| Date | Topic | Speaker and Presentation | Primary Reference | Secondary Reference | 
| 2019.08.24 Mon |  | - | - | - | 
| 2019.08.26 Wed | SECTION I: DRUG DISCOVERY AND BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE
 Introduction, history, irrational vs. rationalViral Target Examples
 | Rizzo, R. | 1. Jorgensen, W.L., The many roles of computation in drug discovery. Science 2004, 303, 1813-8
 2. Kuntz, I. D., Structure-based strategies for drug design and discovery. Science 1992, 257, 1078-1082
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| 2019.08.31 Mon | Molecular structure, bonding, graphical representations Functionality, properties of organic molecules 
 | Rizzo, R. | presentation | - | 
| 2019.09.02 Wed | Lipids, carbohydrates Nucleic acids, proteins  
 | Rizzo, R. | presentation | structures of the 20 amino acid side chains | 
| 2019.09.07 Mon |  | - | - | - | 
| 2019.09.09 Wed | Molecular Interactions and Recognition
 Electrostastics, VDW interactions, hydrophobic effect, molecular recognition (binding energy) Inhibitors types: allosteric, transition state, covalent vs non-covalent, selective, competitive  
 | Rizzo, R. | presentation | - | 
| 2019.09.14 Mon | Intro. to Methods in 3-D Structure Determination
 Crystallography, NMR Structure Quality, PDB in detail 
 | Rizzo, R. | presentation | - | 
| 2019.09.16 Wed | SECTION II: MOLECULAR MODELING
 All-atom Molecular Mechanics 
 | 1. Arachchi, Kalani 
 | 1. Mackerell, A. D., Jr., Empirical force fields for biological macromolecules: overview and issues. J. Comput. Chem. 2004, 25, 1584-604
 | 1. van Gunsteren, W. F.; et al., Biomolecular modeling: Goals, problems, perspectives. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2006, 45, 4064-92 
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| 2019.09.21 Mon | OPLS AMBER  
 | 1. Chakraborti, Shreyoshi 
 2. He, Miaomiao 
 | 1. Jorgensen, W. L.; et al., Development and Testing of the OPLS All-Atom Force Field on Conformational Energetics and Properties of Organic Liquids. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 11225-11236
 2. Cornell, W. D.; et al., A Second Generation Force Field For the Simulation of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Organic Molecules. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 5179-5197
 | 1. Jorgensen, W. L.; et al., The Opls Potential Functions For Proteins - Energy Minimizations For Crystals of Cyclic-Peptides and Crambin. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1988, 110, 1657-1671
 2. Bayly, C. I.; et al., A Well-Behaved Electrostatic Potential Based Method Using Charge Restraints For Deriving Atomic Charges - the RESP Model. J. Phys. Chem. 1993, 97, 10269-10280
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| 2019.09.23 Wed | Water models (TIP3P, TIP4P, SPC) Condensed-phase calculations (DGhydration)
 | 1. Tan, Rodger 
 2. Zhang, Hong  
 
 | 1. Jorgensen, W. L.; et al., Comparison of Simple Potential Functions for Simulating Liquid Water. J. Chem. Phys. 1983, 79, 926-935
 2. Jorgensen, W. L.;  et al., Monte Carlo Simulation of Differences in Free Energies of Hydration. J. Chem. Phys. 1985, 83, 3050-3054
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| 2019.09.28 Mon | Generalized Born Surface Area (GBSA)Poisson-Boltzmann Surface Area (PBSA)  
 | 1. Zhu, Chuanzhou 
 2. King, Morgan 
 | 1. Still, W. C.; et al., Semianalytical Treatment of Solvation for Molecular Mechanics and Dynamics. J. Am. Chem. Soc 1990, 112, 6127-6129
 2. Sitkoff, D.; et al., Accurate Calculation of Hydration Free Energies Using Macroscopic Solvent Models. J. Phys. Chem. 1994, 98, 1978-1988 
