Pathway Gap Filling Post-CHECKSPMUTATE

Introduction

This is a recommended procedure to be used following the use of CHECKSPMUTATE, if it was a pathway which was being reoptimised.

CHECKSPMUTATE mutates a selected set of residues in a protein or protein+ligand system, and reoptimises all of the stationary points from the original system. Thus mutated forms or a close homologue can be directly compared against a wild type protein. This is particularly useful when comparing a particular protein fold or protein+cofactor interaction. In these instances, we are interested in reoptimising only the stationary points comprising a particular pathway, and the database before mutation is set up accordingly.

It is almost inevitable (particularly is we are introducing bulky mutations) that not all of the stationary points post-mutation will reoptimise (there could be steric clashes etc). Thus, there will be gaps in our new, mutated pathway. Hence the need for post-processing to fill these gaps.

Please note this method described below is highly idiosyncratic, and as such is only meant as a loose guide. It uses very simple bash scripts, which can be easily edited. Please feel free to adapt the procedure to your own needs/preferences.

Method

The directories used for CHECKSPMUTATE and its post-processing. The bash scripts are set up to move between these, so will need to be adapted if the directories are named/organised differently.

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checkmin/checkts

Rationale

Ordinarily, I will have run CHECKSPMUTATE calculations in checkmin and checkts directories respectively. Because of the way OPTIM jobs are assigned by PATHSAMPLE - with each job being assigned a random number - it is possible that two or more OPTIM jobs get assigned the same random number within the same PATHSAMPLE batch. Therefore, the former job gets overwritten by the latter. This seems to be a fairly significant bug within PATHSAMPLE but nobody else seems to have had a problem with it before (I can only assume nobody else has run into this problem, or have come up with their own workarounds). I didn't want to tamper with the cycle2.f90 routine and so my fix involves optimising again these overwritten files. Typically, the number of overwritten files is small compared to the overall number of reoptimisations first conducted by CHECKSPMUTATE. For example, with my [wt ChuS + haem + NADH] system (please see CHECKSPMUTATE for details), of the 1235 minima which were reoptimised, it was found that 14 of these had been overwritten.

Files Required

To find out which files had been overwritten in the first place, a sub-directory (called all_launched_simult) was created within checkmin. The following files from checkmin were copied into this new folder:

• aa_ringdata.pyc, amino_acids.pyc, atomnumberlog, coordinates_mut.pyc, coords.inpcrd, coords.mdcrd, coords.prmtop, min.A, min.B, min.data, min.in, mutate_aa.py, newreslog, nresidueslog, odata.checksp, odata (exactly the same as odata.checksp), original_protein.pdb, pathsample_checkmin.out, perm.allow, points.min, points.ts, resnumberlog, ts.data

Additionally, pre_pathdata and pre_sub_script_CUDAOPTIM files of the form:

EXEC           /home/adk44/bin/CUDAOPTIM_ppt_final_210918
CPUS           1
NATOMS         5501
NATOMS_CHAIN   5357
NATOMS_NEW     5464
CHECKSP_MUT
SEED           1
DIRECTION      AB
CONNECTIONS    1
TEMPERATURE    0.592
PLANCK         9.536D-14
DUMMYRUN
PERMDIST
ETOL           8D-4
GEOMDIFFTOL    0.2D0
ITOL           0.1D0
NOINVERSION
NOFRQS
CYCLES 1

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and

#!/bin/bash

# Request 1 TITAN Black GPU - use '--constraint=teslak20' for a Tesla or '--constraint=maxwell' to request a Maxwell GPU for single precision runs
#SBATCH --constraint=titanblack
#SBATCH --job-name=test_top
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:2
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL

hostname
echo "Time: `date`"
source /etc/profile.d/modules.sh

# Load the appropriate compiler modules on the node - should be the same as those used to compile the executable on pat
module add cuda/6.5
module add icc/64/2013_sp1/4/211
module add anaconda/python2/2.2.0 # Needed for python networkx module - must be python 2, not 3

# Set the GPU to exclusive process mode
sudo nvidia-smi -i $CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES -c 3

# Run the executable in the local node scratch directory

echo Finished at `date`

were included.

Before proceeding, we also required duplicates.sh, duplicates.py, duplicates2.py and reoptimise.sh, all of which can be found in /svn/SCRIPTS/PATHSAMPLE/checkspmutate/all_launched_simult/minima.

