GROMACS implementation of free energy calculations with non-pairwise Variationally derived Intermediates

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Gradients in free energies are the driving forces of physical and biochemical systems. To predict energy differences with high accuracy, Molecular Dynamics (MD) other methods based on atomistic Hamiltonians conduct sampling simulations intermediate thermodynamic states that bridge configuration space densities between two interest ('alchemical transformations'). For uncorrelated sampling, recent Variationally derived Intermediates (VI) method yields optimal accuracy. The form VI intermediates differs fundamentally from conventional ones they non-pairwise, i.e., total force a particle an cannot be split into additive contributions surrounding particles. In this work, we describe implementation widely used GROMACS MD software package (2020, version 1). Furthermore, variant is developed avoids numerical instabilities for vanishing allows use previous non-pairwise potential forms literature, which have so far not been available GROMACS. Example cases calculation solvation energies, accuracy assessments thereof, provided.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Computer Physics Communications

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1879-2944', '0010-4655']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2021.107931