[gmx-users] FW: about atom perturbation in TI

[David van der Spoel]

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 09:05, Alexey Romanov wrote:
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> From: Alexey Romanov [mailto:Alexey.Romanov at algodign.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 1:12 PM
> To: 'gmx-users at gromacs.org'
> Subject: about atom perturbation in TI
> 
> Hi, GMX users!
> Currently I am working with thermodynamic integration options (slow
> growth) of gromacs (for example - perturbing charges of molecule to
> nothing in water solvent).
> All works fine, but when I try to do this for molecule in vacuum
> (without solvation), I always get zero free energy change. I think, that
> it's not correct, because the charges in perturbed molecule have an
> effect on other charges of the same molecule, in other words, free
> energy of molecule charging in vacuum must be nonzero. Is it a bug, or
> may be, in Gromacs molecule perturbations are seen only to the other
> molecules?
> Regards
Is there normal intramolecular interaction energy in the molecule? Could
it be due to exclusions?


> Alex Romanov,
> Moscow.
-- 
Groeten, David.
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