AMBER Archive (2009)

Subject: Re: [AMBER] problem of mm_pbsa

From: Jordan Monnet (monnet.jordan_at_free.fr)
Date: Fri Aug 07 2009 - 18:13:57 CDT


Hello,

Can you send us one of your "something_com.all.out" from the run which gives
you these weird results?

--Jordan

* Qinghua Liao (fantasticqhl_at_yahoo.com) wrote:
> Hi sir,
> Many thanks for your reply! I have done that too, but there is no problem. I am wondering that maybe the two structural waters will make a difference, so I am just doing another simulation without the two structural waters. Thanks!
>
> Best wishes!
>
> Qinghua Liao
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Rubben Torella <rubben.torella_at_gmail.com>
> To: AMBER Mailing List <amber_at_ambermd.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 11:53:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [AMBER] problem of mm_pbsa
>
> Hi,
> try to check the structures of the ligand, repector and complex you created
> for the analysis...
> use the ambpdb command and check if every structure is correct...
> Hope this could help...
>
> 2009/8/5 case <case_at_biomaps.rutgers.edu>
>
> > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009, Qinghua Liao wrote:
> >
> > > I have a problem when I use mm_pbsa in amber 10Â to calculate the
> > > binding energy of the complex. After docking using autodock 4.0, I chose
> > > a conformation of the ligand, which matched well with the crystal ligand
> > > in the complex, to do MD with the receptor, two structural waters were
> > > preserved. I got a sample of 4ns, a equilibrated system according to the
> > > RMSD of the backbone.
> > >
> > > But the binding energy is abnormal:
> > >
> > > #                  COMPLEX                RECEPTOR
> > LIGAND
> > > #          ----------------------- -----------------------
> > -----------------------
> > > #                  MEAN        STD        MEAN        STD
> > MEAN        STD
> > > #          ======================= =======================
> > =======================
> > > ELE            -8427.58    249.82    -7913.17    248.20
> > -504.26      14.77
> > > VDW        21573827.80  32502.03  20373193.05  31945..80
> > 1200511.78    3894.24
> > > INT          7034641.54  60631.76  6982919.11  60080.98
> > 51722.43    5624.52
> > > GAS        28600041.76  67739.75  27348198.98  66677.44
> > 1251729.96    7136.00
> > > PBSUR            104.47      1.36      104.04      1.33
> > 4.94      0.08
> >
> > You will have to do the analysis (at least some of it) "by hand".  Look at
> > the
> > output files from your simulation: why do you have such high van der Waals
> > and
> > internal energies?
> >
> > The MM-PBSA perl scripts are nice when everything works, but are much less
> > helpful when problems show up.  In such circumstances, you should at least
> > a
> > part of the analysis yourself, so that you really understand what is being
> > computed.  Further, everyone's "first" analysis should also be done this
> > way.
> >
> > ...good luck...dac
> >
> >
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Jordan MONNET
Bachelor in Biology & Computer science
University of Paris Diderot (Paris VII)

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