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.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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