scholarly journals Connecting Free Energy Surfaces in Implicit and Explicit Solvent: An Efficient Method To Compute Conformational and Solvation Free Energies

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 2868-2878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanjie Deng ◽  
Bin W. Zhang ◽  
Ronald M. Levy
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (46) ◽  
pp. 31850-31861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan N. Steinmann ◽  
Philippe Sautet ◽  
Carine Michel

A strategy based on molecular mechanics free energy of perturbation, seeded by quantum mechanics, is presented to take solvation energies into account in the context of periodic, solid–liquid interfaces.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasemin Basdogan ◽  
Mitchell C. Groenenboom ◽  
Ethan Henderson ◽  
Sandip De ◽  
Susan Rempe ◽  
...  

<div><div><div><p>Toward practical modeling of local solvation effects of any solute in any solvent, we report a static and all-quantum mechanics based cluster-continuum approach for calculating single ion solvation free energies. This approach uses a global optimization procedure to identify low energy molecular clusters with different numbers of explicit solvent molecules and then employs the Smooth Overlap for Atomic Positions (SOAP) kernel to quantify the similarity between different low energy solute environments. From these data, we use sketch-map, a non-linear dimensionality reduction algorithm, to obtain a two-dimensional visual representation of the similarity between solute environments in differently sized microsolvated clusters. Without needing either dynamics simulations or an a priori knowledge of local solvation structure of the ions, this approach can be used to calculate solvation free energies with errors within five percent of experimental measurements for most cases.</p></div></div></div>


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1034-1043 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Zhang ◽  
Haiyang Zhang ◽  
Tao Wu ◽  
Qi Wang ◽  
David van der Spoel

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Duarte Ramos Matos ◽  
Daisy Y. Kyu ◽  
Hannes H. Loeffler ◽  
John D. Chodera ◽  
Michael R. Shirts ◽  
...  

AbstractSolvation free energies can now be calculated precisely from molecular simulations, providing a valuable test of the energy functions underlying these simulations. Here, we briefly review “alchemical” approaches for calculating the solvation free energies of small, neutral organic molecules from molecular simulations, and illustrate by applying them to calculate aqueous solvation free energies (hydration free energies). These approaches use a non-physical pathway to compute free energy differences from a simulation or set of simulations and appear to be a particularly robust and general-purpose approach for this task. We also present an update (version 0.5) to our FreeSolv database of experimental and calculated hydration free energies of neutral compounds and provide input files in formats for several simulation packages. This revision to FreeSolv provides calculated values generated with a single protocol and software version, rather than the heterogeneous protocols used in the prior version of the database. We also further update the database to provide calculated enthalpies and entropies of hydration and some experimental enthalpies and entropies, as well as electrostatic and nonpolar components of solvation free energies.


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