Recognition specificity, or sequence tolerance, protocols predict the tolerated sequence space for a given protein-protein interface or protein domain. This sequence tolerance benchmark measures the recapitulation of a reference distribution over a sequence space given the conformation of a prototypical sequence.
This benchmark includes:
- phage display data that describe the peptide recognition preferences for: i) 169 naturally occurring and engineered PDZ domain-peptide complexes; ii) the human growth hormone-human growth hormone receptor (hGH-hGHR) interface; and iii) the 6 core and boundary residues in GB1.
- configuration details for the backrub ensemble protocol described in Smith & Kortemme (2010) and Smith & Kortemme (2011);
- analysis scripts that compare a predicted multiple sequence alignment to a reference multiple sequence alignment using four recapitulation metrics each based on the position weight matrix estimated for the ensemble.
This protocol capture is based off the original captures from the Smith & Kortemme papers listed above however most of the output directories have been excluded here to reduce the size of the repository. The full output of a successful run can be found in the RosettaCommons repositories and at http://kortemmelab.ucsf.edu/data/.
This repository contains third party libraries and materials which are distributed under their own terms (see LICENSE-3RD-PARTY). The novel content in this repository is licensed according to LICENSE.
The benchmark is hosted on GitHub. The most recent version can be checked out using the git command-line tool:
git clone https://github.com/Kortemme-Lab/sequence-tolerance.git
This archive contains the following directories:
- data : contains experimental phage display data compiled from the Smith and Kortemme 2010 publication. This is used to generate the benchmark analysis;
- input : contains the input files for the benchmark. Input files specific to a particular protocol are in a subdirectory named after the protocol. The input files are described in more detail in input/README.rst.
- output : these directories are empty by default. This is the default output location for protocols if they are run on the local machine.
- output/sample : contains sample output data that can be used to test the sequence_tolerance.R analysis script.
- output/1N7T : contains sample output data that can be used to partially (see below) test the figures.R script.
- analysis : contains the analysis scripts used to analyze the output of a prediction run. All protocols are expected to produce output that will work with the analysis scripts.
- protocols : contains the scripts needed to run a job. The scripts for a protocol are provided in a specific subdirectory.
- hpc : contains scripts that can be used to run the entire benchmark using specific cluster architectures. For practical reasons, a limited number of cluster systems are supported. Please feel free to provide scripts which run the benchmark for your particular cluster system.
This repository contains one protocol which can be used to run the benchmark. We welcome the inclusion of more protocols. Please contact support@kortemmelab.ucsf if you wish to contribute towards the repository.
Each protocol is accompanied by specific documentation in its protocol directory.
Created by: Colin A. Smith [1]
Software suite: Rosetta
Protocol directory: protocols/backrub_seqtol
The latest release of this repository: 
Smith, CA, Kortemme, T. Structure-Based Prediction of the Peptide Sequence Space Recognized by Natural and Synthetic PDZ Domains. 2010. J Mol Biol 402(2):460-74. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.07.032.
Smith, CA, Kortemme, T. Predicting the Tolerated Sequences for Proteins and Protein Interfaces Using RosettaBackrub Flexible Backbone Design. 2011. PLoS ONE 6(7):e20451. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020451.
| [1] | The original version of this protocol capture was developed and tested for Rosetta 3.2. Any errors in the current version above are likely to be our fault rather than that of the original author. Please contact support@kortemmelab.ucsf.edu with any issues which may arise. |
The same set of analysis scripts is used by all protocols. Conceptually, the analysis scripts should be a black box that is separated from the output of each protocol by an interface. Currently, the scripts are tied particularly to the Rosetta protocol included herein however we are happy to make the scripts more modular once another protocol is added to the benchmark capture.
The analysis scripts generates four metrics which can be used to evaluate the results of the sequence tolerance simulations as well as a series of plots. The scripts are described in more detail in analysis/README.rst.