Bagchi Angshuman
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India.
Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility Centre, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India.
Methods Mol Biol. 2025;2952:1-13. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4690-8_1.
Molecular modeling is a process to predict the structure of a molecule in the absence of wet-lab-based methods. This is a computational prediction process and is often used as a starting point for bench works. There are different algorithms available for the purpose with varying degrees of accuracies. In general, the main focus of the work is directed toward building the structures of biological macromolecules or their complexes. In this review the basic principle of methods of molecular modeling will be reviewed. A special emphasis will be given on thermodynamic aspects of molecular interactions involved in the process of building of the models. The flowchart of the method will be provided. Finally, the algorithm behind some of the popular modeling tools will be analyzed. The readers of the article may gain some first-hand knowledge of the process, which they might use for their computational experimentations.
分子建模是在缺乏基于湿实验室方法的情况下预测分子结构的过程。这是一个计算预测过程,通常用作实验工作的起点。为此目的有不同的算法,其准确性程度各不相同。一般来说,工作的主要重点是构建生物大分子或其复合物的结构。在这篇综述中,将回顾分子建模方法的基本原理。将特别强调模型构建过程中涉及的分子相互作用的热力学方面。将提供该方法的流程图。最后,将分析一些流行建模工具背后的算法。本文的读者可能会获得该过程的一些第一手知识,他们可以将其用于自己的计算实验。