Gilson M K, Given J A, Head M S
Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850 USA.
Chem Biol. 1997 Feb;4(2):87-92. doi: 10.1016/s1074-5521(97)90251-9.
Models for predicting the binding affinities of molecules in solution are either very detailed, making them computationally intensive and hard to test, or very simple, and thus less informative than one might wish. A new class of models that focus on the predominant states of the binding molecules promise to capture the essential physics of binding at modest computational cost.