[gmx-users]Question about reduced unit for coarse grain

Ye Yang knightyangpku at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 04:26:34 CEST 2011


Thank you very much, Mark.

Is there anyway I can know the unit of input from the top file? I am not
sure what I am getting from the webtool, although it shows "kj/mol" the
instruction on the web says the unit is reduced unit, which makes me
confused. In the former case I do not need to convert, but in latter case, I
need to convert to standard units. The webtool is from
http://smog.ucsd.edu/sbm_faq.html, it is developped by Dr. Onuchic's group
in UCSD.
Has anyone used this?


 [ angles ]
 ;ai  aj   ak  func  th0(deg)   Ka
     1      2      3 1  0.95664E+02  0.40000E+02
     2      3      4 1  0.91183E+02  0.40000E+02
     3      4      5 1  0.89842E+02  0.40000E+02
     4      5      6 1  0.91965E+02  0.40000E+02
     5      6      7 1  0.90670E+02  0.40000E+02
     6      7      8 1  0.91186E+02  0.40000E+02
     7      8      9 1  0.92703E+02  0.40000E+02
     8      9     10 1  0.91537E+02  0.40000E+02
     9     10     11 1  0.91328E+02  0.40000E+02
    10     11     12 1  0.92557E+02  0.40000E+02
    11     12     13 1  0.93372E+02  0.40000E+02
    12     13     14 1  0.94347E+02  0.40000E+02
    13     14     15 1  0.99411E+02  0.40000E+02
    14     15     16 1  0.98190E+02  0.40000E+02
......
 [ dihedrals ]
 ;ai  aj  ak  al  func  phi0(deg)   Kd(kJ/mol)  mult
     1      2      3      4 1  0.24358E+03  0.10000E+01 1
     1      2      3      4 1  0.73074E+03  0.50000E+00 3
     2      3      4      5 1  0.22823E+03  0.10000E+01 1
     2      3      4      5 1  0.68469E+03  0.50000E+00 3
     3      4      5      6 1  0.23172E+03  0.10000E+01 1
     3      4      5      6 1  0.69515E+03  0.50000E+00 3
     4      5      6      7 1  0.22982E+03  0.10000E+01 1
     4      5      6      7 1  0.68946E+03  0.50000E+00 3


Thank you very much.

Ye

2011/6/22 Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>

> **
> On 23/06/2011 10:36 AM, Ye Yang wrote:
>
> Hi,
>     Thanks for replying, Yang.
>     But I still did not get it fully:
>     1. So if we use reduced unit in input, the output and calculation is
> still assumed to be in standard units?
>
>
> The calculation uses the same algorithm and whatever values you input.
> Nowhere have you specified that these values are in anything other than the
> standard units, so how could GROMACS know to change anything? (Nor can you
> specify such)
>
>
>  But the calculation itself is different since the constants are
> different, so the result must differed a lot. Does gromacs knows that we are
> using reduced unit?
>
>
> No. It's up to you to use a self-consistent set of input parameters, and to
> interpret the results correctly.
>
>
>      2. With this program/forcefield to build top file automaticly, the
> KJ/mol it gives is in the top file, so it is still part of input, in this
> case , the gromacs will recognize it in the standard unit?
>
>
> It doesn't recognize units. It follows an algorithm that is correct if all
> the quantities are measured in the standard units. If you change something,
> you have to understand all the consequences and interpret appropriately :-)
>
> Mark
>
>
>      3. in the top file it gives:
>
>  [ angles ]
>  ;ai  aj   ak  func  th0(deg)   Ka
>      1      2      3 1  0.95664E+02  0.40000E+02
>      2      3      4 1  0.91183E+02  0.40000E+02
>      3      4      5 1  0.89842E+02  0.40000E+02
>      4      5      6 1  0.91965E+02  0.40000E+02
>      5      6      7 1  0.90670E+02  0.40000E+02
>      6      7      8 1  0.91186E+02  0.40000E+02
>      7      8      9 1  0.92703E+02  0.40000E+02
>      8      9     10 1  0.91537E+02  0.40000E+02
>      9     10     11 1  0.91328E+02  0.40000E+02
>     10     11     12 1  0.92557E+02  0.40000E+02
>     11     12     13 1  0.93372E+02  0.40000E+02
>     12     13     14 1  0.94347E+02  0.40000E+02
>     13     14     15 1  0.99411E+02  0.40000E+02
>     14     15     16 1  0.98190E+02  0.40000E+02
> ......
>  [ dihedrals ]
>  ;ai  aj  ak  al  func  phi0(deg)   Kd(kJ/mol)  mult
>      1      2      3      4 1  0.24358E+03  0.10000E+01 1
>      1      2      3      4 1  0.73074E+03  0.50000E+00 3
>      2      3      4      5 1  0.22823E+03  0.10000E+01 1
>      2      3      4      5 1  0.68469E+03  0.50000E+00 3
>      3      4      5      6 1  0.23172E+03  0.10000E+01 1
>      3      4      5      6 1  0.69515E+03  0.50000E+00 3
>      4      5      6      7 1  0.22982E+03  0.10000E+01 1
>      4      5      6      7 1  0.68946E+03  0.50000E+00 3
>
>
> Seems to me that this is the standard unit, yet the author of the webtool
> emphasize that this structure based cg model is in reduced unit, so what
> result do I got?
> Has anyone used this webtool to do CG simulation and explain what is case?
>
> Thank you all very much.
>
> Ye
>
> 2011/6/22 Yang Ye <leafyoung at yahoo.com>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  The unit in output is in assumed to be for the standard unit input while
>> the value is in reduced unit.
>>
>>  So you need to do your own calculation to figure out what's the reduced
>> unit is.
>>
>>  Regards,
>> Yang Ye
>>
>>  On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Ye Yang <knightyangpku at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  Dear all:
>>>         I see from the user's manual that if our input is in reduced
>>> unit, the output will also be in reduced unit(,
>>> ftp://ftp.gromacs.org/pub/manual/3.1/manual-a4-3.1.1.pdf), P25.  On the
>>> contrary, if we use standard unit, the out put will be in standard unit.
>>>         This brings the question up when we use coarse grain Clementi's
>>> model webtool (http://smog.ucsd.edu/sbm_faq.html), according to the
>>> author, it seems that everything is in reduced unit, so the output file
>>> should also be in reduced unit, yet I found the topology file that the
>>> energy unit is KJ/mol. What exactly is the unit of the input and out put
>>> file? When I pull the molecules, do I get the reduced unit result or the
>>> physical unit result?
>>>         Since I am an experimentalist, getting the physical units is more
>>> important to me, so as to compare with the experimental results, albeit the
>>> intrinsic difference. If I get something in reduced unit, there is necessity
>>> for me to change it into physical unit, or at least clarify it in
>>> comparison.
>>>         Thank you very much.
>>>
>>> Ye
>>>
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