 | 1. and 2. Rizzo, R. C.; et al., Estimation of Absolute Free Energies of Hydration Using Continuum Methods: Accuracy of Partial Charge Models and Optimization of Nonpolar Contributions. J. Chem. Theory. Comput. 2006, 2, 128-139
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| 2019.09.30 Wed | Quiz Prior Section II SECTION III: SAMPLING METHODS
 Small molecules, peptides, relative energy, minimization methods
 | 1. Zhang, Yunlei 
 | 1. Howard, A. E.; Kollman, P. A., An analysis of current methodologies for conformational searching of complex molecules. J. Med. Chem. 1988, 31, 1669-75
 | 1. Section 4 (PAGES 22-27) Colby College Molecular Mechanics Tutorial Introduction, 2004, Shattuck, T.W., Colby College
 1. Holloway, M. K., A priori prediction of ligand affinity by energy minimization. Perspect. Drug Discov. Design 1998, 9-11, 63-84
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| 2019.10.05 Mon | Primary Sampling Methods for Computer Simulations
 Molecular dynamics (MD) Monte Carlo (MC)
 | 1. Wang, Hehe 
 2. Laverty, Scott 
 | 1. Karplus, M.; Petsko, G. A., Molecular dynamics simulations in biology. Nature 1990, 347, 631-9
 2. Metropolis Monte Carlo Simulation Tutorial, LearningFromTheWeb.net, Accessed Oct 2008, Luke, B.
 2. Jorgensen, W. L.; TiradoRives, J., Monte Carlo vs Molecular Dynamics for Conformational Sampling. J. Phys. Chem. 1996, 100,14508-14513
 | 2. Metropolis, N.;et al., Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines. The Journal of Chemical Physics 1953, 21, 1087-1092
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| 2019.10.07 Wed | Predicting Protein Structure I. 
 Ab initio prediction (protein-folding) Example Trp-cage
 | 1. Earlie, Ethan 
 2. Faizi, Aymon 
 | 1. Dill, K. A.; Chan, H. S., From Levinthal to pathways to funnels. Nat. Struct. Biol. 1997, 4, 10-19
 2. Simmerling, C.;et al., All-atom structure prediction and folding simulations of a stable protein. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124,11258-9
 | 1-2. Daggett, V.; Fersht, A., The present view of the mechanism of protein folding. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 2003, 4, 497-502
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| 2019.10.12 Mon | Predicting Protein Structure II. 
 Comparative (homology) modeling Case studies (CASP)
 | 1. Moalemi, Debbi 
 2. Pipitone, Karli 
 | 1. Marti-Renom, M. A.; et al., Comparative protein structure modeling of genes and genomes. Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 2000,29,291-325
 2. Moult, J., A decade of CASP: progress, bottlenecks and prognosis in protein structure prediction. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 2005,15, 285-9
 | 1. Fiser, A.; et al., Evolution and physics in comparative protein structure modeling. Acc. Chem. Res. 2002, 35, 413-21
 2. Kryshtafovych, A.; et al., Progress over the first decade of CASP experiments. Proteins 2005, 61 Suppl 7, 225-36
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| 2019.10.14 Wed | Predicting Protein Structure Part III
 Accelerated MD for Blind Protein Prediction MD x-ray refinement 
 | 1. Stepanenko, Darya  
 2. Ertem, Fatma 
 | 1. Perez, A.; et al., Blind protein structure prediction using accelerated free-energy simulations. Sci. Adv. 2016, 2
 2. Brunger, A. T.;Adams, P. D., Molecular dynamics applied to X-ray structure refinement. Acc. Chem. Res. 2002, 35, 404-12
 | 2. Adams, P. D.; et al., Extending the limits of molecular replacement through combined simulated annealing and maximum-likelihood refinement. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 1999, 55, 181-90
