BioExcel Summer School on Biomolecular Simulations 2022

On this page, you can find the links to the HADDOCK and metadynamics (using Gromacs) tutorials given during the 2022 BioExcel Online Summerschool on Biomolecular Simulations.

The first tutorial illustrates how metadynamics can be used to sample conformations of a binding pocket. These can subsequently be used for docking a ligand using e.g. HADDOCK. The conformational sampling approach is following the EDES approach described in the following publication:

• A. Basciu, G. Malloci, F. Pietrucci, A.M.J.J. Bonvin and A.V. Vargiu. Holo-like and druggable protein conformations from enhanced-sampling of binding pocket shape. J. Chem. Inf. and Mod. 59, 1515-1528 (2019).

The second tutorial demonstrates the use of the HADDOCK web server to model a protein-protein complex using interface information derived from NMR chemical shift perturbation data. This tutorial does not require any Linux expertise and only makes use of our web server and PyMol for visualisation/analysis.

Tutorials

• Metadynamics: This tutorial highlights the benefits of enhanced sampling using metadynamics to improve the predictive power of molecular docking for protein-small molecule targets, in the case of binding sites undergoing conformational changes. For this, we will first generate an ensemble of conformers for the target protein using GROMACS and PLUMED.

• HADDOCK2.4 basic protein-protein docking tutorial: A tutorial demonstrating the use of the HADDOCK web server to model a protein-protein complex using interface information derived from NMR chemical shift perturbation data. This tutorial does not require any Linux expertise and only makes use of our web server and PyMol for visualisation/analysis.