Hi All,
I ran into repeated segmentation fault error when I tried to utilize the InterfaceAnalyzerMover to calcualte interaction energy between the two protein chains.
Here is my script:
import pyrosetta
from pyrosetta.rosetta.core.import_pose import pose_from_file
from pyrosetta.rosetta.protocols.analysis import InterfaceAnalyzerMover
import sys
def calculate_interface_energy(pdb_file, chain_target, chain_partners):
"""
Calculates the interaction energy between one chain and a complex formed by other chains in a protein structure.
Args:
pdb_file (str): Path to the PDB file.
chain_target (str): Identifier for the target chain.
chain_partners (str): Identifiers for the partner chains concatenated.
Returns:
float: The interaction energy between the target chain and the partner chains.
"""
# Load the PDB file into a Pose object
pose = pose_from_file(pdb_file)
# Define the complex as a combination of the target chain and partner chains
complex_identifier = chain_target + "_" + chain_partners
# Setup the InterfaceAnalyzerMover for the defined complex
interface_analyzer = InterfaceAnalyzerMover()
interface_analyzer.set_interface(complex_identifier)
interface_analyzer.test_move(pose) # Test the move to ensure the interface is correctly defined
interface_analyzer.apply(pose) # Apply the mover to the pose
# Retrieve the computed interface energy
interface_energy = interface_analyzer.get_interface_dG()
return interface_energy
def main():
# Specify your parameters
pdb_file = sys.argv[1]
chain_target = "A" # The single chain you are focusing on
chain_partners = "B" # The other chains, treated as a combined entity
# Initialize PyRosetta
pyrosetta.init(extra_options="-mute all -load_PDB_components false -extra_res_fa GDP.params")
# Calculate and print the interface energy
interface_energy = calculate_interface_energy(pdb_file, chain_target, chain_partners)
print(f"Interface energy between chain {chain_target} and chains {chain_partners}: {interface_energy} REU")
if __name__=="__main__":
main()
The seg-fault error happens with either test_move, or apply (when I comment out test_move)
I can't figure out the problem because it seems to me that the error stems from the underlying C++ script.
Any suggestion is appreciated.
P.S. I cannot attach the test input I used because it is too big and this forum doesn't take the zipped version. If the error cannot be replicated with a different input, I will try to paste the PDB content as plain text in replies.
Category:
Post Situation:
It's hard to debug segfaults without some sort of traceback to the relevant point in the code. It really helps to run a "debug" version of things. You may or may not be able to install the debug version of PyRosetta (e.g. in a different Conda environment) and get reasonable feedback from it.
The alternative is to look into using the command line version of Rosetta, and seeing if the InterfaceAnalyzer there gives the same issues. At the very least, the debug version there should give more useful information.
The other thing which might be going on is that the InterfaceAnalyzer is built for protein-protein interfaces, and having a ligand (particularly if the ligand is the only residue on the chain, or if it's on a chain which isn't listed in the partners specification) might be causing an issue.
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