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| 2019.10.19 Mon | Quiz Prior Section III SECTION IV: LEAD DISCOVERY
 Introduction to DOCK
 | 1. Telehany, Stephen 
 | 1. Moustakas, D. T.; et al., Development and Validation of a Modular, Extensible Docking program: DOCK 5. J. Comput. Aided Mol. Des. 2006, 20, 601-619
 | 1. Ewing, T. J.; et al., DOCK 4.0: search strategies for automated molecular docking of flexible molecule databases. J. Comput. Aided Mol. Des. 2001, 15, 411-28
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| 2019.10.21 Wed | Test Sets (binding modes) Test Sets (virtual screening)
 | 1. Samoilova, Khristina 
 2. He, Miaomiao  
 | 1. Mukherjee, S.; et al., Docking Validation Resources: Protein Family and Ligand Flexibility Experiments. J. Chem. Info. Model. 2010, 50, 1986-2000
 2. Irwin, J. J.; Shoichet, B. K., ZINC--a free database of commercially available compounds for virtual screening. J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2005, 45, 177-82
 | 1. The CCDC/Astex Test Set
 2. ZINC Website at UCSF, Shoichet group
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| 2019.10.26 Mon | Database EnrichmentFootprint-based scoring
 | 1. Chakraborti, Shreyoshi 
 2. Zhang, Hong  
 | 1. Huang, N.; et al., Benchmarking Sets for Molecular Docking. J. Med. Chem. 2006, 49(23), 6789-6801
 2. Balius, T.E.; et al., Implementation and Evaluation of a Docking-Rescoring Method Using Molecular Footprint Comparisons. J. Comput. Chem. 2011, 32, 2273-2289.
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| 2019.10.28 Wed | Hotspot probes (GRID) COMFA 
 | 1. Zhu, Chuanzhou 
 2. Arachchi, Kalani 
 | 1. Goodford, P. J., A computational procedure for determining energetically favorable binding sites on biologically important macromolecules. J. Med. Chem. 1985, 28, 849-57
 2. Kubinyi, H., Comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA). Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry, Databases and Expert Systems Section, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 1998
 | 1. Cramer, R. D.; Patterson, D. E.; Bunce, J. D., Comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA). 1. Effect of shape on binding of steroids to carrier proteins. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1988, 110, 5959-5967
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| 2019.11.02 Mon | Pharmacophores in drug design #1Pharmacophores in drug design #2 
 | 1. McHugh, Ryan  
 2. King, Morgan 
 | 1. Chang, C.; et al., Pharmacophore-based discovery of ligands for drug transporters. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews 2006, 58, 1431-1450
 2. Alvarez, J.; et al., Pharmacophore-Based Molecular Docking to Account for Ligand Flexibility. Proteins 2003, 51, 172-188 
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| 2019.11.04 Wed | De novo design Genetic Algorithm 
 | 1. & 2.  Presentation 
 Prentis, Lauren 
 | 1. Cheron, N.; et al., OpenGrowth: An Automated and Rational Algorithm for Finding New Protein Ligands. J. Med. Chem. 2016, 59, 4171-4188
 2. Pegg, S. C.; Haresco, J. J.; Kuntz, I. D., A genetic algorithm for structure-based de novo design. J Comput Aided Mol Des 2001, 15, 911-33
 | - 1. Jorgensen, W.; et al., Efficient drug lead discovery and optimization. Acc. of Chem. Research 2009, 42 (6), 724-733
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| 2019.11.09 Mon | Quiz Prior Section IV SECTION V: LEAD REFINEMENT
 Free Energy Perturbation (FEP)
 Thermolysin with two ligands 
 | 1. Wang, Hehe
 | 1. Bash, P. A.; Singh, U. C.; Brown, F. K.; Langridge, R.; Kollman, P. A., Calculation of the relative change in binding free energy of a protein-inhibitor complex. Science 1987, 235, 574-6
