{"id":10262,"date":"2023-08-23T16:29:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/?p=10262"},"modified":"2023-08-23T16:29:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:29:29","slug":"a-simple-criterion-can-conceal-a-multitude-of-chemical-and-structural-sins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/a-simple-criterion-can-conceal-a-multitude-of-chemical-and-structural-sins\/","title":{"rendered":"A simple criterion can conceal a multitude of chemical and structural sins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;ve been investigating deep learning-based protein-ligand docking methods which often claim to be able to generate ligand binding modes within 2\u00c5 RMSD of the experimental one. We found, however, this simple criterion can conceal a multitude of chemical and structural sins&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/steric-good-crystal_astex_1t9b-1.png?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/steric-good-crystal_astex_1t9b-1.png?strip=info&#038;w=650&#038;ssl=1 650w\" alt=\"X-ray crystal structure of ligand in PDB ID 1t9b.\" data-height=\"500\" data-id=\"10267\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=10267\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/steric-good-crystal_astex_1t9b-1.png\" data-width=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/steric-good-crystal_astex_1t9b-1.png?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/steric-bad-deepdock_astex_1t9b-1.png?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/steric-bad-deepdock_astex_1t9b-1.png?strip=info&#038;w=650&#038;ssl=1 650w\" alt=\"Intertwined rings of the ligand from 1t9b.\" data-height=\"500\" data-id=\"10266\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=10266\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/steric-bad-deepdock_astex_1t9b-1.png\" data-width=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/steric-bad-deepdock_astex_1t9b-1.png?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>DeepDock attempted to generate the ligand binding mode from PDB ID 1t9b <\/em><br><em>(light blue carbons, <em>left<\/em>), but gave pretzeled rings instead (white carbons, right).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in assessing the structural quality and chemical validity of predicted binding modes (and conformations) of small molecules, you might like to read about one of our DPhil students <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/martin-buttenschoen\/\">\ud83e\udd13 Martin Buttenschoen<\/a>&#8216;s work on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2308.05777\">PoseBusters on arXiv<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-10.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-10.png?resize=625%2C463&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10269\" style=\"width:655px;height:485px\" width=\"625\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-10.png?resize=1024%2C759&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-10.png?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-10.png?resize=768%2C569&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-10.png?resize=1536%2C1138&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-10.png?resize=624%2C462&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-10.png?w=1606&amp;ssl=1 1606w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-10.png?w=1250&amp;ssl=1 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Example PoseBusters waterfall plot showing the PoseBusters tests as filters for the TankBind predictions on the Astex Diverse data set. The leftmost (dotted) bar shows the number of complexes in the test set. The red bars show the number of predictions that fail with each additional test going from left to right. The rightmost (solid) bar indicates the number of predictions that pass all tests, i.e. those that are \u2018PB-Valid\u2019. For the 85 test cases in the Astex Diverse set 50 (59%) predictions have RMSD within 2\u00c5 RMSD and 5 (5.9%) pass all tests.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin has developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/maabuu\/posebusters\">pip-installable Python package<\/a> that&#8217;s easy to use, with <a href=\"https:\/\/posebusters.readthedocs.io\/en\/latest\/\">friendly documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also hear Martin speak at the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rscbmcs.org\/events\/aichem23\/\">RSC CICAG and RSC BMRC&#8217;s 6th &#8220;AI in Chemistry&#8221; Symposium<\/a> at Churchill College, Cambridge\u2014and there&#8217;s still time to register\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As one of the Co-Chairs of the organizing committee, I&#8217;d like to thank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/astrazeneca\/\">AstraZeneca<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbiosim.org\">OpenBioSim<\/a> for sponsoring this year&#8217;s #AIChem23. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers and poster presenters for what promises to be another exciting meeting at the intersection of AI and Chemistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s worth mentioning four days after we posted our preprint on arXiv, another arXiv preprint describing very similar tool called <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2308.07413\">PoseCheck<\/a>\u2014designed to check small molecules produced by structure-based deep generative AI models\u2014was posted from Prof. Tom Blundell&#8217;s group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been investigating deep learning-based protein-ligand docking methods which often claim to be able to generate ligand binding modes within 2\u00c5 RMSD of the experimental one. We found, however, this simple criterion can conceal a multitude of chemical and structural sins&#8230; DeepDock attempted to generate the ligand binding mode from PDB ID 1t9b (light blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,187,621,632,447,291,48],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[488],"class_list":["post-10262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cheminformatics","category-data-visualization","category-deep-learning","category-molecular-design","category-protein-ligand-docking","category-publication"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":488,"user_id":35,"is_guest":0,"slug":"garrett","display_name":"Garrett","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/df625261419c37dd5c5937e37f17a732626acd6eea1e6fabd03d935c25b453bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10271,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions\/10271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10262"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=10262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}