Computational Bioinorganics: From Description to Prediction - Hardcover

by Jean-Didier Maréchal (Editor)

An in-depth overview of what computation can do in bioinorganic chemistry, written for experimentalists and theoreticians working at the interface between chemistry and biology

Until recently, the field of computational bioinorganics has been governed by the application of quantum mechanical approaches. The emergence of metal-related biomolecular fields and increased computational capabilities have enabled the development of novel artificial metalloenzymes, new metallodrugs strategies, and advanced biosensor technologies.

Computational Bioinorganics: From Description to Prediction provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field, covering a wide range of computational approaches, strategies, and applications. Contributions from a team of experts in bioinorganic chemistry discuss recent advances in sequence and structural bioinformatics, multi-scale strategies, large-scale molecular dynamics, and more. Divided into three parts, the book opens with a thorough introduction to computational bioinorganic chemistry, followed by an extensive summary of the computational methods available in bioinorganic chemistry. The book concludes with a series of detailed reviews of various applications, including computational studies of metal-mediated folding and computer-aided metalloenzyme design.

• Discusses the difference between fields in which bioinorganics are well established and those under active development
• Describes the complexities of biometallic systems and how computation can be applied to bioinorganic systems
• Presents the recent advances, advantages, and limitations of each computational approach covered
• Covers a variety of applications of computational bioinorganics, including prediction of metal binding sites and characterization of the interaction of metallodrugs with biomolecules.

Edited by a recognized leader in the field, Computational Bioinorganics: From Description to Prediction is an essential resource for academic and industrial researchers working in the fields of bioinorganic chemistry, coordination chemistry, biochemistry, computational chemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics, and protein engineering.

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An in-depth overview of what computation can do in bioinorganic chemistry, written for experimentalists and theoreticians

The last decades have shown the emergence of numerous exiting fields in bioinorganic chemistry, such as the design of de novo metalloenzymes, the discovery of new bioactive metallodrugs, or the characterization of molecular mechanisms by which living organisms acquire their metal. In parallel, the computational chemistry community has been working hard on optimizing its framework to deal with biometallic systems; a phenomenon magnified by the increase of computational power and the advent of AI approaches.

Computational Bioinorganics: From Description to Prediction provides an updated view on the current state-of-the-art of the field. The book first intends to clarify how computational and experimental researchers in bioinorganic chemistry can now collaborate under this new computational paradigm. It then follows with a series of chapters that cover a wide range of computational approaches, strategies, and applications. Contributions from a team of experts in computational chemistry expose methods that range from structural bioinformatics, quantum chemistry, large-scale molecular dynamics or multi-scale strategies. They illustrate how these tools can be applied to a wide variety of topics such as the modeling of metal-mediated folding processes, the computer-aided design of metalloenzymes, spectroscopic analysis, the prediction of metal binding sites in proteins or the characterization of the interaction of metallodrugs with biomolecules.

Edited by a recognized leader in the field, Computational Bioinorganics: From Description to Prediction is an essential resource for academic and industrial researchers working in the fields of bioinorganic chemistry, coordination chemistry, biochemistry, computational chemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics, and protein engineering.

Author Biography

Jean-Didier Maréchal is a Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Spain. An expert in modeling bioinorganic systems, Professor Maréchal's research focuses on computational bioinorganics applied to topics such as the design of artificial metalloenzymes, metallopeptides, and metallodrugs, as well as uncovering the molecular mechanisms that sustain metal homeostasis in humans and pathogens.