XP Visualizer Panel

Summary

This panel provides a way to visualize and analyze the results of a Glide XP docking run. The panel's main functions are:

Opening the XP Visualizer Panel

To open the XP Visualizer panel, you can:

Using the XP Visualizer Panel

To generate results that can be used with the Glide XP Visualizer, you must select Write XP descriptor information in the Settings tab of the Ligand Docking panel, and Write pose viewer file in the Output tab of the Ligand Docking panel when you run the XP docking job.

Note: To generate XP descriptor information, you must have a license for this feature.

Loading the files

Click Open to load a pose-viewer file that includes XP descriptors. When you load the file, you are prompted to choose an activity property to display in the table. If you don't want to display an activity property, click Cancel.

Once the files have been loaded, all of the ligands are loaded into the table, with the name of the ligand in the far left column (light blue background), along with the XP terms in the rest of the columns (light gray background). If the same ligand name is listed twice in the pose viewer file, then a -N is added to the ligand name, where N is an integer starting with 2 that is incremented for each successive instance of a ligand name.

To load descriptors generated by an older version of Glide, select .xpdes and click Open to load a descriptor file and its associated pose viewer file. A file selector opens, in which you can navigate to the desired .xpdes file.

Sorting the table

To sort the rows of the table by the values in a column, click on the column heading. There are three sort settings: ascending (+), descending(-), and the original pose viewer order. These settings can be changed by successively clicking on the column heading. One column can be sorted at a time.

Selecting cells

Clicking on cells produces two different functions depending on the cell type:

XP Term Cells

Cells that have a gray border around them indicate XP term values for which a visualization exists. By clicking on one of these cells, the border is enlarged (to indicate that the cell is selected) and the visualization is displayed in the Workspace. Clicking again removes the visualization. These visualizations are different depending on the XP term and are described below.

Ligand Name Cells

You can select multiple ligands by clicking in the Name column, using shift-click and control-click. If Selected ligands is selected, then Maestro shows the selected ligands and the view changes each time the selection is changed. If you select more than 100 ligands, a warning is posted, and Selected ligands is turned off.

Clicking Selected Only when there are multiple ligands selected displays only the selected ligands in the table. The sorting mechanisms now work exclusively on the ligands shown in the table. The All button is used to show all ligands in the table.

You can step through ligands with the Left Arrow and Right Arrow keys. If a cell is selected, the arrow keys move up or down the column for that cell, displaying the visualization if a cell has an associated visualization.

XP Visualizer Panel Features

The Glide XP Visualizer provides the following features for control of the visualization. Below these is the table of ligands and XP terms, which is described in the next section.

.xpdes option

When opening a file, open an .xpdes file rather than a pose viewer file.

Open button

Opens a file chooser, in which you can navigate to and select the file that contains the XP descriptors. By default this is the pose viewer file from the docking run. If the .xpdes option is selected, the file chooser allows you to select an .xpdes file. When the file is opened, the name is displayed in the File text box, and the title of the receptor entry is displayed in the Receptor text box.

File and Receptor text boxes

The File text box displays the name of the XP descriptor file used for the visualization. The Receptor text box displays the title of the receptor entry. The button to the left of the Receptor text box is for display of the receptor.

Fit to Ligand button

Change the view so that the ligands that are displayed occupy the entire Workspace.

Display options

These options control what is displayed in the Workspace

Narrow columns option

Set the column widths to a uniform, narrow width. This allows all the columns to be viewed without making the panel wider.

Set Column Order button

Opens a dialog box in which you can rearrange the order of the columns. You can select multiple columns and move them to the top or bottom of the list, or move them up or down in the list.

Conditional coloring option

Color the cells in the table by their numerical values.

Edit button

Open the Edit Conditional Coloring dialog box, in which you can set up the coloring scheme for each XP term.

Show buttons

These buttons control what is visible in the Ligands table. By default, only the first 100 ligands are displayed.

Export Data button

Export the information shown in the table to a CSV file. Opens a file chooser, in which you can navigate to a location and name and save the file. If you want to export data for a selection of ligands, select them in the table and click Selected Only before clicking Export.

Export Structures button

Export structures from the table to a Maestro file, along with the receptor structure. The receptor is the first structure, followed by the ligands, just as in a pose-viewer file. All selected ligands are exported, or if there is no selection, all ligands that are shown in the table are exported.

