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. 2020 Dec 3;60(12):6298–6313. doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.0c01038

Table 1. Free (Green) and Commercial (Salmon) Software for the Conformation Generation of Macrocycles and Their Working Principles.

methodology description usage
Moloc macrocycle shapes are characterized by a selection of harmonics which occur in an approximate Fourier representation of the atomic coordinates of the rings.42 free
Conformator incremental construction of conformers with torsional angle assignment and a new deterministic cluster algorithm.46 free
CCDC ring template libraries to describe ring geometries using based on the wealth of experimental data in CSD. free
ETKDG stochastic search method that utilizes DG together with knowledge derived from experimental crystal structures.47,48 free
MOE perturbation of an existing conformation along a MD’ trajectory using initial atomic velocities with kinetic energy focused on the low-frequency vibrational modes and energy minimization.38 commercial
Prime ring splitting to create to two half rings that are sampled independently and recombined.49 commercial
MD Desmond from Schrödinger suite 2014-4 chosen as a baseline method (MaestroDesmond Interoperability Tools; Schrödinger: New York, NY, 2014). commercial
MM brief MD simulations followed by minimization and normal-mode search steps.39 commercial