) Combining Machine Learning and Enhanced Sampling Techniques for Efficient and Accurate Calculation of Absolute Binding Free Energies. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00075. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Calculating absolute binding free energies is challenging and important. In this paper, we test some recently developed metadynamics-based methods and develop a new combination with a Hamiltonian replica-exchange approach. The methods were tested on 18 chemically diverse ligands with a wide range of different binding affinities to a complex target; namely, human soluble epoxide hydrolase. The results suggest that metadynamics with a funnel-shaped restraint can be used to calculate, in a computationally affordable and relatively accurate way, the absolute binding free energy for small fragments. When used in combination with an optimal pathlike variable obtained using machine learning or with the Hamiltonian replica-exchange algorithm SWISH, this method can achieve reasonably accurate results for increasingly complex ligands, with a good balance of computational cost and speed. An additional benefit of using the combination of metadynamics and SWISH is that it also provides useful information about the role of water in the binding mechanism.

Type: Article
Title: Combining Machine Learning and Enhanced Sampling Techniques for Efficient and Accurate Calculation of Absolute Binding Free Energies
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00075
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00075
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the author and source are cited.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10100299
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