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Marina Macchiagodena1, Marco Pagliai1, Piero Procacci1
1Dipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff", Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
Abstract:
We describe a step-by-step protocol and toolkit for the computation of the relative dissociation free energy (RDFE) with the GROMACS molecular dynamics package, based on a novel bidirectional nonequilibrium alchemical approach. The proposed methodology does not require any intervention on the code and allows computing with good accuracy the RDFE between small molecules with arbitrary differences in volume, charge, and chemical topology. The procedure is illustrated for the challenging SAMPL9 batch of host-guest pairs. The article is supplemented by a detailed online tutorial, available at https://procacci.github.io/vdssb_gromacs/NE-RDFE and by a public Zenodo repository available at https://zenodo.org/record/6982932.
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