MM/GBSA and LIE estimates of host-guest affinities: dependence on charges and solvation model.
The affinities of two sets of guest-host systems were estimated using the popular end-point methods MM/GBSA (molecular-mechanics with generalised Born and surface-area solvation) and LIE (linear interaction energy). A set of six primary alcohols that bind to α-cyclodextrin (α-CD) and a set of eight guest molecules to cucurbit[8]uril (CB8) were considered. Three different charge schemes were used t