回复: 回复: [gmx-users] Re: Some questions on Tabulated Dihedral Potential

Ran Friedman r.friedman at bioc.uzh.ch
Tue Jul 21 16:09:20 CEST 2009


As I wrote it der is the derivative itself, so you should plot (-1)*der.
Ran.

hong bingbing wrote:
> Thanks Ran. Should there also be a minus sign before (y[N+1]-y[N-1])
> because the third column in the table is -f'(x)?
> CH
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> Dihedral Potential
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> Ran Friedman wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> The numerical derivative for the Nth value y[N] is calculated as:
>> der = y[N+1] - y[N-1] * 0.5 * deltaX
> Correction:
> der =聽 (y[N+1] - y[N-1]) * 0.5 * deltaX
>> where y is the potential deltaX is the difference between two
>> successive values in your input (e.g., 1 if you have a table that
>> goes from -180 to 180 with 361 values).
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>> I don't think you can print the number without changing the code, but
>> it's not difficult to calculate. You can plot your forces and -der
>> and see where they deviate.
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>> Ran.
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>> hong bingbing wrote:
>>> Hi, Ran,
>>>
>>> The potential f(x) and force -f'(x) in the table are calculated by
>>> myself before constructing the table. The potential can be written
>>> in an analytical form and the force is calculated as the analytical
>>> negative derivative of the potential at point x. There should not be
>>> so large deviation betw. the value I supplied and the value
>>> calculated by GROMACS. Wait. Is there something wrong in my
>>> interpretation? What's 聽your method to get the force? Is there a
>>> way to see the numerical derivative generated by GROMACS?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> CH
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