[gmx-users] potential energy of a peptide in explicit DMSO

Xiaoming Zhang smash04 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 20:18:01 CEST 2005


Thank you, David.  My solvent is DMSO.  I guess it will make
contribution to bondeds?  If it does, then seems difficult to isolate
the bonded energies for the peptide.

xm

On 7/27/05, David <spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 22:14 -0500, Xiaoming Zhang wrote:
> > Sorry, I should also include the bonded terms.  But those bondeds are
> > for the whole system, aren't they?
> yes, but if the rest is water there is no contribution to the bonded
> energy.
> > xm
> >
> > On 7/26/05, Xiaoming Zhang <smash04 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks a lot, Anton.  I simply changed the energy group in .mdp file
> > > from "System" to "Protein" and then I can see some energy terms for
> > > the protein when using g_energy.  However, I am confused about which
> > > energy terms I should used to calculate the potential energy for the
> > > peptide.  I searched the gromacs achieve and noticed that some other
> > > users had the same confusion but no clear answer had been provided.
> > > The following is my energy output from g_energy:
> > >
> > > **************************************************************************************
> > > Select the terms you want from the following list
> > > End your selection with 0
> > >   1=          Bond   2=         Angle   3=   Proper Dih.   4=Ryckaert-Bell.
> > >   5= Improper Dih.   6=         LJ-14   7=    Coulomb-14   8=       LJ (SR)
> > >   9= Disper. corr.  10=  Coulomb (SR)  11=  Coulomb (LR)  12=     Potential
> > >  13=   Kinetic En.  14=  Total Energy  15=   Temperature  16=Pressure (bar)
> > >  17=         Box-X  18=         Box-Y  19=         Box-Z  20=        Volume
> > >  21=  Density (SI)  22=            pV  23=        Vir-XX  24=        Vir-XY
> > >  25=        Vir-XZ  26=        Vir-YX  27=        Vir-YY  28=        Vir-YZ
> > >  29=        Vir-ZX  30=        Vir-ZY  31=        Vir-ZZ  32= Pres-XX (bar)
> > >  33= Pres-XY (bar)  34= Pres-XZ (bar)  35= Pres-YX (bar)  36= Pres-YY (bar)
> > >  37= Pres-YZ (bar)  38= Pres-ZX (bar)  39= Pres-ZY (bar)  40= Pres-ZZ (bar)
> > >  41= #Surf*SurfTen  42=  Pcoupl-Mu-XX  43=  Pcoupl-Mu-YY  44=  Pcoupl-Mu-ZZ
> > >  45=          Mu-X  46=          Mu-Y  47=          Mu-Z
> > > 48=Coul-SR:Protein-Protein
> > >  49=LJ:Protein-Protein  50=Coul-LR:Protein-Protein
> > > 51=Coul-14:Protein-Protein  52=LJ-14:Protein-Protein
> > >  53=Coul-SR:Protein-rest  54=LJ:Protein-rest  55=Coul-LR:Protein-rest
> > >  56=Coul-14:Protein-rest
> > >  57=LJ-14:Protein-rest  58=Coul-SR:rest-rest  59=  LJ:rest-rest
> > > 60=Coul-LR:rest-rest
> > >  61=Coul-14:rest-rest  62=LJ-14:rest-rest  63=      T-System  64=   Lamb-System
> > > 48
> > > 49
> > > 50
> > > 51
> > > 52
> > > 0
> > >
> > > Back Off! I just backed up energy.xvg to ./#energy.xvg.4#
> > > Reading frame     70 time   35.000
> > > Last frame read 76
> > > WARNING: Incomplete frame: nr     77 time   38.000
> > >
> > >
> > > Statistics over 37501 steps [ 0.0000 thru 37.5000 ps ], 5 data sets
> > >
> > > Energy                      Average       RMSD     Fluct.      Drift  Tot-Drift
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Coul-SR:Protein-Protein    -345.062    13.3941    12.7896  -0.367516   -13.7822
> > > LJ:Protein-Protein         -33.7676    7.30473    7.02883  -0.183696   -6.88877
> > > Coul-LR:Protein-Protein           0          0          0          0          0
> > > Coul-14:Protein-Protein     719.375    9.16447    8.66907   0.274566    10.2965
> > > LJ-14:Protein-Protein       71.2596    9.28124    9.27777 -0.0234419  -0.879095
> > >
> > > gcq#225: "Everybody is Smashing Things Down" (Offspring)
> > >
> > > ****************************************************************************************
> > >
> > > Is it correct to simply add up those five energies to get potential energy?
> > >
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > xm
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7/26/05, Anton Feenstra <feenstra at few.vu.nl> wrote:
> > > > Xiaoming Zhang wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Dear users,
> > > > >
> > > > > I am running the MD simulation of a cyclic peptide in explicit DMSO.
> > > > > It is straightforward to retrieve the potential energy of the whole
> > > > > system (peptide + DMSO) using g_energy.  However, I didn't find a way
> > > > > to calculate/retrieve the potential energy for the peptide only.  I
> > > > > was wondering if any of you had the experience and knew how to deal
> > > > > with it.
> > > >
> > > > You need to define energy groups in your mdp file before you perform the
> > > > simulation. Alternately, you can re-run your generated trajectory. See
> > > > manual for more details.
> > > >
> > > > --
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> > > >
> > > > Anton
> > > >
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