Force Field Application

This Cube parametrizes a flask with the selected force fields. The cube tries to split a flask into components: protein, ligand, water and excipients. The user can select the parametrization to be applied to each component. The protein forcefield is limited to standard amino acids and limited support to non-standard. Sugars are not currently supported but this will be improved in coming releases. The cube requires a record as input and produces a new record where the flask has been parametrized. The parametrization is carried out by using a Parmed object (https://github.com/ParmEd/ParmEd) which will be present on the emitted record. The supported protein force fields are amber99sb-ildn and the new amberfb-15. Small organic molecules like ligands and excipients can be parametrized by using GAFF, GAFF2 and SMIRNOFF forcefields. The flask splitting is based on the ligand residue name. The default one is “LIG” and can be changed by using the provided cube parameter. Water is currently parametrized by using TIP3P force field water model only.

Main Parameters

Parameter Name

Log Field

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Calculation Parameters

  • CPUs (cpu_count) type: integer: The number of CPUs to run this cube with
    Default: 1 , Min: 1, Max: 128
  • Cube Metrics (cube_metrics) type: string: Set of metrics to be collected

    Choices: cpu, disk, memory, network
  • Temporary Disk Space (MiB) (disk_space) type: decimal: The minimum amount of disk space in MiB (1048576 B) this cube requires. Due to overhead, request a couple hundred MiB more than required.
    Default: 5120.0 , Min: 128.0, Max: 8589934592
  • GPUs (gpu_count) type: integer: The number of GPUs to run this cube with
    Default: 0 , Max: 16
  • Instance Tags (instance_tags) type: string: Only run on machines with matching tags (comma separated)
    Default: “”
  • Instance Type (instance_type) type: string: The type of instance that this cube needs to be run on
  • Ligand force field (ligand_forcefield) type: string: Force field to be applied to the ligand
    Default: Gaff_1.81
    Choices: Gaff_1.81, Gaff_2.11, OpenFF_1.1.1, OpenFF_1.2.1, OpenFF_1.3.1, OpenFF_2.0.0, Smirnoff99Frosst
  • Memory (MiB) (memory_mb) type: decimal: The minimum amount of memory in MiBs (1048576 B) this cube requires. Due to overhead, request a couple hundred MiB more than required.
    Default: 1800 , Min: 256.0, Max: 8589934592
  • Metric Period (metric_period) type: decimal: How often to sample metrics, in seconds
    Default: 60
    Choices: 1, 5, 10, 30, 60, 120, 180, 240, 300, Min: 1, Max: 300
  • Thread limit per CPU (pids_per_cpu_limit) type: integer: The number of threads per CPU
    Default: 32
  • Protein force field (protein_forcefield) type: string: Force field to be applied to the protein
    Default: Amber14SB
    Choices: Amber14SB, Amber99SB, Amber99SBildn, AmberFB15
  • Shared Memory (MiB) (shared_memory_mb) type: decimal: The amount of shared memory to allow a container to address
    Default: 64
  • Spot policy (spot_policy) type: string: Control cube placement on spot market instances
    Default: Prohibited
    Choices: Allowed, Preferred, NotPreferred, Prohibited, Required
  • suffix (suffix) type: string: Filename suffix for output simulation files
    Default: prep

Field parameters

  • Log Field (log_field) type: Field Type: String: The field to store messages to floe report
    Default: Log Field

Hardware Parameters

Machine hardware requirements
  • Memory (MiB) (memory_mb) type: decimal: The minimum amount of memory in MiBs (1048576 B) this cube requires. Due to overhead, request a couple hundred MiB more than required.
    Default: 1800 , Min: 256.0, Max: 8589934592
  • Shared Memory (MiB) (shared_memory_mb) type: decimal: The amount of shared memory to allow a container to address
    Default: 64
  • Temporary Disk Space (MiB) (disk_space) type: decimal: The minimum amount of disk space in MiB (1048576 B) this cube requires. Due to overhead, request a couple hundred MiB more than required.
    Default: 5120.0 , Min: 128.0, Max: 8589934592
  • GPUs (gpu_count) type: integer: The number of GPUs to run this cube with
    Default: 0 , Max: 16
  • CPUs (cpu_count) type: integer: The number of CPUs to run this cube with
    Default: 1 , Min: 1, Max: 128
  • Instance Type (instance_type) type: string: The type of instance that this cube needs to be run on
  • Spot policy (spot_policy) type: string: Control cube placement on spot market instances
    Default: Prohibited
    Choices: Allowed, Preferred, NotPreferred, Prohibited, Required
  • Instance Tags (instance_tags) type: string: Only run on machines with matching tags (comma separated)
    Default: “”
  • Thread limit per CPU (pids_per_cpu_limit) type: integer: The number of threads per CPU
    Default: 32

Metrics Parameters

Cube Metric Parameters
  • Metric Period (None) type: decimal: How often to sample metrics, in seconds
    Default: 60
    Choices: 1, 5, 10, 30, 60, 120, 180, 240, 300, Min: 1, Max: 300
  • Cube Metrics (None) type: string: Set of metrics to be collected

    Choices: cpu, disk, memory, network

Parallel Force Field Application

The parallel version adds these extra parameters.

  • Number of messages to distribute at a time (item_count) type: integer: The maximum number of messages to bundle together for a parallel cube.
    Default: 1 , Min: 1, Max: 65535
  • Maximum Failures (max_failures) type: integer: The maximum number of times to attempt processing a work item
    Default: 10 , Min: 1, Max: 100
  • Autoscale this Cube (autoscale) type: boolean: If True, let Orion manage the parallelism of this Cube
    Default: True
  • Maximum number of Cubes (max_parallel) type: integer: The maximum number of concurrently running copies of this Cube
    Default: 1000 , Min: 1
  • Minimum number of Cubes (min_parallel) type: integer: The minimum number of concurrently running copies of this Cube
    Default: 0