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We should make it clear here what Protocols this applies to, i.e. this is for HybridTop mostly (i.e. the tempfactor stuff is hybridtop only) but also applies for the most part to ABFEs, AHFEs, and SepTop.


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Good point, also is it worth adding sections specific to the other protocols to show how to extract the relevant end-state structures?

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Yeah that would be a good way to do this cleanly if it's not too much work!

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Added something for SepTop as well.

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Try adding the -nc or --no-clobber argument to wget? That way you won't double download the file.

Also this is a big nc file but the hybrid system doesn't include water. Would it be worth pulling down one of the smaller NC files? (I think we have newer generated ones?)


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Yes good idea can you point me to some?

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I'm thinking, in MDAnalysis, it might be easy enough to align the trajectory to the coordinates of the PDB file and write that out. That's technically "centering" for free.

Also I'd be happy with merging this as-is, but opening a separate issue to try to make an MDAnalysis-only solution work. I'm sure it's doable, just needs the right set of transformations.


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"# Extracting and visualising a free energy simulation\n",
"\n",
"This notebook provides a step-by-step guide to extract and visualise a free energy simulation trajectory from a ``simulation.nc`` file using [openfe-analysis](https://github.com/OpenFreeEnergy/openfe_analysis), [MDAnalysis](https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis) and [mdtraj](https://github.com/mdtraj/mdtraj). By the end, you should understand how to:\n",
"\n",
"1. Extract the trajectory of a ``replica`` or ``single lambda state`` from a ``simulation.nc`` file\n",
"2. For a given hybrid topology trajectory, extract the relevant atom positions for the end states using `MDAnalysis`\n",
"3. Write out the trajectorie(s) using `MDAnalysis`\n",
"4. Centre the ligand in the simulation box using `mdtraj`\n",
"\n",
"This visualisation workflow can be used with any OpenFE protocols, though the end-state extraction method can be different, as only the relative hybrid topology protocol uses the temperature factor method described here.\n",
"\n",
"## Downloading the example data\n",
"\n",
"First, download some example trajectory data. This may take a few minutes due to the size of the simulation file. Please skip this section if you have already done this!"
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"File ‘simulation.nc’ already there; not retrieving.\n",
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"! wget https://zenodo.org/records/15375081/files/simulation.nc -nc\n",
"! wget https://zenodo.org/records/15375081/files/hybrid_system.pdb -nc"
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"## Extracting the trajectory with `MDAnalysis`\n",
"\n",
"The `openfe-analysis` package provides an `MDAnalysis` reader to help extract the trajectory data from the `simulation.nc` file. As the file contains multipule replicas simulated at different lambda states, we must choose which of these to load as a single trajectory. We have two options available to construct the trajectory:\n",
"- `state_id`: will construct a trajectory which follows a single Hamiltonian lambda state at the specified value.\n",
"- `recplica_id`: will construct a trajectory which follows a single replica at the specified value.\n",
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"In this example which uses a trajectory from a relative binding free energy calculation we will load the trajectory at `lambda=0` or the end state corresponding to Ligand A and visulaise the trajectory with `nglview`."
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"import MDAnalysis as mda\n",
"import mdtraj as md\n",
"from openfe_analysis import FEReader\n",
"import nglview as nv\n",
"import numpy as np\n",
"\n",
"u_0 = mda.Universe(\"hybrid_system.pdb\", \"simulation.nc\", format=FEReader, state_id=0)\n",
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"v = nv.show_mdanalysis(u_0)\n",
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"<center>\n",
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" \n",
"![system](images/hybrid_system.png)\n",
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"<div class=\\\"alert alert-block alert-info\\\"> <b>Note:</b> The OpenFE relative binding free energy protocol does not save water positions by default, this can be changed via the <a href=\"https://docs.openfree.energy/en/latest/reference/api/openmm_protocol_settings.html#openfe.protocols.openmm_utils.omm_settings.MultiStateOutputSettings.output_indices\">output_indices</a> protocol setting. </div>\n",
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"\n",
"To view the final state at `lambda=1` we can use negative indexing if we don't know the total number of lambda states."
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"u_1 = mda.Universe(\"hybrid_system.pdb\", \"simulation.nc\", format=FEReader, state_id=-1)\n",
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"![system_state_1](images/hybrid_system_state_1.png)\n",
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"# Extracting the end state positions with `MDAnalysis` \n",
"\n",
"## Relative hybrid topology protocol\n",
"\n",
"The trajectory data stored in the `simulation.nc` file contains the positions of the end-state ligands in their hybrid topology format. This means only atoms that are unique to the end-states have individual positions, with conserved core atoms sharing a single set of positions. As you might have noticed in the visualisation above, this can complicate the analysis and visualisation of the protein-ligand interactions. However, we can identify the atoms relevant to the end states or core atoms using the tempature factors in the topology file:\n",
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"- `0.0`: The non-alchemical atoms (protein, solvent, etc)\n",
"- `0.25`: The unique atoms of state A\n",
"- `0.5`: The conserved core atoms present in both end states\n",
"- `0.75`: The unique atoms of state B\n",
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"With this information, we can easily extract the atom positions relevant to `state A` for `lambda=0`:"
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"# get atoms for state A\n",
"tempfactor = 0.25\n",
"\n",
"state = sum([u_0.atoms[u_0.atoms.tempfactors == i] for i in (0, 0.5, tempfactor)])\n",
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" \n",
"![statea_lig](images/statea_ligand.png)\n",
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"## Separated Topologies\n",
"\n",
"This protocol represents both end-state ligands explicitly with unique atom positions. To extract the relevant end-state ligand coordinates, you can use `chainid` to select the state where `chainid` `A` and `B` correspond to the `A` and `B` ligands, respectively, in the `solvent` leg. In the `complex` leg, due to the way the systems are constructed, the `chainid`s are `B` and `E`, which again correspond to the `A` and `B` end-states respectively. "
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"# load the example septop solvent leg topology file\n",
"septop = mda.Universe(\"topologies/alchemical_system_septop.pdb\")\n",
"v = nv.show_mdanalysis(septop)\n",
"v.center()\n",
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" \n",
"![septop_full](images/septop_full.png)\n",
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"# select end-state A benzene only\n",
"state_a = septop.select_atoms(\"resname UNK and chainid A\")\n",
"v = nv.show_mdanalysis(state_a)\n",
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"![septop_a](images/septop_state_a.png)\n",
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"## Saving the trajectory to file with `MDAnalysis`\n",
"\n",
"We can now use `MDAnalysis` to save the trajectory of the `state A` atoms to a common file format, note that we will also need to write out a new topology file that can be used to load this trajectory:"
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"## Centering the Ligand with `mdtraj`\n",
"\n",
"You may have noticed in the view above that the ligand seems to have drifted away from the protein, this is a visualisation artifact caused by the use of periodic boundary conditions and the way in which `OpenMM` tries to ensure that all particle positions are written into a single periodic box. We can fix this, however, using `mdtraj` and the [image_molecules](https://mdtraj.org/1.9.3/api/generated/mdtraj.Trajectory.html?highlight=image_molecules#mdtraj.Trajectory.image_molecules) function:"
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"![center_system](images/centered_system.png)\n",
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