Q-CHEM INC — Department of Health and Human Services SBIR Phase II: 400

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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Q Chem is a state of the art commercial computational quantum chemistry program that has aided tens of thousands users in their modeling of molecular processes in a wide range of disciplines including biology chemistry and materials science In quantum chemistry density functional theory DFT and second order Moller Plesset theory MP are already heavily used in the development of molecular mechanics force fields and in the hybrid quantum mechanical molecular mechanical simulations of protein ligand binding affinities and enzymatic reaction free energies despite their accuracy and computational cost limitations To address these limitations we seek to advance double hybrid density functionals DHDFs for computing conformational and binding energies Specifically we aim to Further enhance the computational efficiency of the short range MP SR MP method which was developed in our Phase I research and demonstrated to yield unprecedented accuracy and efficiency Build new double hybrid density functionals on top of our SR MP in order to further extend its applicability and Demonstrate the use of both SR MP and associated new DHDFs in chemical and biological problems The new tools coming out of this Phase II research will outperform existing DFT and MP methods and yield improved accuracy with reduced computational cost opening new applications as well as improving existing ones in chemical biochemical and biomedical research This work will further strengthen Q Chemandapos s position as a global leader in the molecular modeling software market making our program the most efficient and reliable computational quantum chemistry package for simulating large complex chemical biological systems PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE This project aims to develop the fastest software for accurately predicting the conformational energies of biopolymer such as peptides proteins carbohydrates and the binding affinities between a ligand and a receptor Building upon sophisticated quantum mechanics this can lead to reliable and efficient computational tools for use in computer aided drug design and in the simulation of large complex chemical biological systems