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What is Alchemistry?

Alchemical free energy calculations employ unphysical ("alchemical") intermediates to estimate the free energies of various physical processes. Such process include ligand binding to a protein receptor, the transfer of a small molecule from gas to water, or the free energy of a mutation of a side chain. This approach provides not only a quantitative and rigorous method for computing free energies, but often provides insight into the dominant interactions driving binding.

Getting Started with Free Energy Methods

This site is designed to both give novices best practices information about how to perform free energy calculations, and to provide an ongoing reference for the current state of research into methods for calculating free energies.

Free Energy Fundamentals

Learn the methods and techniques behind free energy methods with in-depth coverage of free energy definitions and topics.

Best Practices in Free Energy Methods

Our recommendations on how alchemical free energy calculations ought to be done, with supporting literature citations and evidence from our own work.

Free Energy References

An editable, categorized list of references with annotations relating to free energy calculations, so you can stay abreast of the latest literature, add links to your own work, and comment. The database is implemented as a CiteULike group, with over 700 articles. And probably there are another 700 that we should have up, so please join and add your favorite papers (especially your own work!)

Once you join the group, adding new articles is easy with the | Cite-u-Like bookmarklet

Events: Conferences relating to free energy methods.

Example Free Energy Calculations

A look into practical examples without software-specific details. We outline the steps needed for realistic free energy problem, detailing problems you can expect to encounter, and how to analyze the data to get a robust free energy difference.

Tutorials and How-to's

Tutorials for conducting several specific alchemical free energy calculations with a variety of simulation packages, to allow beginners to get their feet wet. These guides will walk you through setting up software-specific free energy simulations and their analysis.

Test System Repository

A repository of standard test systems (including parameters, often in multiple file formats) for alchemical free energy calculations, along with known results with those parameters, and benchmark test sets.

Job postings

Job postings in computational chemistry and alchemical free energy calculations.

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 = What is Alchemistry? =
-Alchemical free energy calculations employ unphysical ("alchemical") intermediates to estimate the free energies of various physical processes, such as the free energy of ligand binding to a macromolecular receptor, or the transfer of a small molecule from gas to water. The alchemistry.org logo graphic above depicts such an example, where the free energy of ligand binding to a protein receptor is computed by computationally simulating alchemical intermediates with weakened interactions with the rest of the system. This approach provides not only a quantitative and rigorous method for computing free energies, but often provides insight into the dominant physical contributions to binding affinity.
+Alchemical free energy calculations employ unphysical ("alchemical") intermediates to estimate the free energies of various physical processes.  Such process include ligand binding to a protein receptor, the transfer of a small molecule from gas to water, or the free energy of a mutation of a side chain.  This approach provides not only a quantitative and rigorous method for computing free energies, but often provides insight into the dominant interactions driving binding.
-= What is here? =
+=Getting Started with Free Energy Methods=
-In these pages, we will provide information about these alchemical free energy calculations. This information falls into several categories, and some are is still to be prepared.
+This site is designed to both give novices best practices information about how to perform free energy calculations, and to provide an ongoing reference for the current state of research into methods for calculating free energies.
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+| style="color:#000;" | <div id="mp-tfa" style="padding:2px 5px">[[file:Transformation_small.png|frameless|center]]<br/>Learn the methods and techniques behind free energy methods with in-depth coverage of free energy definitions and topics.</div>
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+| style="color:#000; padding:2px 5px 5px;" | <div id="mp-dyk">Our recommendations on how alchemical free energy calculations ought to be done, with supporting literature citations and evidence from our own work.</div>
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+| style="color:#000; padding:2px 5px 5px;" | <div id="mp-dyk">An editable, categorized list of references with annotations relating to free energy calculations, so you can stay abreast of the latest literature, add links to your own work, and comment.  The database is implemented as a [http://www.citeulike.org/group/14929 CiteULike group], with over 700 articles.  And probably there are another 700 that we should have up, so please join and add your favorite papers (especially your own work!)
+Once you join the group, adding new articles is easy with the [http://www.citeulike.org/bookmarklets.adp | Cite-u-Like bookmarklet]
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+| style="color:#000; padding:2px 5px;" | <div id="mp-itn">A look into practical examples without software-specific details. We outline the steps needed for realistic free energy problem, detailing problems you can expect to encounter, and how to analyze the data to get a robust free energy difference.</div>
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+| style="color:#000; padding:2px 5px 5px;" | <div id="mp-otd">[[file:ligandtranslate.png|frameless|center]]<br/>Tutorials for conducting several specific alchemical free energy calculations with a variety of simulation packages, to allow beginners to get their feet wet. These guides will walk you through setting up software-specific free energy simulations and their analysis.</div>
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-* [[Best Practices]]: Our recommendations on how alchemical free energy calculations ought to be done, with supporting literature citations and evidence from our own work.
+= About the Alchemistry.org wiki =
-* [[Free Energy Fundamentals]]: In-depth coverage of free energy definitions and topics.  More complete than the [[Best Practices]] Section
-* [[Gromacs Tutorials]]: A set of tutorials for conducting several specific alchemical free energy calculations with the GROMACS simulation package, to allow beginners to get their feet wet.
-* [http://www.citeulike.org/groupfunc/14929/home Free Energy References]: An editable, categorized list of references with annotations relating to free energy calculations, so you can stay abreast of the latest literature, add links to your own work, and comment.  The database is implemented as a CiteULike group, with over 700 articles.  And probably there are another 700 that we should have up, so please join and add your favorite papers (as well as your own work!)
-* [[Free Energy Tools]]: Some tools related to free energy calculations. These are evolving over time.
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