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2022-03-29 Meeting notes

2022-03-29 Meeting notes

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Mar 29, 2022

ย Participants

  • @Joshua Horton

  • @Chapin Cavender

  • Venkat

  • @Jeffrey Wagner

  • @Simon Boothroyd

  • @Pavan Behara

  • @Daniel Cole

  • @David Mobley

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Paper progress

@Joshua Horton

  • JH โ€“ Narrative is โ€œthere are lots of FFs and tools to do torsion parameter assignment, but none of them are compatible with SMIRNOFF. So weโ€™re making Bespokefitโ€

    • DC โ€“ Also, in order to cover chemical space, most FFs end up having a parameter explosion. Sage has very few parameters, however this can lead to some inaccurate torsions.

    • DC โ€“ Then reviews tools that are available for bespoke torsion scanning, and explaining that none are compatible with SMIRNOFF format. So first advantage is that this is compatible with SMIRNOFF.

    • DC โ€“ Second advantage in the paper will talk about how things like ANI can be used to speed up bespoke torsion fitting.

    • DC โ€“ Third advantage is that this can be done at a large scale, and the QM data can be published and reused.

  • JH โ€“ Results will have

    • dG plots for JACS ligands.

    • Evaluation of QM vs MM torsion profiles. (bar chart with plots for error between QM and MM energy surfaces for Sage, Sage+bespoke, and maybe GAFF)

  • DC โ€“ Venkat, anything we should include with ANI?

    • V โ€“ I shared results a while ago with Josh, some ANI RMSE data from forcebalance.

    • JH โ€“ That would be similar to the JACS stuff. We could include that.

    • DC โ€“ Full JACS data would be great.

    • V โ€“ I will discuss this offline with you.

Bespokefit
release

@Joshua Horton

  • JH โ€“ 0.1.1 release is out! Good news is that weโ€™ve got other people at the Cole lab using it, itโ€™s installed ona few PCs. Had to add a few pins to the recipe for the ForceBalance break and Toolkit releases. But the environment seems solvable. Docs are up and look good, theory docs are almost ready to go.

  • JH โ€“ Iโ€™ve reached out to BSwope but he was busy at ACS. Iโ€™ll reach out again.

    • DC โ€“ Sounds good.

    • DM โ€“ I wouldnโ€™t consider BSwope to be blocking, in case we can get a hold of him.

  • JW โ€“ Tried to do the quick start instructions on mac and had an issue, Iโ€™ll bring this up on the repo issue tracker.

  • DC โ€“ Other potential testers?

    • DM โ€“ Could recruit a small number of volunteers on the ad board channel

    • SB โ€“ It may be good to give BSwope a few more days - Heโ€™s got the right level of expertise and patience to be our idea tester.

    • DM โ€“ Xavier Lucas could be good as well.



A slightly tangential science remark about low hanging fruit

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  • DM โ€“ AS you get more data about BespokeFit, it would be great to collect data about how the bespoke parameters differ from parent parameters, and we could keep a running tally of how much the parent parameters get changed by bespoke fitting, and then we could aggregate this to identify parameters that need modification.

B/Si update

@Daniel Cole

  • DC โ€“ We donโ€™t really have transferrable ff parameters for compounds that contain B or Si. But the Reaxys database has allowed us to make public ~100 measurements of compounds involving B and Si. So they sent me their database of compounds with HVap data, and Iโ€™m reviewing which ones we want. My thinking is that we could use QM to come up with initial guesses for parameters, and then use their phys prop data for fitting.

  • DC โ€“ So, Iโ€™ve looked at this dataset, and unfortunately Iโ€™m not great at chemistry. But I asked an ochemist who helped me look through the compounds. He said that SILICON is pretty straightforward, and selected a few compounds.

    • JW โ€“ It may be good to get more representatives of Si-H bonds?

    • SB + DM โ€“ This is a good looking set compared to what we had to use before

  • DC โ€“ Many of the BORON molecules on the other hand, have some really reactive molecules.

    • B-with-all-bonds-to-carbon are quite reactive. But B-with-at-least-one-bond-to-a-heteroatom are way better behaved.

    • Many appearances of stable Boron are stabilized by an intermolecular interaction.

    • So we may need to carefully communicate the domain of applicability for Boron parameters, since many molecules are unstable.

    • DM โ€“ Many of the rings are weird (like, all B+O or B+N). Is that a stability issue or could we find โ€œless weirdโ€ rings?

DM : โ€œSome molecules I found on pubchem that are presumably stableโ€

B1=C2C(=CC3=CC=CC=C31)C=CC=C2CC4=CC=CC=[C-]4

B1=C(C(=C(C2=CC=CC=C21)C)C(=O)O)Cl

I queried pubchem for [#5X3]:[*]

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