 | 1. Jorgensen, W. L., Free Energy Calculations:  A Breakthrough for Modeling Organic Chemistry in Solution. Accounts Chem. Res. 1989, 22, 184-189
 1. Kollman, P., Free Energy Calculations:  Applications to Chemical and Biochemical Phenomena. Chem. Rev. 1993, 93, 2395-2417
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| 2019.11.11 Wed | Thermodynamic integration MM-PB/GBSA
 Free energy calculation using TI Intro to Molecular Mechanics Poisson-Boltzmann / Generalized Born Surface Area Methods 
 | 1. Zhang, Yunlei  
 2. Moalemi, Debbi 
 | 1. Labahn, A.; et al., Free energy calculations on the binding of novel thiolactomycin derivatives to E. coli fatty acid synthase I. Bioorg Med Chem. 2012, 20, 3446-53
 2. Kollman, P. A.; Massova, I.; Reyes, C.; Kuhn, B.; Huo, S. H.; Chong, L.; Lee, M.; Lee, T.; Duan, Y.; Wang, W.; Donini, O.; Cieplak, P.; Srinivasan, J.; Case, D. A.; Cheatham, T. E., Calculating structures and free energies of complex molecules: Combining molecular mechanics and continuum models. Accounts Chem. Res. 2000, 33, 889-897
 | 1. Lawrenz, M.; et al., Independent-Trajectories Thermodynamic-Integration Free-Energy Changes for Biomolecular Systems: Determinants of H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus Neuraminidase Inhibition by Peramivir. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2009, 5, 1106-1116
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| 2019.11.16 Mon | EGFR and mutantsErbB family selectivity 
 | 1. Faizi, Aymon 
 2. Earlie, Ethan 
 | 1. Balius, T.E.; Rizzo, R. C. Quantitative Prediction of Fold Resistance for Inhibitors of EGFR. Biochemistry, 2009, 48, 8435-8448
 2. Huang, Y.; Rizzo, R. C. A Water-based Mechanism of Specificity and Resistance for Lapatinib with ErbB Family Kinases, Biochemistry, 2012, 51, 2390-2406
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| 2019.11.18 Wed | Intro to Linear Response (LR method) Inhibition of protein kinases (Extended LR method) 
 | 1. Stepanenko, Darya 
 2. Fatma, Ertem 
 | 1. Aqvist, J.; Mowbray, S. L., Sugar recognition by a glucose/galactose receptor. Evaluation of binding energetics from molecular dynamics simulations. J Biol Chem 1995, 270, 9978-81
 2. Tominaga, Y.; Jorgensen, W. L.; General model for estimation of the inhibition of protein kinases using Monte Carlo simulations. J. Med. Chem. 2004, 47, 2534-2549
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| 2019.11.23 Mon |  | - | - | - | 
| 2019.11.23 Wed |  | - | - | - | 
| 2019.11.30 Mon | Properties of Known Drugs
 Molecular Scaffolds (frameworks) and functionality (side-chains)Lipinski Rule of Five
 | 1. Basu, Rajeswari 
 2. Samoilova, Khristina 
 | 1. Bemis, G. W.; Murcko, M. A., The properties of known drugs. 1. Molecular frameworks. J. Med. Chem. 1996, 39, 2887-93
 1. Bemis, G. W.; Murcko, M. A., Properties of known drugs. 2. Side chains. J. Med. Chem. 1999, 42, 5095-9
 2. Lipinski, C. A.; Lombardo, F.; Dominy, B. W.; Feeney, P. J., Experimental and computational approaches to estimate solubility and permeability in drug discovery and development settings. Adv. Drug. Deliv. Rev. 2001, 46, 3-26
 | 2. Lipinski, C. A., Chris Lipinski discusses life and chemistry after the Rule of Five. Drug. Discov. Today 2003, 8, 12-6
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| 2019.12.02 Wed |  | - | final_exam_study_guide | - | 
| 2019.12.07 Mon |  | - | final_exam_study_guide
Thermodynamic Cycles
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| - |  | - | No Final Exam in AMS-535/CHE-535 for Fall 2020 | - |