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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Chem Theory Comput. 2010 Sep 14;6(9):2961–2977. doi: 10.1021/ct1002913

Table 2.

Lowest and average binding energies and corresponding ligand rankings.

Molecule Rank(calc)a min(u)b min(u)-rankc u1d u1-ranke
L99A Apolar Cavity
iso-butylbenzene 1 -27.3 1 -20.4 1
benzene 2 -17.8 7 -12.5 7
toluene 3 -20.2 5 -14.8 5
indole 4 -22.9 4 -16.3 4
ter-butylbenzene 5 -24.7 2 -18.4 2
cyclohexane 6 -19.6 6 -14.1 6
1,3,5-trimethylbenzene 7 -22.9 3 -16.8 3
phenol 8 -17.5 8 -11.7 8

Rank order CC:f 0.36 0.36

L99A/M102Q Polar Cavity
toluene 1 -20.0 6 -14.8 6
phenol 2 -21.4 5 -16.1 3
3-chlorophenol 3 -23.5 2 -17.6 1
catechol 4 -22.9 3 -16.7 2
4-vinylpiridine 5 -18.7 7 -13.6 7
4-chloro-1h-pyrazole 6 -18.7 8 -12.4 8
2-aminophenol 7 -22.9 4 -15.0 5
phenylhydrazine 8 -26.2 1 -15.7 4

Rank order CC:f -0.21 0.38
a

Ligand rankings based on the calculated binding free energies (from Table 1).

b

Lowest binding energy found over the conformations sampled from the HREM simulation.

c

Ligand rankings based on lowest binding energy values.

d

Average binding energy at λ = 1.

e

Ligand rankings based on average binding energy values.

f

Rank order correlation coefficients between lowest/average binding energy rankings (4th and 6th column, respectively) and binding free energy rankings (2nd column).