Title
Tinker-Openmm: Absolute And Relative Alchemical Free Energies Using Amoeba On Gpus
Abstract
The capabilities of the polarizable force fields for alchemical free energy calculations have been limited by the high computational cost and complexity of the underlying potential energy functions. In this work, we present a GPU-based general alchemical free energy simulation platform for polarizable potential AMOEBA. Tinker-OpenMM, the OpenMM implementation of the AMOEBA simulation engine has been modified to enable both absolute and relative alchemical simulations on GPUs, which leads to a similar to 200-fold improvement in simulation speed over a single CPU core. We show that free energy values calculated using this platform agree with the results of Tinker simulations for the hydration of organic compounds and binding of host-guest systems within the statistical errors. In addition to absolute binding, we designed a relative alchemical approach for computing relative binding affinities of ligands to the same host, where a special path was applied to avoid numerical instability due to polarization between the different ligands that bind to the same site. This scheme is general and does not require ligands to have similar scaffolds. We show that relative hydration and binding free energy calculated using this approach match those computed from the absolute free energy approach. (C) 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1002/jcc.24853
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Keywords
Field
DocType
AMOEBA, free energy calculation, graphics processing units, Tinker, OpenMM
Energy simulation,Computer science,Computational chemistry,Polarizability,Polarization (waves),Potential energy,Multi-core processor,Affinities,Numerical stability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
23
0192-8651
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.46
11
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthew Harger120.46
Daniel Li220.46
Zhi Wang37614.27
Kevin N Dalby440.84
Louis Lagardère561.23
Jean-Philip Piquemal6779.45
Jay W. Ponder78613.73
Pengyu Ren8699.77