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Chemistry

D-Index
41
Citations
25315
World Ranking
17648
National Ranking
4304

Best Publications

  • A Second Generation Force Field for the Simulation of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Organic Molecules

    Wendy D. Cornell;Piotr Cieplak;Piotr Cieplak;Christopher I. Bayly;Christopher I. Bayly;Ian R. Gould;Ian R. Gould

  • AMBER, a package of computer programs for applying molecular mechanics, normal mode analysis, molecular dynamics and free energy calculations to simulate the structural and energetic properties of molecules

    David A. Pearlman;David A. Case;James W. Caldwell;Wilson S. Ross

  • A Second Generation Force Field for the Simulation of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Organic Molecules J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 5179−5197

    Wendy D. Cornell;Piotr Cieplak;Christopher I. Bayly;Ian R. Gould

  • Isothermal-isobaric molecular dynamics simulations with Monte Carlo volume sampling

    Kim Hung Chow;David M. Ferguson

  • Constant temperature simulations using the Langevin equation with velocity Verlet integration

    M.Germana Paterlini;David M Ferguson

  • A new approach to probing conformational space with molecular mechanics: Random incremental pulse search

    David M. Ferguson;Douglas J. Raber

  • Polymeric nanoparticles encapsulating novel TLR7/8 agonists as immunostimulatory adjuvants for enhanced cancer immunotherapy.

    Hyunjoon Kim;Lin Niu;Peter Larson;Tamara A. Kucaba

  • Synthesis and evaluation of acridine- and acridone-based anti-herpes agents with topoisomerase activity.

    John R. Goodell;Avni A. Madhok;Hiroshi Hiasa;David M. Ferguson

  • Identification of Compounds with Anti-West Nile Virus Activity

    John R. Goodell;Francesc Puig-Basagoiti;Brett M. Forshey;Pei Yong Shi

  • Parameterization and evaluation of a flexible water model

    David M. Ferguson

  • Cation−π Interactions: An Energy Decomposition Analysis and Its Implication in δ-Opioid Receptor−Ligand Binding

    Yirong Mo;Govindan Subramanian;Jiali Gao;David M. Ferguson

  • Triaryl Pyrazoline Compound Inhibits Flavivirus RNA Replication

    Francesc Puig-Basagoiti;Mark Tilgner;Brett M. Forshey;Sean M. Philpott;Sean M. Philpott

  • High-Throughput Assays Using a Luciferase-Expressing Replicon, Virus-Like Particles, and Full-Length Virus for West Nile Virus Drug Discovery

    Francesc Puig-Basagoiti;Tia S. Deas;Ping Ren;Mark Tilgner

  • Synthesis and cancer cell cytotoxicity of substituted xanthenes.

    Rajan Giri;John R. Goodell;Chengguo Xing;Adam Benoit

  • Potent and Selective Indolomorphinan Antagonists of the Kappa-Opioid Receptor

    William C. Stevens;Robert M. Jones;Govindan Subramanian;Thomas G. Metzger

  • Acridine-based agents with topoisomerase II activity inhibit pancreatic cancer cell proliferation and induce apoptosis.

    John R. Goodell;Andrei V. Ougolkov;Hiroshi Hiasa;Harneet Kaur

  • Molecular Docking Reveals a Novel Binding Site Model for Fentanyl at the μ-Opioid Receptor

    G Subramanian;M G Paterlini;P S Portoghese;D M Ferguson

  • Molecular recognition of opioid receptor ligands.

    Brian E. Kane;Bengt Svensson;David M. Ferguson

  • Can the Lennard—Jones 6-12 function replace the 10-12 form in molecular mechanics calculations?

    David M. Ferguson;Peter A. Kollman

  • Determination of the relative binding free energies of peptide inhibitors to the HIV-1 protease.

    David M. Ferguson;Randall J. Radmer;Peter A. Kollman

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip S. Portoghese
Philip S. Portoghese University of Minnesota
Peter A. Kollman
Peter A. Kollman University of California, San Francisco
Thomas S. Griffith
Thomas S. Griffith University of Minnesota
Raymond C. Rosen
Raymond C. Rosen New England Research Institutes
Pei-Yong Shi
Pei-Yong Shi GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
Piotr Cieplak
Piotr Cieplak Discovery Institute
Leonard R. Derogatis
Leonard R. Derogatis Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Sandra R. Leiblum
Sandra R. Leiblum Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Thomas R. Fox
Thomas R. Fox Boehringer Ingelheim (Germany)

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