[gmx-users] Targetted MD in Gromacs?

[Eric Jakobsson]

We use another type of restraint, where the structure relaxes towards the 
desired structure by a certain fraction of the distance with each time 
step.  This gives a movement that is essentially completely damped, as 
opposed to a restoring force, which is undamped and gives rise to spurious 
oscillatory modes.

It's pretty straightforward to insert such a restraint as an additional 
option in the module that defines the restraints. (Actually, I didn't do 
this myself--it was done my See-Wing Chiu in our group.)

Eric

At 09:55 AM 5/23/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>David van der Spoel wrote:
> >
>
> > A possibility is to just use weak position restraints, but that may not
> > be enough.
>
>right. especially since restraints will produce strong forces when far
>from the target and weaker ones when approaching it, which might produce
>serious artefacts on the obtained path.
>
> > The ED technique just forces movement along the first three
> > eigenvectors, doesn't it?
>
>no. It can, but it can also impose other kinds of constraints, among
>which the systematic approach towards a target structure. And not only along
>the first three eigenvectors, but along an arbitrarily large subset.
>(possibly if one takes the full set of all-atom eigenvectors, this might
>formally be the same as TMD, but this would be overkill practically; for
>TMD one doesn't need the detour via collective coordinates).
>
> > Another possibility is to use g_morph or
> > g_dyndom to create structures along a reaction coordinate and simulate
> > these to get a continuous path.
> >
>
>yes but then you already predefine the path and the simulated path derived
>from that will not be far from the interpolated one, whereas the true path(s)
>might deviate significantly. In TMD (or ED sampling with a target) only
>the target itself is predefined, not the path. So the system will choose
>the (or a) low energy path that may be very different from the interpolated
>path between initial and target structure (with the only constraint that
>no configuration on the path is farther from the target than the initial
>configuration).
>
>Bert
>
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Eric Jakobsson, Ph.D.
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Biochemistry
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