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Lambda-ABF: Simplified, Accurate and Cost-effective Alchemical Free Energy Computations

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We introduce an efficient and robust method to compute alchemical free energy differences, resulting from the application of multiple walker Adaptive Biasing Force (ABF) in conjunction with strongly damped Langevin $\lambda$-dynamics. Unbiased alchemical free energy surfaces are naturally recovered by Thermodynamic Integration (TI). No manual optimization of the lambda schedule is required as the sampling of the lambda variable is continuous and converges towards a uniform distribution. Free diffusion of lambda improves orthogonal relaxation compared to fixed lambda methods such as standard TI or Free Energy Perturbation (FEP). Furthermore, the multiple walker strategy provides coverage of orthogonal space in a generic way with minimal user input and negligible computational overhead. Of practical importance, no adiabatic decoupling between the alchemical and Cartesian degrees of freedom is assumed, ensuring unbiased estimates for a wide envelope of numerical parameters. We present two high-performance implementations of the method in production molecular dynamics engines, namely NAMD and Tinker-HP, through coupling with the Colvars open source library. These interfaces enable the combination of the rich feature sets of those packages. We demonstrate the correctness and efficiency of the approach on several real-world cases: from solvation free energies up to ligand-receptor binding (using a recently proposed binding restraint scheme) with both fixed-charge and polarizable models. We find that, for a chosen accuracy, the computational cost is strongly reduced compared to state-of-the-art fixed-lambda methods and that results within 1~kcal/mol of experimental value are recovered for the most complex system. The implementation is publicly available and readily usable by practitioners of current alchemical methods.

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hal-04162777 , version 1 (16-07-2023)

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Louis Lagardère, Lise Maurin, Olivier Adjoua, Krystel EL Hage, Pierre Monmarché, et al.. Lambda-ABF: Simplified, Accurate and Cost-effective Alchemical Free Energy Computations. 2023. ⟨hal-04162777⟩
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