  We use the classical BPS soliton solutions of the BPS Skyrme model together
with corrections from the collective coordinate quantization of spin and
isospin, the electrostatic Coulomb energies, and a small explicit breaking of
the isospin symmetry - accounting for the proton-neutron mass difference - to
calculate nuclear binding energies. We find that the resulting binding energies
are already in excellent agreement with their physical values for heavier
nuclei, demonstrating thereby that the BPS Skyrme model is a distinguished
starting point for a detailed quantitative investigation of nuclear and
low-energy strong interaction physics.
