The Correlation between Similarity of Amino Acid Interaction Potentials and Structure Similarity

Abstract

For middle molecule drug discovery, a coarse-grained model in which amino acid residues were treated with an amino acid pair interaction was investigated. To treat both natural and artificial types of amino acids and staples, new interaction potentials were developed by umbrella sampling. For any artificial types of amino acids, the amino acid its potential was similar enough was extracted by using our method applied the structure similarity.