Execution

First, execute duplicates.sh. This generates checkminfile, a list of all of the minima which were overwritten during the original CHECKSPMUTATE run. It identifies such minima by reading pathsample_checkmin.out (i.e. the output from the CHECKSPMUTATE calculation), which gives a log of all of the random numbers each respective OPTIM job was assigned.

The script reoptimise.sh is then used to reoptimise these overwritten minima. pre_pathdata and sub_script_CUDAOPTIM are first manipulated to ensure the correct minima are reoptimised. Make sure reoptimise.sh assigns an appropriate binary when manipulating the submission script. Each reoptimisation is carried out in a sub-directory named after the index of the minimum being reoptimised.

Note on checkts

Because of slightly different requirements, make sure that the auxiliary files from /svn/SCRIPTS/PATHSAMPLE/checkspmutate/all_launched_simult/TSs are used instead. Also, the file to be read in by duplicates.sh should be called pathsample_checkts.out rather than pathsample_checkmin.out.

readmin/readts

Rationale

Now that we've reoptimised all of the stationary points to our new mutated system/homolgue (bearing in mind that not all will have converged) as well as reoptimised any overwritten ones, we now need to create points.min, min.data, points.ts and ts.data files for our new system. The READMIN keywords can do this by reading in a list of coordinates for all of the reoptimised minima/TSs. Before doing that, we need to create such a file by concatenating all of the min.data.info.**** files into two large min.data.info.total files (one for minima, one for TSs - it is a quirk of the CHECKTS keyword that it also logs its optimised structures in min.data.info.**** files rather than ts.data.info.**** files). I like to keep my minima/TSs in the same order that their equivalents from the original, non-mutated pathway were in, and so concatenate these files in a specific way, whilst ensuring that those from the overwritten reoptimisations are also included.

Files Required

From checkmin/all_launched_simult, copy the following files to the readmin directory:

• checkminfile, coords.inpcrd, coords.mdcrd, coords.prmtop, min.in, pathsample_checkmin.out, perm.allow

From checkmin, copy all of the min.data.info.**** files to the readmin directory.

Also, required:

A pathdata file of the form:

EXEC           /home/adk44/bin/CUDAOPTIM_ppt_final_210918
CPUS           1
NATOMS         5464
SEED           1
DIRECTION      AB
CONNECTIONS    1
TEMPERATURE    0.592
PLANCK         9.536D-14

PERMDIST
ETOL           8D-4
GEOMDIFFTOL    0.2D0
ITOL           0.1D0
NOINVERSION
NOFRQS

READMIN min.data.info.total

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And the bash script, organise_mindatinfo_min.sh, to be found in /svn/SCRIPTS/PATHSAMPLE/checkspmutate/readmin.

Execution

First, the organise_mindatainfo_min.sh file is executed. This gives the min.data.info.total file

Then, execute a PATHSAMPLE binary to run READMIN. This shall give you min.data and points.min files for your new, mutated system.

Note on readts

This is the same as for the readmin procedure above but with a few distinctions. First, carry out the calculations in the folder readts.

Rather than checkminfile and pathsample_checkmin.out, we need the files checktsfile and pathsample_checkts.out

Rather than organise_mindatainfo_min.sh, use the script organise_mindatainfo_ts.sh (to be found in /svn/SCRIPTS/PATHSAMPLE/checkspmutate/readts).

In pathdata, stick with the READMIN (as there isn't actually a READTS keyword available). This is not a big problem - all that we need to do after running the READMIN calculation is to rename points.min to points.ts and min.data to ts.data.

all_opt_TSs

Rationale

Though we now have a database of transition states for our new, mutated system, we have no idea which minima these TSs are directly connected to. To find this out, we need to use the PATH keyword in OPTIM.

Files Required

The following files are copied over from the readts directory to the all_opt_TSs directory. Note: take special care that ts.data and points.ts are copied from readts and NOT from checkts as we are now concerned with the database for the new, mutated system, not the old one.

