[gmx-users] Re: [gmx-developers] shell polarizable water model

Jochen Hub jhub at gwdg.de
Fri Oct 12 18:00:36 CEST 2012


Hi,

please google for "polarization catastrophe". There is is a good review 
by Van Gunsteren on this issue. I am afraid there is not a simple 
solution for your problem. You may want to try the swm4-dp model, which 
was more stable in our simulations.

Cheers,
Jochen

Am 10/11/12 8:36 PM, schrieb Ananya Mondal:
> Hi Mikhail,
> I am using GMX4.5.5 to simulate SWM4-NDP polarizable water model, it
> is working fine.
> When i am running separately NA+ polarizable ion in SWM4-NDP  water
> and Cl- polarizable ion in SWM4-NDP polarizable water model, it is
> working fine.
> But when I use the both NA+ and CL- (NaCl salt solution) polarizable
> model which is in conjuction with SWM4-NDP model, the RMS force is
> very large:
>
> can anyone give some idea, what i am missing..
> Thanking you
> Ananya
>
> here is my itp file
> [ defaults ]
> LJ      Geometric
> [ atomtypes ]
> ;name    mass         charge ptype    c6        c12
>    WO    15.99940       0.0     A     0.0        0.0
>    WH     1.00800       0.0     A     0.0        0.0
>    WS     0.0           0.0     S     0.0        0.0
>    WD     0.0           0.0     D     0.0        0.0
>    NAc   22.989769      0.0     A     0.0        0.0
>    NAs    0.0000000     0.0     S     0.0        0.0
>    CLc   35.45300       0.0     A     0.0        0.0
>    CLs    0.0000000     0.0     S     0.0        0.0
> [ nonbond_params ]
> WO      WO      1      3.67796770E-03   3.83182123E-06
> WO      NAc     1      7.84740725E-04   4.51332937E-07
> WO      CLc     1      6.24036649E-03   1.83075990E-05
> NAc     NAc     1      1.56840324E-04   4.66461074E-08
> CLc     CLc     1      9.08923242E-03   6.44595639E-05
> NAc     CLc     1      1.46880350E-03   2.62418143E-06
> [ moleculetype ]
> ; molname       nrexcl
> SM2             2
> [ atoms ]
> ; id    at type res nr  residu name     at name         cg nr   charge
> 1       WO      1       SM2             OW1             1      1.71636
> 2       WH      1       SM2             HW2             1      0.55733
> 3       WH      1       SM2             HW3             1      0.55733
> 4       WD      1       SM2             DW              1     -1.11466
> 5       WS      1       SM2             SW              1     -1.71636
> [ polarization ]
> 1       5       1       0.00097822
> [ constraints ]
> ; i     funct   doh     dhh
> 1       2       1       0.09572
> 1       3       1       0.09572
> 3       2       1       0.15139
> [ virtual_sites3 ]
> 4       1       2       3       2       0.5      0.024034
> [ exclusions ]
> ; iatom excluded from interaction with i
> 1       2       3       4       5
> 2       1       3       4       5
> 3       1       2       4       5
> 4       1       2       3       5
> 5       1       2       3       4
> [ moleculetype ]
> ; molname       nrexcl
> NA+            1
> [ atoms ]
> ; id    at type res nr  residu name     at name cg nr   charge
> 1       NAc       1       NA             NAc    1        1.687597
> 2       NAs       1       NA             NAs    1       -0.687597
> [ polarization ]
> ; See notes above.      alpha (nm^3)
> 1       2       1       0.000157
> [ exclusions ]
> ; iatom excluded from interaction with i
> 1       2
> 2       1
>
> [ moleculetype ]
> ; molname       nrexcl
> Cl-             1
>
> [ atoms ]
> ; id    at type res nr  residu name     at name cg nr   charge
> 1       CLc     1       ion             CLc     1        2.457187
> 2       CLs     1       ion             CLs     1       -3.457187
>
> [ polarization ]
> ; See notes above.      alpha (nm^3)
> 1       2       1       0.003969
>
> [ exclusions ]
> ; iatom excluded from interaction with i
> 1       2
> 2       1
>
> here is my g.mdb file
>
> include                  =
> define                   =
> integrator               = md
> tinit                    = 0
> dt                       = 0.0005
> nsteps                   = 1000000
> init_step                = 0
> simulation_part          = 1
> comm-mode                = Linear
> nstcomm                  = 10
> comm-grps                = system
> bd-fric                  = 0
> ld-seed                  = 1993
> emtol                    = 0.1
> emstep                   = 0.01
> niter                    = 30
> fcstep                   = 0
> nstcgsteep               = 1000
> nbfgscorr                = 10
> rtpi                     = 0.05
> nstxout                  = 10
> nstvout                  = 00
> nstfout                  = 0
> nstlog                   = 50
> nstcalcenergy            = -1
> nstenergy                = 10
> nstxtcout                = 250
> xtc-precision            = 1000
> xtc-grps                 =
> energygrps               = System
> nstlist                  = 5
> ns-type                  = grid
> pbc                      = xyz
> rlist                    = 0.75
> coulombtype              = PME
> rcoulomb-switch          = 0
> rcoulomb                 = 0.75
> epsilon_r                = 1
> epsilon_rf               = 1
> vdw-type                 = Cut-off
> rvdw-switch              = 0
> rvdw                     = 0.75
> DispCorr                 = EnerPres
> table-extension          = 1
> energygrp_table          =
> fourierspacing           = 0.12
> fourier_nx               = 32
> fourier_ny               = 32
> fourier_nz               = 32
> pme_order                = 4
> ewald_rtol               = 1e-05
> ewald_geometry           = 3d
> epsilon_surface          = 0
> optimize_fft             = no
> gb_algorithm             = Still
> nstgbradii               = 0
> rgbradii                 = 0
> gb_saltconc              = 0
> implicit_solvent         = No
> tcoupl                   = nose-hoover
> nsttcouple               = -1
> nh-chain-length          = 10
> tc-grps                  = system
> tau-t                    = 0.05
> ref-t                    = 300
> gen-vel                  = yes
> gen-temp                 = 300
> gen-seed                 = 173529
> constraints              = all-bonds
> constraint-algorithm     = shake
> continuation             = no
> Shake-SOR                = no
> shake-tol                = 0.0001
> lincs-order              = 4
> lincs-iter               = 2
> lincs-warnangle          = 30
> morse                    = no
> energygrp_excl           =
> nwall                    = 0
> wall_type                = 9-3
> wall_r_linpot            = -1
> wall_atomtype            =
> wall_density             =
> wall_ewald_zfac          = 3
> pull                     = no
> disre                    = No
> disre-weighting          = Conservative
> disre-mixed              = no
> disre-fc                 = 1000
> disre-tau                = 0
> nstdisreout              = 100
> orire                    = no
> orire-fc                 = 0
> orire-tau                = 0
> orire-fitgrp             =
> nstorireout              = 100
> dihre                    = no
> dihre-fc                 = 1000
> free-energy              = no
> init-lambda              = 0
> delta-lambda             = 0
> foreign_lambda           =
> sc-alpha                 = 0
> sc-power                 = 0
> sc-sigma                 = 0.3
> nstdhdl                  = 10
> separate-dhdl-file       = yes
> dhdl-derivatives         = yes
> dh_hist_size             = 0
> dh_hist_spacing          = 0.1
> couple-moltype           =
> couple-lambda0           = vdw-q
> couple-lambda1           = vdw-q
> couple-intramol          = no
> userreal4                = 0
>

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Dr. Jochen Hub
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Institute for Microbiology and Genetics
Georg-August-University of Göttingen
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