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Molecular Modeling
Molecular Modeling How to Set Protonation States and Add Hydrogens to a Protein Before Docking or MD (PDB2PQR, PROPKA and H++) Crystal structures ship without hydrogens. Learn to predict pKa values with PROPKA, protonate with PDB2PQR or H++, and check the result before… Dr. Abdul Rajjak Shaikh 14 min read Molecular Modeling How to Run GROMACS on an HPC Cluster with SLURM: Job Scripts, Modules and Restarts Move your GROMACS run from a laptop to a shared cluster. Load the right module, write a correct sbatch script, and restart… Dr. Abdul Rajjak Shaikh 12 min read Molecular Modeling How to Run an MD Simulation of a Vaccine Construct-TLR Complex in GROMACS: Setup, Length and What to Report Take a docked vaccine construct into GROMACS: which pose to carry forward, force field and box setup, how many replicas to run,… Ragini Mishra 17 min read Molecular Modeling How to Install PyMOL for Free (Open-Source PyMOL on Windows, Linux and Mac): A Step-by-Step Guide for Students Open-source PyMOL is free under a BSD-like licence. Install it with one conda command on Windows, Linux or Mac, then verify it… Dr. Abdul Rajjak Shaikh 13 min read Molecular Modeling How to Install AutoDock Vina on Windows 10 and 11: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners (Vina 1.2.7 + AutoDockTools) Install AutoDock Vina 1.2.7 on Windows the way it ships today: one bare .exe, no MSI, plus MGLTools for AutoDockTools. Follow the… Dr. Abdul Rajjak Shaikh 13 min read Updated Molecular Modeling How to Fix Missing Residues and Loops in a PDB Structure Before Docking or MD (ChimeraX, SWISS-MODEL and MODELLER) Find the gaps your crystal structure never resolved, decide which ones matter, and rebuild them in ChimeraX, SWISS-MODEL or MODELLER before docking… Dr. Abdul Rajjak Shaikh 15 min read Molecular Modeling How to Analyze Protein-Ligand Interactions Over an MD Trajectory (ProLIF and MDAnalysis, Step by Step) Compute which binding-site residues held your ligand and for what percentage of the run, using ProLIF and MDAnalysis on a PBC-corrected GROMACS… Dr. Abdul Rajjak Shaikh 11 min read Updated Molecular Modeling How to Do Flexible Docking in AutoDock Vina (Flexible Side Chains, Step by Step) Learn how to let binding-site side chains move in AutoDock Vina: split the receptor with Meeko, run vina --flex, and judge whether… Dr. Abdul Rajjak Shaikh 14 min read Updated Molecular Modeling UCSF ChimeraX Tutorial for Beginners: Load, Inspect and Clean a Protein Structure Learn UCSF ChimeraX in one sitting: fetch a PDB entry, master the 12 core commands, then clean the structure for docking or… Dr. Abdul Rajjak Shaikh 13 min read Updated Molecular Modeling How to Calculate a Binding Free Energy with Umbrella Sampling in GROMACS (Pulling, Windows and gmx wham) Learn how to run umbrella sampling in GROMACS: set up the pull code, pick windows that overlap, run gmx wham and read… Dr. Abdul Rajjak Shaikh 18 min read Updated