• coords.inpcrd, coords.mdcrd, coords.prmtop, min.in, perm.allow, points.ts, ts.data

We also require an odata file of the form:

CUDA A
COMMENT DEBUG
COMMENT CUDATIME
COMMENT PERMDIST
EDIFFTOL 8D-4
GEOMDIFFTOL 0.2
MAXMAX 2.0
DUMPALLPATHS
COMMENT DUMPSTRUCTURES
COMMENT MODE -1
DUMPDATA
NOFRQS
UPDATES 20 20
PATH 3
NOPOINTS
BFGSTS 200 20 100 0.01 50
ENDHESS
NOHESS
BFGSSTEPS 10000
BFGSMIN 1D-3
MAXBFGS 1.0
AMBER12 extractedts

A pathdata file of the form:

EXEC           /home/adk44/bin/CUDAOPTIM_ppt_final_210918
CPUS           1
NATOMS         5464
SEED           1
DIRECTION      AB
CONNECTIONS    1
TEMPERATURE    0.592
PLANCK         9.536D-14

PERMDIST
ETOL           8D-4
GEOMDIFFTOL    0.2D0
ITOL           0.1D0
NOINVERSION
NOFRQS
! STEP 1: creating the initial database from A9OPTIM path.info file
! STARTFROMPATH  path.info.initial 1 2
! CYCLES         0

EXTRACTTS 1

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And a sub_script_CUDAOPTIM file of the form:

#!/bin/bash

# Request 1 TITAN Black GPU - use '--constraint=teslak20' for a Tesla or '--constraint=maxwell' to request a Maxwell GPU for single precision runs
#SBATCH --constraint=titanblack
#SBATCH --job-name=m_wt_ChuS
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:2
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL

hostname
echo "Time: `date`"
source /etc/profile.d/modules.sh

# Load the appropriate compiler modules on the node - should be the same as those used to compile the executable on pat
module add cuda/6.5
module add icc/64/2013_sp1/4/211
module add anaconda/python2/2.2.0 # Needed for python networkx module - must be python 2, not 3

# Set the GPU to exclusive process mode
sudo nvidia-smi -i $CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES -c 3

# Run the executable in the local node scratch directory

/home/$USER/bin/CUDAOPTIM_AMB12_gf_030718 > optim.out

echo Finished at `date`

In addition, the following scripts, which can be accessed in /svn/SCRIPTS/PATHSAMPLE/checkspmutate/all_opt_TSs, are required:

• addpath.sh, descents.sh

Execution

First, descents.sh is executed. This extracts all of the transition states in the database, moves them to a subdirectory with an index corresponding to where it appears in ts.data, and then performs the descent calculations to determine the two minima directly connected to this TS. Additionally, this script creates another subdirectory called startfrompath, in which the path.info file generated from the first TS and its two associated minima is used to create a new database (i.e. two minima should appear in min.data and one TS in ts.data).

Once all of the calculations are complete, move into the startfrompath directory and change pathdata to:

EXEC           /home/adk44/bin/CUDAOPTIM_ppt_final_210918
CPUS           1
NATOMS         5464
SEED           1
DIRECTION      AB
CONNECTIONS    1
TEMPERATURE    0.592
PLANCK         9.536D-14

PERMDIST
ETOL           8D-4
GEOMDIFFTOL    0.2D0
ITOL           0.1D0
NOINVERSION
NOFRQS
! STEP 1: creating the initial database from A9OPTIM path.info file
! STARTFROMPATH path.info.initial 1 2
! CYCLES 0

ADDPATH path.info.initial

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Then, move back into the all_opt_TSs directory, and execute addpath.sh. Now, all of the TSs and their associated minima shall be added to the database in the startfrompath directory. Thus now, we don't just have a database of transition states, but of transition states and their associated minima (note that the database of minima obtained in the readmin directory have not yet been added. This will come later).

generate_connectfile

Rationale

This is simply to identify the gaps along the pathway which need to be filled in order to be able to fully connect the first and last transition states in our new database. If the above procedures have been followed correctly, then these two transition states should correspond very closely (if not exactly) to the first and last transition states of the original, non-mutated database.

Files Required

Copy ts.data from startfrompath into the sub-directory generate_connectfile

The following files are required, which can be found in /svn/SCRIPTS/PATHSAMPLE/checkspmutate/generate_connectfile.

