[gmx-users] wrong calculation of dihedral angle with angle restraint?

[David]

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 18:07 +0100, Tomas Kubar wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to restrain a dihedral angle (i-j-k-l) to -24 deg. In the 
> course of the simulation, the structure of my molecule gets distorted 
> rapidly and the simulation itself crashes with segfault; it seems that 
> the function low_angres() in src/gmxlib/bondfree.c calculates the 
> dihedral angle in a wrong way - only as the angle of vectors ij and kl. 
> This angle differs from the definition of a dihedral angle (maybe it 
> even lies in the interval 0-180 deg) and consequently, the desired value 
> is not reached.
> 
> Do you think my interpretation is right?
do you use angle restraint or dihedral restraints? For the latter I have
just committed a fix to CVS which will be in 3.3.1
> 
> Thanks,
> tom
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