Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry

Presents critical reviews of important topics in computational chemistry as applied to various chemical disciplines. This title covers such topics as quantum chemistry, molecular mechanics, force fields, chemical education, and applications in academic and industrial settings, focusing on the advances in the field.

Section A 1. Advancements in Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Biomolecules on Graphical Processing Units Dong Xu, Mark J. Williamson, Ross C. Walker 2. Quantum Chemistry on Graphics Processing Units Andreas W. Gotz, Thorsten Wole, Ross C. Walker 3. Computing Free-Energy Profiles using Multidimensional Potentials of Mean Force and Polynomial Quadrature Methods Jonah Z. Vilseck and Orlando Acevedo 4. QM/MM Alchemical Free Energy Simulations: Challenges and Recent Developments Wei Yang, Qiang Cui, Donghong Min, and Hongzhi Li Section B 5. Deciphering Structural Fingerprints for Metalloproteins with Quantum Chemical Calculations Yan Ling and Yong Zhang 6. Ab initio Electron Propagator Methods:Applications to Fullerenes and Nucleic Acid Fragments Viatcheslav G. Zakrzewski, Olga Dolgounitcheva, Alexander V. Zakjevskii and J. V. Ortiz Section C 7. Using Density Functional Theory methods for modeling induction and dispersion interactions in ligand-protein complexes Hunter Utkov, Maura Livengood, and Mauricio Cafiero 8. Theoretical Calculations of Acid Dissociation Constants: A Review Article Kristin S. Alongi and George C. Shields 9. Antibiotics Targeting the Ribosome: Structure Based Design and the Nobel Prize Edward C. Sherer Section D 10. Insights into the role of conformational transitions and metal ion binding in RNA catalysis from molecular simulations Tai-Sung Lee, George M. Giambasu, Darrin M. York 11. Atomistic Modeling of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells C. Heath Turner, Xian Wang, Kah Chun Lau, Wei An, and Brett I. Dunlap Section E 12. Modelling signalling processes across cellular membranes using a mesoscopic approach George Khelashvili and Daniel Harries 13. Folding of conjugated proteins Dalit Shental-Bechor, Oshrit Arviv, Tzachi Hagai, and Yaakov Levy Section F 14. Mean-force scoring functions for protein-ligand binding Sheng-You Huang and Xiaoqin Zou