[Spam:*****] [gmx-users] REMD analysis

XAvier Periole x.periole at rug.nl
Thu May 16 10:36:01 CEST 2013


You have to convince yourself, not me :)) But I can give you my opinion … 

On May 16, 2013, at 10:33 AM, bharat gupta <bharat.85.monu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay Sir, I will try two-three combinations this time and will report back
> to you ...
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:25 PM, XAvier Periole <x.periole at rug.nl> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> An acceptance ratio of 0.2/0.3 is normally best. The problem with high
>> acceptance ratio is that it means that a large portion of the exchanges are
>> just back and forth exchanges between consecutive exchange and are thus
>> disturbing the system more that actually helping sampling.
>> 
>> I do not know particularly the paper you mention but if you like what they
>> do, it is your choice at the end.
>> 
>> Why don;t you just increase the spacing between the replicas? You will
>> need less replicas and potentially you could run two simulations instead of
>> one and evaluate the convergence ...
>> 
>> On May 16, 2013, at 1:50 AM, bharat gupta <bharat.85.monu at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> The plots that I showed in my last mail were for all replicas. I tried
>>> plotting the first 500 ps of replica_index and replica_time files. I
>> think
>>> the plots look fine, and there could be problem with the plotting tool .
>>> Here the link for both files ,
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/2g16mlxfsme4rx2/replica_temp.bmp
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/8jfs0b9whu6j7lo/replica_index.bmp
>>> 
>>> Now regarding the high acceptance ratio which is 0.5 , I came across a
>>> paper (http://www.pnas.org/content/100/13/7587.full.pdf), here they have
>>> mentioned that their average acceptance ratio ranged between 30 to 80%. I
>>> have a question here, how did they calculate the range for the average
>>> acceptance ratio or is it average ratio for each replica . Actually, this
>>> is the reference I am following. I am also interested in peptide folding
>>> simulation, similar to this article.
>>> 
>>> I want to know, whether the average acceptance ratio that I have got for
>> my
>>> trial simulation is correct , together with the replica_temp and
>>> replica_remd plots. Can I proceed for large production runs to complete
>> my
>>> experiment ??
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:34 PM, XAvier Periole <x.periole at rug.nl>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The interval between the exchange trial affect the efficiency of REMD
>> but
>>>> not the the exchange ratio (at least in principle).
>>>> 
>>>> In you case I am not sure what the plot are showing! Are these showing
>> all
>>>> the replicas? what are the units?
>>>> 
>>>> On May 14, 2013, at 5:07 AM, bharat gupta <bharat.85.monu at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Dear Sir,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here's the result for the REMD trial with large temperature gaps.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Temp. distribution : 280.0 294.9 310.7 327.3 344.7 363.1 382.5 402.9
>>>> 424.4
>>>>> 447.1 471.0 496.1 522.6 550.5 579.9 610.8
>>>>> 
>>>>> Out of md16.log :
>>>>> 
>>>>> Replica exchange statistics
>>>>> Repl  249 attempts, 125 odd, 124 even
>>>>> Repl  average probabilities:
>>>>> Repl     0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   11   12
>>>>> 13   14   15
>>>>> Repl      .40  .34  .38  .43  .43  .36  .45  .40  .37  .48  .47  .45
>> .47
>>>>> .44  .46
>>>>> 
>>>>> Repl  number of exchanges:
>>>>> Repl     0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   11   12
>>>>> 13   14   15
>>>>> Repl       50   42   46   52   57   40   58   49   42   53   61   63
>> 56
>>>>> 57   58
>>>>> 
>>>>> Repl  average number of exchanges:
>>>>> Repl     0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   11   12
>>>>> 13   14   15
>>>>> Repl      .40  .34  .37  .42  .46  .32  .46  .40  .34  .43  .49  .51
>> .45
>>>>> .46  .46
>>>>> Average acceptance ratio : 0.46
>>>>> 
>>>>> But, the repli_index.xvg and replica_temp.xvg files still shows that
>> the
>>>>> replicas does not exchange equally well .
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/zkbwpuj7l2o282b/replica_index.png
>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/0c8gp584v1hvlbx/replica_temp.png
>>>>> 
>>>>> what could be wrong in this case?? Is it the mdp file settings or
>>>> implicit
>>>>> solvent setting. Does the time to replica to exhange also affects their
>>>>> swapping ??
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:24 AM, XAvier Periole <x.periole at rug.nl>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You need to increase the temperature gaps indeed if you want
>> acceptance
>>>>>> ratio ~0.2/0.3. But again this won't work with the water …
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It is not clear what happens in your index file but probably a problem
>>>>>> from grace to plot so many points … you can try to increase the "Max
>>>>>> drawing path length" in the preference menu of grace.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On May 13, 2013, at 4:22 PM, bharat gupta <bharat.85.monu at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Dear Sir,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I repeated the simulation again for 25 replicas with the following
>>>> temp.
>>>>>>> distribution .
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 280
>>>>>>> 289.1
>>>>>>> 298.5
>>>>>>> 308.2
>>>>>>> 318.2
>>>>>>> 328.6
>>>>>>> 339.3
>>>>>>> 350.3
>>>>>>> 361.7
>>>>>>> 373.5
>>>>>>> 385.6
>>>>>>> 398.1
>>>>>>> 411.1
>>>>>>> 424.4
>>>>>>> 438.3
>>>>>>> 452.5
>>>>>>> 467.2
>>>>>>> 482.4
>>>>>>> 498.1
>>>>>>> 514.3
>>>>>>> 531.0
>>>>>>> 548.3
>>>>>>> 566.1
>>>>>>> 584.5
>>>>>>> 603.5
>>>>>>> 623.2
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The output of md.log file is :-
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Replica exchange statistics
>>>>>>> Repl  24999 attempts, 12500 odd, 12499 even
>>>>>>> Repl  average probabilities:
>>>>>>> Repl     0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   11
>> 12
>>>>>>> 13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25
>>>>>>> Repl      .63  .63  .62  .62  .61  .61  .60  .60  .59  .59  .58  .59
>>>> .59
>>>>>>> .60  .60  .61  .62  .62  .63  .64  .64  .65  .65  .66  .66
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Repl  number of exchanges:
>>>>>>> Repl     0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   11
>> 12
>>>>>>> 13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25
>>>>>>> Repl     7822 7752 7816 7760 7639 7628 7511 7442 7375 7332 7312 7424
>>>> 7408
>>>>>>> 7410 7522 7559 7684 7697 7878 7927 7917 8073 8151 8208 8266
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Repl  average number of exchanges:
>>>>>>> Repl     0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   11
>> 12
>>>>>>> 13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25
>>>>>>> Repl      .63  .62  .63  .62  .61  .61  .60  .60  .59  .59  .58  .59
>>>> .59
>>>>>>> .59  .60  .60  .61  .62  .63  .63  .63  .65  .65  .66  .66
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The average acceptance ration is around 0.6 which is still high.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The link for replica_temp,replica_index :
>>>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/c7soajnwc3uww8j/replica_temp.png
>>>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/wvx82m4c6cnsfit/replica_index.png
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The temp files look better but the index file looks weird ...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Do i need to experiment with the gap difference in order to get the
>>>>>>> required ration of 0.2-0.3 ?? There is some problem with the .mdp
>> file
>>>>>>> settings??
>>>>>>> 
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