Title
Charmm-Gui Ligand Reader And Modeler For Charmm Force Field Generation Of Small Molecules
Abstract
Reading ligand structures into any simulation program is often nontrivial and time consuming, especially when the force field parameters and/or structure files of the corresponding molecules are not available. To address this problem, we have developed Ligand Reader & Modeler in CHARMM-GUI. Users can upload ligand structure information in various forms (using PDB ID, ligand ID, SMILES, MOL/MOL2/SDF file, or PDB/mmCIF file), and the uploaded structure is displayed on a sketchpad for verification and further modification. Based on the displayed structure, Ligand Reader & Modeler generates the ligand force field parameters and necessary structure files by searching for the ligand in the CHARMM force field library or using the CHARMM general force field (CGenFF). In addition, users can define chemical substitution sites and draw substituents in each site on the sketchpad to generate a set of combinatorial structure files and corresponding force field parameters for throughput or alchemical free energy simulations. Finally, the output from Ligand Reader & Modeler can be used in other CHARMM-GUI modules to build a protein-ligand simulation system for all supported simulation programs, such as CHARMM, NAMD, GROMACS, AMBER, GENESIS, LAMMPS, Desmond, OpenMM, and CHARMM/OpenMM. Ligand Reader & Modeler is available as a functional module of CHARMM-GUI at . (c) 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1002/jcc.24829
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Keywords
Field
DocType
molecular dynamics simulation, molecular modeling, drug design, protein-ligand interactions, CGenFF
Force field (physics),Simulation system,Ligand,Computational chemistry,Upload,Chemistry,Small molecule,Molecular dynamics,Functional module
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
21
0192-8651
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
15
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Seonghoon Kim150.80
Jumin Lee2204.17
Sunhwan Jo313413.08
Charles L. Brooks III41198126.06
Hui Sun Lee5415.66
Wonpil Im613221.26