Shape Small Molecules filter
This protocol uses RDKit to filter a SetOfSmallMolecules
by applying shape filters to each of the small molecules stored.
The user can choose whether to use RDKit or Shape-it to calculate the molecules shape and different shape
distance options like Tanimoto
, Protrude or RMSD distances.
Other parameters include the prealignment of the molecules or to trying atom reordering in order to improve the filter performance.
Note
Currently, Shape-it is not automatically installed with scipion-chem.
If the user wants to use it, they must install it manually and define its path in the scipion.conf file as SHAPEIT_HOME
.
Input
Note
All parameters include a help button that gives further information for each of them.

The result of this protocol is a SetOfSmallMolecules
containing only those small molecules that pass the filter.
Test
This protocol has an integrated test that can be run using the following command:
scipion3 tests pwchem.tests.tests_ligand_filtering.TestShapeFiltering