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  • Computational chemistry
  • Molecular modeling
  • Drug discovery

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  • General Amber Force Field (GAFF) is widely used for protein-ligand binding simulations.
  • GAFF parameters, especially torsion terms, may require custom reparameterization for accurate binding free energy calculations.
  • Torsion parameters are sensitive to stereoelectronic and steric effects in drug-like molecules.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a user-friendly computational tool, AFFDO, for generating accurate, tailored GAFF2 torsion parameters.
  • To improve the accuracy of protein-ligand binding free energy simulations through custom parameterization.
  • To provide a flexible platform for optimizing force field parameters for drug-like molecules.

Main Methods:

  • AFFDO platform utilizes GPU-accelerated density functional theory (DFT) calculations for reference data.
  • It employs a fast gradient-based optimizer with automated differentiation to fit torsion terms.
  • The tool selects critical torsions for a given ligand and generates optimized GAFF2 parameters.

Main Results:

  • AFFDO successfully generated improved GAFF2 torsion parameters against quantum mechanics (QM) reference data.
  • Parametrization of drug-like molecules using AFFDO led to enhanced protein-ligand relative binding free energy (RBFE) simulations.
  • The tool demonstrated improved agreement with experimental RBFE values in several cases.

Conclusions:

  • AFFDO provides an efficient and accurate method for developing tailored GAFF2 torsion parameters.
  • The platform enhances the reliability of molecular simulations in structure-based drug discovery.
  • AFFDO offers a valuable solution for overcoming limitations in general force field applicability.