Piero Procacci

About Piero Procacci

Piero Procacci, With an exceptional h-index of 42 and a recent h-index of 24 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Università degli Studi di Firenze, specializes in the field of chemical physics, biophysics, drug design, molecular dynamics, nonequilibrium thermodynamics.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Identification of Potential Inhibitors of the SARS‐CoV‐2 NSP13 Helicase via Structure‐Based Ligand Design, Molecular Docking and Nonequilibrium Alchemical Simulations

Addressing Suboptimal Poses in Nonequilibrium Alchemical Calculations

Dealing with Induced Fit, Conformational Selection, and Secondary Poses in Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Reliable Free Energy Predictions

NE‐RDFE: A protocol and toolkit for computing relative dissociation free energies with GROMACS between dissimilar molecules using bidirectional nonequilibrium dual topology schemes

SAMPL9 blind predictions for toluene/water partition coefficients using nonequilibrium alchemical approaches

A nonequilibrium alchemical method for drug-receptor absolute binding free energy calculations: the role of restraints

A compound for the determination of the protein fkbp12 and a sensor unit comprising it

2-Butanol aqueous solutions: A combined molecular dynamics and small/wide-angle X-ray scattering study

Piero Procacci Information

University

Position

Computational chemist

Citations(all)

5362

Citations(since 2020)

1808

Cited By

4236

hIndex(all)

42

hIndex(since 2020)

24

i10Index(all)

96

i10Index(since 2020)

52

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Piero Procacci Skills & Research Interests

chemical physics

biophysics

drug design

molecular dynamics

nonequilibrium thermodynamics

Top articles of Piero Procacci

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Identification of Potential Inhibitors of the SARS‐CoV‐2 NSP13 Helicase via Structure‐Based Ligand Design, Molecular Docking and Nonequilibrium Alchemical Simulations

ChemMedChem

Giorgio Di Paco

Marina Macchiagodena

Piero Procacci

2024/3/8

Addressing Suboptimal Poses in Nonequilibrium Alchemical Calculations

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Maurice Karrenbrock

Valerio Rizzi

Piero Procacci

Francesco Luigi Gervasio

2024/2/7

Dealing with Induced Fit, Conformational Selection, and Secondary Poses in Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Reliable Free Energy Predictions

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Piero Procacci

2023/12/1

NE‐RDFE: A protocol and toolkit for computing relative dissociation free energies with GROMACS between dissimilar molecules using bidirectional nonequilibrium dual topology schemes

Journal of Computational Chemistry

Marina Macchiagodena

Marco Pagliai

Piero Procacci

2023/5/5

SAMPL9 blind predictions for toluene/water partition coefficients using nonequilibrium alchemical approaches

The Journal of Chemical Physics

Piero Procacci

Guido Guarnieri

2023/3/28

A nonequilibrium alchemical method for drug-receptor absolute binding free energy calculations: the role of restraints

Maurice Karrenbrock

Piero Procacci

Francesco Luigi Gervasio

2023/2/28

A compound for the determination of the protein fkbp12 and a sensor unit comprising it

2023/2/2

2-Butanol aqueous solutions: A combined molecular dynamics and small/wide-angle X-ray scattering study

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Marina Macchiagodena

Gavino Bassu

Irene Vettori

Emiliano Fratini

Piero Procacci

...

2022/11/17

Does Hamiltonian replica exchange via lambda-hopping enhance the sampling in alchemical free energy calculations?

Molecules

Piero Procacci

2022/7/11

Relative binding free energy between chemically distant compounds using a bidirectional nonequilibrium approach

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Piero Procacci

2022/6/1

SAMPL9 blind predictions using nonequilibrium alchemical approaches

The Journal of Chemical Physics

Piero Procacci

Guido Guarnieri

2022/4/28

Characterization of the non-covalent interaction between the PF-07321332 inhibitor and the SARS-CoV-2 main protease

Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling

Marina Macchiagodena

Marco Pagliai

Piero Procacci

2022/1/1

Mycotoxins aptasensing: From molecular docking to electrochemical detection of deoxynivalenol

Bioelectrochemistry

Hasret Subak

Giulia Selvolini

Marina Macchiagodena

Dilsat Ozkan-Ariksoysal

Marco Pagliai

...

2021/4/1

Virtual double-system single-box for absolute dissociation free energy calculations in GROMACS

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Marina Macchiagodena

Maurice Karrenbrock

Marco Pagliai

Piero Procacci

2021/11/1

High Performance Computing on CRESCO Infrastructure research activities and results 2019

Piero Procacci

2021

On the NS-DSSB unidirectional estimates in the SAMPL6 SAMPLing challenge

Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design

Piero Procacci

Marina Macchiagodena

2021/10

HPC-DRIVEN HIT-TO-LEAD PROCESS FOR SARS-COV-2 MAIN PROTEASE INHIBITION

Piero Procacci

Marina Macchiagodena

Marco Pagliai

2021

Binding free energy predictions in host-guest systems using Autodock4. A retrospective analysis on SAMPL6, SAMPL7 and SAMPL8 challenges

Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design

Lorenzo Casbarra

Piero Procacci

2021/6

Nonequilibrium Alchemical Simulations for the Development of Drugs Against Covid-19

Marina Macchiagodena

Maurice Karrenbrock

Marco Pagliai

Guido Guarnieri

Francesco Iannone

...

2021/5/19

SAMPL7 blind predictions using nonequilibrium alchemical approaches

Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design

Piero Procacci

Guido Guarnieri

2021/1

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