Questions tagged [proteins]
For questions about modeling proteins
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Performing two (restrained and unrestrained) NVT and two (restrained and unrestrained) NPT ensemble for 200ps in a protein-ligand complex
Do I need to edit position restrain file for both protein and ligand manually, or may I perform changing parameter "define" from NVT.mdp and NPT.mdp files? Total number of atoms before ...
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Comparison of GIST-based water scoring tools - WatSite, WaterKit, AutoDock-GIST
I want to compute the binding free energies of water molecules around proteins, and I want to know if there is information comparing the accuracy of MD/GIST based methods such as WatSite, WaterKit, ...
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Protein structure prediction: levels of coarse-graining in deep learning approaches
I am researching the areas of protein structure prediction, protein + ligand pose prediction, and co-folding algos with deep learning. I am trying to map the current state of the art architectures ...
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Restrain a protein to be helical in an MD simulation
I have a very small part of a protein that is supposed to be helical. However, in molecular dynamics simulation, it unfolds and gets into extended conformation. Is there any way I can force it to stay ...
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Blind docking and targeted docking
I used Autodock Vina and UCSF Chimera to perform blind and targeted docking on a protein from the RCSB database and a molecule I had optimized with Gaussian software.The results are as follows: The ...
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Why is this geometry optimization in Gaussian not working for a system containing an amino acid, a water molecule and a metal (Pb) ion?
I started optimising a system containing amino acid residue, water molecule and a toxic metal ion, in proving a supposed reaction steps that might take place in inhibiting enzyme activity. The ...
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How do I validate and benchmark a new protein or polymer model?
Suppose I designed a novel coarse-grained model of polymer chains. How can I test the validity of my novel model? Is there any applied framework available?
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When optimizing AMBER molecular dynamics parameters for protein-ligand interactions, how do I balance accuracy and efficiency?
Are there established practices for fine-tuning AMBER MD parameters in scenarios like mine, involving specific factors like mutant proteins or non-standard ligands? Has anyone successfully tackled ...
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Method for Energy Computation of Protein Structures
So far i have found only one paper that describes how we can compute protein energy while doing MD simulation: Nishikawa, Ken, Motohisa Oobatake, and Tatsuo Ooi. "Method for Energy Computation ...
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Which MD software is preferable for protein simulation?
I see that some free MD simulation software are available online. VMD NAMD LAMMPS OpenMM GROMACS Amber CHARMM Which one above is the most appropriate for protein simulation?
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From a PDB file, how may I know which atoms have bonds between them?
Suppose I have a protein PDB file, and I want to know which atoms have bonds between them. How can this be done? Sometimes people suggest using the CONECT field for ...
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How easy is it to distinguish water from ions in xray crystallography?
I'm interested in bound ions in protein xray crystal structures. Of course a lot of structures include biologically significant ions, such as Mg2+ in the active site of an enzyme. But a lot of ...
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How to select charge and multiplicity for macro-molecules?
In optimising proteins with DFT/B3LYP, how can we detect the charge and multiplicity of the protein?
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How to find the smallest distance between 2 residues in Pymol?
I am very new to Pymol and was trying to figure out how I can find the largest distance between 2 residues. Using just the basic distance function I get multiple distances which is not very useful in ...
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What is the procedure to develop a new force field for molecular simulation?
Suppose, I want to develop a novel force field for proteins. What is the empirical procedure I should follow to do that?