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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2025

Comparative Analysis of Quantum-Mechanical and Standard Single-Structure Protein-Ligand Scoring Functions with MD-Based Free Energy Calculations.

Mehran Jalaie, Jindřich Fanfrlík, Adam Pecina, Martin Lepšík, Jan Řezáč

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  3. Fragme∩t: An Open-Source Framework for Multiscale Quantum Chemistry Based on Fragmentation.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Computational molecular science
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Mehran JalaiePfizer Worldwide Research and Development, Oncology Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer, La Jolla, California 92121, United States.
Jindřich FanfrlíkInstitute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of The Czech Academy of Sciences, 160 00 Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-1257-1201
Adam PecinaInstitute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of The Czech Academy of Sciences, 160 00 Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-3890-7831
Martin LepšíkInstitute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of The Czech Academy of Sciences, 160 00 Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-2607-8132
Jan ŘezáčInstitute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of The Czech Academy of Sciences, 160 00 Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0001-6849-7314

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-structure scoring functions have been considered inferior to expensive ensemble free energy methods in predicting protein-ligand affinities. We are revisiting this dogma with the recently developed semiempirical quantum-mechanical (SQM)-based scoring function, SQM2.20, comparing its performance to the standard scoring functions on one hand and state-of-the-art molecular dynamics (MD)-based free-energy methods on the other hand. The comparison is conducted on a well-established Wang data set comprising eight protein targets with 200 ligands. The initial low correlation of SQM2.20 scores with the experimental binding affinities of

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationProteinsQuantum TheoryLigandsProtein BindingProtein ConformationThermodynamicsLigandsProteins

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PMID40682535
PMCPMC12344775

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