To see piper commands and options, open your terminal and go to where the binary codes of piper are. Then, run the below command:
$ ./piper --help
Now, you will see the following options:
usage: ./piper [options] RECEPTOR LIGAND
perform fft docking of RECEPTOR and LIGAND
-f <coeffs> Use <coeffs> as the coefficient parameter file
(default: coef.prm)
-p <atom> Use <atom> as atom parameter file
(default: atom.prm)
-r <rots> Use <rots> as the rotations parameter file
(default: rot.prm)
--ff-psf-rec=FILE Use FILE as the receptor force field psf file
(default: rec.psf)
--ff-psf-lig=FILE Use FILE as the ligand force field psf file
(default: lig.psf)
-v Increase verbosity. Multiple -v options increase
the verbosity. The maximum is 2.
--print-grids Print the grid files
-c <cellsize> Use <cellsize> as grid cell size (default: 1.0)
--grid-pad=<pad> Use <pad> as fft grid padding (default: 2)
--lig-all-sa Rather than calculating solvent accessibility, mark all atoms as solvent accessible
-k <k> Use first <k> eigenvalues from prm file (default: all)
-R <nrots> Use first <nrots> rotation matrices from rotation file
(default: all)
--surface-potential Place pairwise potential only on surface atoms.
-T <plan type> Use <plan type> as planning type rigor for fftw.
(default: FFTW_ESTIMATE)
-d <radius> Use <radius> as the angstrom radius of the top hit per
rotation to be marked. (default: 5.0)
-t <N> Save the top <N> results from each rotation.
(default: 1)
--pb=FILE Read poisson boltzmann grid from FILE
--pbt=<t> Use <t> for poisson boltzmann extrema threshold (default: 40.0)
--pb-scale=<k> Use <k> for poisson boltzmann grid scaling (default: 1.0)
--water_sigma=<sigma> Use <sigma> for gaussian water sphere (default: 10.0)
--enative Print energies for given input structures
--maskrec=FILE Mask receptor with FILE
--masklig=FILE Mask ligand with FILE
--maskr=<k> Mask all atoms within <k> angstroms of mask atoms
--axis=FILE Enforce symmetric docking. Use axis file
--scale_radii=<k> Use <k> for prm radii scaling (default: 1.0)
--msur_k=<k> Use <k> for msur solvent and prm radii scaling (default: 1.0)
--rvdw_sa_scale=<k> Repulsive vdw sa scale (default: 0.9)
--rvdw_nsa_scale=<k> Repulsive vdw not sa scale (default: 1.2)
--avdw_sa_scale=<k> Attractive vdw sa scale (default: 0.0)
--avdw_sa_inc=<k> Attractive vdw sa increment (default: 6.5)
--avdw_nsa_scale=<k> Attractive vdw not sa scale (default: 0.0)
--avdw_nsa_inc=<k> Attractive vdw not sa increment (default: 6.5)
--box=FILE Select FTRESULTS with box from FILE
--box-pad=<float> Padding around box (default=0.0)
--restraints=FILE Use restraints from FILE
-h, --help Display this help and exit
-V, --version Display the version information and exit