• det_connections.sh, generate_connectfile_prep.py, generate_connectfile.py

Execution

Simply execute det_connections.sh. connectfile shall be generated.

merge_minima_into_database

Rationale

Before trying to connect all of the minima as listed in connectfile, it makes sense to include all the minima contained in the readmin database. This gives OPTIM a greater number of pre-existent minima which could be of relevance to draw upon when trying to fill these gaps in the pathway.

Files Required

From startfrompath, copy the following files to the merge_minima_into_database directory:

• coords.inpcrd, coords.mdcrd, coords.prmtop, min.A, min.B, min.data, min.in, perm.allow, points.min, points.ts, ts.data

Use the following pathdata file:

EXEC           /home/adk44/bin/CUDAOPTIM_ppt_final_210918
CPUS           1
NATOMS         5464
SEED           1
DIRECTION      AB
CONNECTIONS    1
TEMPERATURE    0.592
PLANCK         9.536D-14

PERMDIST
ETOL           8D-4
GEOMDIFFTOL    0.2D0
ITOL           0.1D0
NOINVERSION
NOFRQS

MERGEDB ../../../readmin

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Execution

Run the PATHSAMPLE binary. The MERGEDB keywords merges the minima from the readmin directory into the present directory, thus expanding the number of minima in the latter.

now_use_connectfile_to_fill_gaps

Rationale

This is the business-end of this whole procedure. We are now going to run the CONNECTPAIRS algorithm within PATHSAMPLE to try to fill in the gaps in our new, mutated pathway.

Files Required

From merge_minima_into_database, the following files should be copied to now_use_connectfile_to_fill_gaps:

• coords.inpcrd, coords.mdcrd, coords.prmtop, min.A, min.B, min.data, min.in, perm.allow, points.min, points.ts, ts.data

Additionally, connectfile from generate_connectfile needs to be copied across to now_use_connectfile_to_fill_gaps.

Also required are:

odata.connect, of the form:

CUDA A
COMMENT DEBUG
COMMENT CUDATIME
NEWCONNECT 100 3 0.5 100.0 600 1 0.01
NEWNEB 10 500 0.005
ADJUSTK 5 5.0 1.03D0
NEBK 10.0
DIJKSTRA EXP
PERMDIST
EDIFFTOL 8D-4
GEOMDIFFTOL 0.2
PUSHOFF 0.2
COMMENT PERMDIST
BFGSTS 500 10 16 0.01 100
STEPS 1000
USEDIAG 2
DUMPALLPATHS
DUMPDATA

NOHESS
ENDHESS
ENDNUMHESS
NOFRQS
UPDATES 20 20
BFGSSTEPS 10000
BFGSMIN 1D-4
AMBER12 start

pathdata of the form:

EXEC           /home/adk44/bin/CUDAOPTIM_ppt_final_210918
! EXEC           /home/adk44/bin/CUDAOPTIM_stop_large_gap
CPUS           1
NATOMS         5464
SEED           1
DIRECTION      AB
CONNECTIONS    1
TEMPERATURE    0.592
PLANCK         9.536D-14

SLURM
COPYFILES coords.inpcrd coords.mdcrd coords.prmtop min.in
COPYFILES perm.allow

PERMDIST
ETOL           8D-4
GEOMDIFFTOL    0.2D0
ITOL           0.1D0
NOINVERSION
NOFRQS

CONNECTPAIRS connectfile
CYCLES 244

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The number of CYCLES depends on the number of connections we are attempting (i.e. the number of lines in connectfile).

Also required is sub_script_connections, of the form:

#!/bin/bash

# Request 1 TITAN Black GPU - use '--constraint=teslak20' for a Tesla or '--constraint=maxwell' to request a Maxwell GPU for single precision runs
#SBATCH --constraint=titanblack
#SBATCH --job-name=wt_ChuS_ncf
#SBATCH --ntasks=6 --ntasks-per-node=1
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:2
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL

hostname
echo "Time: `date`"
source /etc/profile.d/modules.sh

# Load the appropriate compiler modules on the node - should be the same as those used to compile the executable on pat
module add cuda/6.5
module add icc/64/2013_sp1/4/211
module add anaconda/python2/2.2.0 # Needed for python networkx module - must be python 2, not 3

# Set the GPU to exclusive process mode
sudo nvidia-smi -i $CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES -c 3

echo $SLURM_NTASKS > nodes.info
srun hostname >> nodes.info
echo $USER >> nodes.info
pwd >> nodes.info

# Run the executable in the local node scratch directory
/home/$USER/bin/PATHSAMPLE_gf_CHECKSP_MUT > pathsample_connectfile.out

echo Finished at `date`

Execution

Simply submit the submission script. This is a highly parallelizable calculation, and in the example above I have specified that 6 tasks can run at once, with one task per node. Therefore, six connection attempts can be run in parallel. This, of course, can be set to whatever you like.

