Should I be stripping water molecules from my input structure for Rosetta Design?
So I've ran my fixbb rosetta design script and have been happily doing some analysis work, but it just occured to me that I had stripped all the water molecules from my input protein structure and I'm curious whether that biases the rosetta design in a negative way.
What I want to do with my project is to take a fixed-backbone structure of my choosing, optimize the sidechain identities using Rosetta, and then ultimately express it in a cell to see if the optimized sequence folds back into the original backbone conformation.