Optional Parameters

Input Options

-dbase <filename>

Input molecules to pose-predict. 3D molecules must be input as conformational expansion is not performed prior to fitting.

-dbase is the fastest way to run POSIT on large datasets. The expected input is a pre-generated database of OMEGA generated conformers.

> omega2 -in renin/all.smi -out all.oeb.gz -rangeIncrement 1 \
   -maxConfRange 200,200,300,400,500,600,700,800,900,1000,1100,1200,1300,1400,1500,1600

> posit -receptor receptor.oedu -dbase all.oeb.gz

Supported input file formats are:

File type	Extension
OEBinary	.oeb .oeb.gz
SDF	.sdf .mol .sdf.gz .mol.gz
MOL2	.mol2 .mol2.gz
PDB	.pdb .ent .pdb.gz .ent.gz

-molnames

This flag specifies a text file with the names of one or more molecules in supplied to the -dbase flag. If specified, only molecules with matching names will be read by the -dbase flag. If this flag is not specified all molecules will be read normally. Molecules names should be listed one per line.

The general purpose of this flag is to provide an easy mechanism for reading a few specific molecules that are contained in a large database, without having to extract those molecules by hand from the database.

Multiprocessing Options

Execute Options

-param

The argument for this flag is the name of a file containing control parameters. The control parameter file acts to either replace or augment the command line interface. All parameters necessary for program execution may be provided in the control parameter file, although any command given explicitly on the command line will supersede options found in the parameter file. The application generates a new parameter file containing the full set of execution parameters upon every execution. The name of the parameter file is created by combining the prefix base name with the ‘.param’ extension.

-mpi_np <n>

Specifies the number of processors n when the application is run in MPI mode.

-mpi_hostfile <filename>

Specifies the name of the file containing processors configuration. For every host this file should contain a line host_name slots=n where n is the number of processors on the host.

Dock Options

-ignore_nitrogen_stereo

When examining the ligands to pose predict for stereo, ignore any missing nitrogen chirality. (This is normally caused by time averaging of crystal structures).

When expanding stereo, nitrogen stereo centers will not be assigned.

Note

POSIT may complain about stereo centers being changed by the optimization, this is more likely when ignoring nitrogen stereo centers since the optimization may decide a different stereo configuration is optimal.

This command is aliased to -ignoreNitrogenStereo.

POSIT now always expands missing stereo.

-minimum_probability

Minimum probability for poses of interest. POSIT only outputs poses that has the minimum required probability. To output all poses, set -minimum_probability to 0.

[default = 0.33]

-allowed_clashes

Clashes allowed in the generated poses. There are three levels:

Allowed Clash	Description
noclashes	No clashes are allowed. Actually there is a little wiggle room here less than 0.2 Å penetration is not considered a clash.
mildclashes	Clashes involving hydrogen are allowed, but
hclashes	those between heavy atoms are disallowed.
allclashes	All clashes are allowed.

All poses that are accepted by the probability calculation yet clash with the protein are written to the fail file (if specified).

[default = mildclashes]

-relax

Flag indicating if post pose prediction relaxation should be performed. The relaxation is performed by allowing flexibility to the ligand and parts of the receptor. Turning on relaxation can significantly slow down the calculations. There are three options:

Relax Mode	Description
none	No relaxation is performed.
clashed	Relaxation is performed on poses that contains clashes.
all	Relaxation is performed on all poses.

[default = none]

-num_poses

Number of alternative poses to be generated for each docked molecule. The default is to only generate a single most probable pose.

[default = 1]

-best_Receptor_Pose_Only

If this flag set to false the pose prediction is performed using all of the receptors and the best set of poses from all of the receptors combined is provided as the results. With the default setting of true pose prediction is only performed on the best receptor for any given ligand. Note that, setting the flag to false could increse the runtime significantly depending on the number of receptors used for the calculation.

[default = true]

Output File Options

POSIT writes docked structure results to a single file, -docked_molecule_file – Ligand only output in one file.

By default, not all poses may be written to the output, to see where ligands were placed, consult the log file for more details. To control this behavior use the -outputall flag, which writes all output to the file specified by -docked_molecule_file in order of input molecule.

-docked_molecule_file <filename>

If specified, this flag overrides the default name of the docked molecule output file. Only .oedu, .oeb, and .oeb.gz formats are allowed. An .oedu file is generated by default, and is the preferred output format.

Note

The default file is posit_docked.oedu, or <-prefix>_docked.oedu if the -prefix flag is specified.

Ligands are written to the output file based on the desired sort order (see the flynn -sortBy flag).

Note

This command is aliased to -out.

-undocked_molecule_file

If specified this flag overrides the default name for the undocked molecule file.

Note

The default filename is posit_undocked.oeb.gz, or <-prefix>_undocked.oeb.gz if -prefix is specified.

-score_file

If specified overrides the default name of the output text file containing the scores of the docked molecules.

Note

The default filename is posit_score.txt or <-prefix>_score.txt if the -prefix flag is specified.

-report_file

If specified overrides the default output filename for the report file.

Note

The default filename for the report file is posit_report.txt or <-prefix>_report.txt if the -prefix flag is specified.

-status_file

If specified overrides the default filename for the status file.

Note

The default status file name is posit_status.txt or <-prefix>_status.txt if the -prefix flag is specified.

-rejected_file

If specified overrides the default filename for the reject file.

The reject file is a tab separated file containing the input ligand number, the ligand title and the reason for the ligand being undocked.

Example output:

Ligand #        Title#Status
0       lig1    No conformers above minimum probability
1       lig2    No conformers above minimum probability
2       lig3    No conformers above minimum probability
3       lig4    No conformers above minimum probability

Note

The default status file name is posit_rejected.txt or <-prefix>_rejected.txt if the -prefix flag is specified.

-settings_file

If specified overrides the default output filename for the setting file.

Note

The default settings filename is posit_settings.param or <-prefix>_settings.param if the -prefix flag is specified.

-clashed_molecule_file <filename>

Occasionally POSIT rejects ligands that probably have the correct binding mode but also display uncorrectable clashes. If this flag is set, clashed molecules will be written to this file in no specific output order.

It is important to be aware that because these are likely binding modes there is a chance that the clashed poses are still correct but the protein has reconfigured to accept the clashed pose.

Note

This command is aliased to -clash.

Output Options

-score_tag

Overrides the default tag used to attach the score to the output molecules

-no_extra_output_files

Suppress the default output of the score, status, settings, report and undocked files.

-no_dots

Suppress writing a dot (.) to standard error for each docking molecule (or x in the case of a failure).

-prefix

The text passed to this parameter will be preappended to all default output filenames (it does not affect output filenames explicitly set by the users).

-outputall

Shorthand to write all output including clashed or nonprobable molecules.