It may be the case that some gaps are so large that there is little chance they will get connected. If there are a few of these, then such connections can clog up the overall CONNECTPAIRS process. One way to get round this is to adapt the OPTIM code so that gaps above a certain length are not even attempted. This is the purpose of my other executable in pathdata:

EXEC           /home/adk44/bin/CUDAOPTIM_stop_large_gap

relevant_connected

Rationale

Connection attempts are not always successful. Often this is because the gaps are simply too large to traverse within the given number of connection attempts that have been specified. Some such instances may or may not occur with your system. In case they do (as happened with some of my systems), the methods outlined in Connecting Sub-databases could be very helpful in overcoming this problem. In short, this is a method in which all of the minima within a database are grouped into 'sub-databases'. Each sub-database contains all the minima connected to one another within the overall database, but all of the minima from one sub-database are unconnected from all of the minima in any other sub-database. Once grouped into these sub-databases, this method then compares each and every minima from each sub-database with all of the minima from all of the other sub-databases, finding the distances between them. These distances are then arranged from shortest to longest, and connection attempts made in that order. If two minima from two different sub-databases are then connected (and thus, by implication, all of the minima from these two sub-databases become connected), any further connection attempts between two minima in these two sub-databases become unnecessary and so are skipped. This process continues until all the sub-databases are connected.

This organisational scheme is a useful way of circumventing the need to connect two minima a long way apart. It is often the case that two better candidate minima from the same two sub-databases are available, which are closer in space.

Files Required

From now_use_connectfile_to_fill_gaps, the following should be copied over to relevant_connected:

• coords.inpcrd, coords.mdcrd, coords.prmtop, min.A, min.B, min.data, min.in, odata.connect, perm.allow, points.min, points.ts, ts.data

The following are also required:

• A dinfo file, with PRINTCONNECTED included as a keyword such as:

! REQUIRED KEYWORDS

DELTA 0.25
FIRST -15120.0
LEVELS 800
MINIMA min.data
TS ts.data

! OPTIONAL KEYWORDS

NCONNMIN 0
CONNECTMIN 1
LABELFORMAT F8.1
PRINTCONNECTED

• A pathdata file, such as:

EXEC           /home/adk44/bin/CUDAOPTIM_stop_large_gap
CPUS           1
NATOMS         5464
SEED           1
DIRECTION      AB
CONNECTIONS    1
TEMPERATURE    0.592
PLANCK         9.536D-14


PERMDIST
ETOL           8D-4
GEOMDIFFTOL    0.2D0
ITOL           0.1D0
NOINVERSION
NOFRQS

RETAINSP
! CYCLES 1

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• A submission script for pathsample, sub_script_connections such as:

#!/bin/bash

# Request 1 TITAN Black GPU - use '--constraint=teslak20' for a Tesla or '--constraint=maxwell' to request a Maxwell GPU for single precision runs
#SBATCH --constraint=titanblack
#SBATCH --job-name=wt_ChuS_con
#SBATCH --ntasks=1
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:2
#SBATCH --mail-type=FAIL

hostname
echo "Time: `date`"
source /etc/profile.d/modules.sh

# Load the appropriate compiler modules on the node - should be the same as those used to compile the executable on pat
module add cuda/6.5
module add icc/64/2013_sp1/4/211
module add anaconda/python2/2.2.0 # Needed for python networkx module - must be python 2, not 3

# Set the GPU to exclusive process mode
sudo nvidia-smi -i $CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES -c 3

# Make a temporary directory on the node, copy job files there and change to that directory
TMP=/scratch/$USER/$SLURM_JOB_ID
mkdir -p $TMP
cp ${SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR}/{connectfile,coords.inpcrd,coords.mdcrd,coords.prmtop,odata.connect,min.in,min.A,min.B,min.data,ts.data,points.min,points.ts,pathdata,perm.allow} $TMP
cd $TMP

