I have a couple of Protein-Protein complexes; an output of a docking procedure, I want to assess the Electrostatic potential and Van der wall energy of those complexes. So is there a way or a tool that can help me to do so?
Which protein-protein docking program? (Nonbonded interactions are usually included in the scoring function.)
If the proteins are treated as rigid bodies, the obtained complexes should be refined by molecular dynamics simulation, from which average electrostatic and van der Waals interactions between the two proteins can be obtained.
I used Cluspro for docking, and yes the obtained structures were treated as rigid bodies, and I am a bit new to Molecular Dynamics so I am planning to use GROMACS to refine the obtained complexes, electrostatic energy, and Vdw energy. so would be a right choice
From the docking results you get, usually you get a score or RMSD or ACE, these values are used as interaction predictions. Visualization of docking results with DSV can also reveal residual interactions, types of interactions and bond distances.