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LocalSCF 2.0 Rev. 2007.08.27

  • The following bugs have been fixed:

    • Energy oscillations in QM docking,

    • Dispersion correction (LJ) was not working in QM docking.

LocalSCF 2.0 Rev. 2007.06.29

  • Amino acid based selection of SCF and non-SCF parts of molecular structure in QM/QM mode.

  • Lennard-Jones (LJ) energy correction.

  • Geometry optimization including LJ term.

  • DNA and Protein LJ parameters.

  • Generic ligand LJ parameter assignment based on MMFF atom types.

  • LJ parameter storage in external parameter file.

  • Ligand optimization in QM/QM mode in gas-phase and COSMO.

  • Flexible-ligand high throughput docking in gas-phase and COSMO.

  • Export of optimized geometry in PDB file.

  • CM2 and CM3 charges.

  • Output of Mulliken, CM2 and CM3 charges in MOL2 file.

  • Ligand conformation generator for ligand bound to protein.

  • Langevin and NVT Molecular Dynamics of proteins in gas-phase and COSMO.

  • 64-bit support on Linux platform.

LocalSCF2 version 1.0

  • Support for transition metal systems (d-orbitals).

    • Transition metal complexes are supported through d-orbital extension of general purpose MNDO, AM1, PM3 and PM5 semiempirical Hamiltonians.

    • All atom quantum-mechanical modeling of enzymes and DNA - transition metal complexes is made available for hundred thousand atoms systems.

    • Energy calculation, geometry optimization in gas-phase and solvent environment are supported.

    • Low resource requirement is provided by the use of localized molecular orbitals for the protein part and delocalized orbitals for the transition metal portion of the system.

  • Support for DNA/RNA systems.

    • Computationally efficient initial guess generation for DNA/RNA systems is implemented.

    • DNA/RNA structure recognition allows reliable identification of structure errors.

  • Improvements to COSMO solvation model.

    • New analytical gradients for geometry optimization are implemented.

    • Support for d-orbitals systems is added.

    • A considerable speed up is provided for local geometry optimization in solvent environment.

  • Quantum-mechanical docking and scoring.

    • High-throughput screening of thousand compounds libraries of drug candidates is implemented.

    • QM scoring of all atom protein-ligand complexes is provided for gas phase and solvent environment.

    • QM re-docking of preliminary docked ligands is available through ligand relaxation in the protein-ligand complexes.

    • Resource saving QM/QM mode allows freezing molecular orbitals of a portion of the system.

  • General improvements and bug fixes.

    • New improved initial guess generator.

    • More reliable SCF procedure.

    • Automatic control for memory consumption - orbital tidying.

    • Restart of a terminated job from last saved topology and density matrix.

    • PDB input/output filter which allows running calculation from an external regular PDB file and saving results in the PDB format.

    • A powerful Cartesian coordinate - PDB converter is implemented.

    • Molecular topology input/output filter allows initial guess generation based on the information imported from the external topology file.

    • Topology preservation mode allows applying restriction to bond breaking/creation.

    • Bond order analysis for very large systems is implemented.

LocalSCF 2003

  • Runs on popular PC platform.

  • Ultra large 100,000+ atoms' protein systems.

  • Very fast advanced geometry optimization specially tuned for proteins.

    • Recognition of protein structure from Cartesian coordinates.

    • Structure quality checking and verification.

    • Identification of various molecular fragments: amino acid backbone, side-chain, terminal atoms, water molecules, and counterions.

    • Intuitive and easy for use interface for specification of geometry optimization modes by defining particular fragments or amino acid numbers.

    • Keyword based recognition and on-fly optimization of drug molecules in the enzyme cavity.

  • Powerful control options for balancing between speed and accuracy.

  • Linear scaling COSMO solvation model.

    • Continuum conductor like screening model implemented.

    • Small additional resource requirement with the multiplier 2 for memory versus the gas phase mode.

    • Geometry optimization in COSMO model.

  • Fast Multipole Method for evaluation of Coulomb integrals.

    • Assures very low memory requirement, extremely fast calculation of large systems and high accuracy of evaluation of Coulomb interactions.

    • Provides flexible control over the resource consumption.

  • True variational linear scalability.

    • Retains high accuracy for short localized molecular orbitals (the shorter LMOs the less RAM is consumed).

    • Provides an optimal user-controllable balance between speed and accuracy.

    • The built-in mechanism for accuracy validation allows comparison of molecular properties in connection with particular keyword options.

  • Semiempirical Hamiltonians: MNDO, AM1, PM3, and PM5.