2020-08-11 QCFractal User Meeting notes

Updates from MolSSI

• BP is teaching at MolSSI this week and is unable to join

Queue/Manager status

• JH just submitted fragmented ligands from benchmarking set (JACS dataset, fragmented). Mix of torsiondrives and MM scans. Exciting new errors (some involving psi4 version queries). Also seems to be something up with automation.

• DD – Still working on incorrectly-registered incompletes.

User questions

• Fragmenter status and plans

CMILES for disaccharide set

• JW – Need CMILES to make sure we’re not misinterpreting the molecules we submit to QCA.

• JH – I was able to make CMILES from PDB. All bond orders were 1.

• DC – Original structures from GMML. They don’t recommend writing topologies. Writes PDB and OFF formats. Takes string of saccharide identifiers as input. Generally catches errors/bad inputs.

• DC – Can output PDB, OFF, and topology (.top or .prmtop)

• Options:

  • Assume all bond orders are 1, use PDB + OE to interpret

    • Downside is that this would only work for current set, we’d be back to this discussion again if we tried to do bond order >1, charged atoms, or mols with S or P

    • During this meeting: OE can infer bond orders

    • Downside – Hard requirement on OE.

  • Make antechamber+tleap write mol2 and use format converters to reach sdf

    • Upside is that they must be doing bond order perception during small molecule parameterization

    • Upside – Fully open source pathway (ambertools, openbabel, rdkit)

    • During this meeting: This pathway successfully generates bond orders

  • Get unordered SMILES for mols and match up with PDB to get SDF/CMILES

Path 1 (OE reading PDBs):

python -c "from openforcefield.topology import Molecule; import sys; molecule = Molecule.from_file(sys.argv[1]); print(molecule.to_string()) "

Path 2:

antechamber -fi pdb -i glu.pdb -fo mol2 -o test.mol2  
antechamber -i 1_ac.mol2 -fi mol2 -o 1_ac_sy.mol2 -fo mol2 -at sybyl -dr no
obabel -imol2 1_ac_sy.mol2 -osdf -O new.sdf
python -c "from openforcefield.topology import Molecule; import sys; molecule = Molecule.from_file(sys.argv[1]); print(molecule.to_smiles()) " new.sdf

On structure with carbonyl and sulfate, OE interprets PDB correctly, antechamber loses track of bond orders + charge on sulfate

(off-dev) jeffreywagner@JW-MBP$ diff out_ac out_pdb 
1c1
< [H][C@]1([C@@]([C@](O[C@@]([C@]1([H])OS([O])([O])[O])([H])O[C@@]2([C@]([C@@]([C@](O[C@]2([H])C([H])([H])O[H])([H])OC([H])([H])[H])([H])OC(=O)C([H])([H])[H])([H])O[H])[H])([H])C([H])([H])O[H])([H])O[H])O[H]
---
> [H][C@]1([C@@]([C@](O[C@@]([C@]1([H])OS(=O)(=O)[O-])([H])O[C@@]2([C@]([C@@]([C@](O[C@]2([H])C([H])([H])O[H])([H])OC([H])([H])[H])([H])OC(=O)C([H])([H])[H])([H])O[H])[H])([H])C([H])([H])O[H])([H])O[H])O[H]