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Systematic approach to parameterise covalently bound ligand
Just wondering, is there a best practice approach and/or a systematic way to go about running OpenMM simulations for covalently bound ligands to protein residues? I understand that the restriction of classical force-fields are unable to parameterise the covalently modified residue, hence I was wondering if there was a way to:
- Use espaloma to build a molecular graph of the covalently modified residue, and perhaps a neighbourhood of 2-3 other residues in the N and C-terminal direction to get better context of the chemical environment
- Assign parameters for the whole molecular graph.
- Extract the required parameters only for the modified residue and add that to the force field parameterisation by Amber14 for the system.