Reset button

Clear all information from the panel.

XP Terms and their Visualizations

The XP terms and a description of their visualizations is given below. In the visualizations, hydrogen atoms are not generally displayed, and the ligand carbon atoms are colored green.

XP Term Description Visualization
GScore Total GlideScore; sum of XP terms excluding Epik state penalties None
DockScore Total docking score; sum of XP terms. None
LipophilicEvdW Hydrophobic potential from the receptor at ligand atoms that are considered to be hydrophobic. None
PhobEn Hydrophobic enclosure reward Hydrophobic atoms on the protein that enclose hydrophobic groups on the ligand are displayed in gray in CPK representation. Hydrophobic atoms on the ligand are displayed in ball and stick representation.
PhobEnHB Reward for hydrophobically packed H-bond H-bonds are displayed as pink dotted lines. Hydrophobic atoms on the protein that enclose hydrophobic groups on the ligand are displayed in gray in CPK representation. Hydrophobic atoms on the ligand are displayed in ball and stick representation.
PhobEnPairHB Reward for hydrophobically packed correlated H-bonds H-bonds are displayed as pink dotted lines. Hydrophobic atoms on the protein that enclose hydrophobic groups on the ligand are displayed in gray in CPK representation. Hydrophobic atoms on the ligand are displayed in ball and stick representation.
HBond ChemScore H-bond pair term Hydrogen bonds are displayed as yellow dotted lines. Only those hydrogen bonds that contribute to the XP GlideScore are shown.
Electro Electrostatic rewards Relevant atoms in the ligand are displayed in ball-and-stick representation.
Sitemap Sitemap ligand/receptor non-H-bonding polar/hydrophobic and hydrophobic/hydrophilic complementarity terms Hydrophobic (orange) and hydrophilic (turquoise) surfaces are displayed, representing the field of the receptor. These are the same as the Maestro Hppmap surfaces.
π Cat Reward for pi-cation interactions The relevant aromatic groups in the protein are displayed in CPK representation and in the ligand in ball and stick representation.
ClBr Reward for Cl/Br in hydrophobic environment that pack against Asp/Glu None
LowMW Reward for ligands with low molecular weight None
Penalties Polar atom burial and desolvation penalties, and penalty for intra-ligand contacts Atoms are labeled with the penalties. The labels and their descriptions and the associated visualizations are as follows:
  • Charge+value—Charge penalty. Penalty for putting a ligand charge in a region without water and with the charge not in a salt bridge. Ball and stick representation for ligand atoms.
  • Water+value—Water-protein and water-ligand penalties. Penalties for desolvating (via presence of ligand) a polar group on the protein or ligand and not making an H bond to the polar group. Ball and stick representation for ligand and protein atoms
  • DDpen+value—Penalty for non-H-bonded donors on the ligand and protein too close together and with semi-collinear NH--HN.
  • Blk+value—Penalty for burial of charged group on the protein by the ligand with no H bonds made to the charged group by the ligand or protein. Ball and stick representation for protein atoms
  • Polar+value—Penalty for desolvation of a polar ligand atom in a hydrophobic protein environment. Similar to water-ligand penalty but specific to phobic environments. Ball and stick representation for protein atoms.
  • Contact+value—Penalty for intraligand contacts. Ball and stick representation for ligand atoms
  • PhoBl+value—Phobic ligand-protein blockage. Penalty for putting a phobic group of the ligand against polar (donor/acceptor) groups of the protein in a protein region which normally would give a favorable phobic packing score (PhobEn). Ball and stick representation for protein atoms

Twisted amide linkages in the ligand are also displayed in ball-and-stick, but not labeled.

HBPenal Penalty for ligands with large hydrophobic contacts and low H-bond scores None
ExposPenal Penalty for solvent-exposed ligand groups; cancels van der Waals terms The molecular surface of the protein around the ligand is displayed as a semi-transparent surface. Ligand groups that are exposed are rendered in ball-and-stick representation
RotPenal Rotatable bond penalty Rotatable bonds in the ligand are displayed in tube representation.
EpikStatePenalty Epik state penalties for ionization or tautomeric states that dock in preference to the most common state at physiological pH. If the ligand binds to a metal, the metal-binding penalties are also included. None

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