# Run the executable in the local node scratch directory
/home/$USER/bin/PATHSAMPLE_gf_CHECKSP_MUT > pathsample_connectfile.out

# Copy all files back to the original submission directory
cp * $SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR
STATUS=$?
echo "$STATUS"
if [ $STATUS == 0 ];
   then
      echo "No error in cp"
      cd $SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR
      rm -rf $TMP
fi

echo Finished at `date`

• The bash scripts, find_connections.sh (which can be found in /svn/SCRIPTS/DISCONNECT) and connect_sub_databases.sh (which can be found in /svn/SCRIPTS/PATHSAMPLE/connecting_sub_databases).

Execution

First of all, the minima need to be grouped into sub-databases. I found that the easiest way to do this is by running disconnectionDPS in a loop until all the minima in the database are assigned. This is done by executing find_connections.sh. Before doing so, ensure that the argument to CONNECTMIN is set to 1 and the PRINTCONNECTED keyword is included. Also, make sure to change the disconnectionDPS binary in the bash script to whatever you've called your binary.

I tend to find it a bit of a waste of time to consider really small sub-databases. I only tend to consider sub-databases with 10 minima or more in them. It's up to you what cutoff, if any, you wish to have. For these sub-databases, the connected_* files which list the minima comprising them are copied to relevant_connected_* files. Following the completion of find_connections.sh, the connected_* can simply be deleted, but keep the relevant_connected_* ones. Just make sure that the two minima at the beginning and end of the pathway that you are interested in are retained (i.e. if one of these minima is contained in a connected_* file beneath the cutoff, ensure that this file is also renamed to a relevant_connected_* file).

With the minima now grouped into sub-databases, it is time to try to connect these sub-databases. Therefore, connect_sub_databases.sh should now be executed. Before doing so, though, ensure that the name of the submission script in this bash script is consistent with the name of the submission script in your directory.

This bash script first of all calculates all of the distances between all of the unconnected minima, before rearranging them shortest to longest. Sub-directories are then created, and connections attempted within them to connect all of the various sub-databases. If any of this is unclear, please consult Connecting Sub-databases for more details.

Once all of these connection attempts have been made (and hopefully proven successful), the information in each of these subdirectories need to be merged into the overall one in the directory relevant_connected. Therefore, within the relevant_connected directory, the MERGEDB keyword is introduced to pathdata. To merge the information contained in the subdirectory 00025_00102 into relevant_connected, for example, pathdata would look something like this

EXEC           /home/adk44/bin/CUDAOPTIM_stop_large_gap
CPUS           1
NATOMS         5464
SEED           1
DIRECTION      AB
CONNECTIONS    1
TEMPERATURE    0.592
PLANCK         9.536D-14


PERMDIST
ETOL           8D-4
GEOMDIFFTOL    0.2D0
ITOL           0.1D0
NOINVERSION
NOFRQS

MERGEDB ./00025_00102

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This process is repeated for all of the other subdirectories, changing the argument to MERGEDB each time.

We Now Have a Connected Pathway

Hooray! We should now have a fully connected pathway for our new, mutated system, akin to the one we had in our original, non-mutated system. We can start to compare the two.

Cleaning Up the Pathway

HOWEVER, it must be noted that this new pathway is probably not optimal. Some barriers are probably awfully high, and the pathway can probably be shortened. A series of SHORTCUT/SHORTCUT 2 BARRIER and UNTRAP runs should probably be performed to refine the pathway. I'd recommend doing this in yet another directory, perhaps called s_s2b_and_u, just to differentiate the resulting data from the unrefined pathway so we can better keep track of the changes such refinements make.

A Few Notes

As mentioned at the top of this article, this method to plug in the gaps of a new pathway is highly idiosyncratic, and was particularly useful for the system I was working on. I don't necessarily anticipate it being useful for everybody, and that's why I haven't really generalised the various scripts I've used. Should this prove more popular than I suspect, I would be happy to generalise this code.

One thing to note is that, if you have a really big database describing a large system, it may not be practical to create so many directories, and copy over the large points.min and points.ts files. In which case, some of my scripts will have to be adapted. Again, if anybody struggles doing this, I would be happy to step in and help.

--adk44 18.15, 3 June 2020 (BST)