Title
CaFE: a tool for binding affinity prediction using end-point free energy methods.
Abstract
Accurate prediction of binding free energy is of particular importance to computational biology and structure-based drug design. Among those methods for binding affinity predictions, the end-point approaches, such as MM/PBSA and LIE, have been widely used because they can achieve a good balance between prediction accuracy and computational cost. Here we present an easy-to-use pipeline tool named Calculation of Free Energy (CaFE) to conduct MM/PBSA and LIE calculations. Powered by the VMD and NAMD programs, CaFE is able to handle numerous static coordinate and molecular dynamics trajectory file formats generated by different molecular simulation packages and supports various force field parameters. Availability and implementation: CaFE source code and documentation are freely available under the GNU General Public License via GitHub at https://github.com/huiliucode/cafe_plugin. It is a VMD plugin written in Tcl and the usage is platform-independent.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1093/bioinformatics/btw215
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
File format,Computer science,Source code,Molecular simulation,End point,Bioinformatics,Plug-in,Trajectory
Journal
32
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
14
1367-4803
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hui Liu132.11
Tingjun Hou242754.50