[gmx-users] New ion parameters and OPLS-AA

[David van der Spoel]

On 12/15/09 11:03 PM, Reza Salari wrote:
> Thanks for your response.
>
> While I will try that (although it seems it needs quite amount of
> scripting), I remember in the past some people in the mailing list
> mentioned problems while using nonbond_params directvie with OPLS-AA and
> in response it was generally suggested to avoid doing this kind of
> mixing. Like Dr Abraham suggestion here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gmx-users@gromacs.org/msg23147.html
>
> Have you tried this kind of mixing for OPLS successfully, without being
> overridden by the default rules?
>
> The main thing that I am still unsure about is how the previously
> mentioned paper converted the sigma values for different combination
> rules. It seems that there must be a relatively direct way to do this
> without going through the re-parametrization process.

Unfortunately the combination rules are part of the parameterization, 
simply because changing the combination rules means changing the 
parameters. Hence I would suggest you look for ion parameters that are 
compatible with your force field of choice, alternatively a force field 
that is compatible with your ions of choice. Since these ion parameters 
were developed by Tom Cheatham I presume that Amber would be a suitable 
force field.

>
> Regards,
> Reza Salari
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Andrew Paluch <apaluch at nd.edu>
> *To:* Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org>
> *Sent:* Tue, December 15, 2009 4:34:18 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [gmx-users] New ion parameters and OPLS-AA
>
> Read the manual. You can explicitly declare all of your cross terms
> rather than using the same mixing rule for all terms. You can easily
> write a script to modify your input files accordingly,
>
> Andrew
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Reza Salari <resal81 at yahoo.com
> <mailto:resal81 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     Recently there has been a new set of ion parameters published by
>     Joung and Chetham and I am interested in running some test runs
>     using these parameters. These set of parameters are based on using
>     LB rule (arithmetic mean) for sigmas.
>
>     However I am using OPLS-AA ff so I am using the combination rule 3
>     (geometric mean of corresponding A and B values). My question is
>     that can I use the exact sigma values from Cheatham for my
>     simulations? I'm almost positive that I have to change these sigma
>     values to be consistent with the combination rule that I am using.
>     In fact there is a paper by Horinek et al that has a nice table of
>     different ionic sigma and epsilon values from different parameter
>     sets (Aqvist, Jensen, Cheatham,..). The article is here:
>     http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JCPSA6000130000012124507000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes
>     <http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JCPSA6000130000012124507000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes>
>
>     In that table, they have mentioned two sigmas; a usual sigma (which
>     is used with rule 2) and a sigma prime (which can be used with rule
>     3). However it seems sort of unclear to me how they got these value
>     since in some references that they've mentioned I could find either
>     sigma or sigma prime, not both. So I am guessing there must be some
>     way to convert these two sigmas to each other.
>
>     So does anyone know if there is such way? Does GROMACS internally
>     treats sigmas as "sigma prime" for OPLS-AA? I looked at the manual
>     and also searched the mailing list to find an explanation but
>     without luck. I really appreciate any help on clarifying this.
>
>     Regards,
>     Reza Salari
>
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