I did two different protein-protein dockings for my bioinformatics project. First, I used the ClusPro blind docking method and then I tried the HADDOCK server where I needed to input a set of active residues for my input protein.
So, to perform the protein-protein docking with HADDOCK, I used the information from the docking results output by ClusPro and identified the residues that interacted between the docked complex using the Prodigy server. Using the interacting residues between the docked complex from ClusPro, I obtained a negative HADDOCK score and Z-score. However, I feel that the docking results from HADDOCK can be considered as false positive as I used the interacting residues from the CluPro docking results.
So, to avoid this I decided to search the active residues related to my designed vaccine construct based on previous literature reviews, but only managed to identify a few active residues to be input for the docking (9 out of 558 residues). As for the results of the docking, I got a positive HADDOCK score with a negative Z-score. I also checked the binding affinity using Prodigy and got a negative score. I was wondering if the positive HADDOCK score was affected due to the limited information given for the active residues during the docking.
If so, are there any suggestions on how should I improve my docking to get negative HADDOCK scores? Thank you in advance.