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

Mark Abraham mark.j.abraham at gmail.com
Thu May 16 16:24:33 CEST 2013


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:04 PM, bharat gupta <bharat.85.monu at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Sir,
>
> Here's the result of three different runs :
>
> Temperature distribution for three trials
>
> Repeat-1  280 298 317 337 359 382 406 432 460 489 520 554 589 627
> Repeat-2  280 299 319 340 363 388 414 441 471 503 536 572 611
> Repeat-3  280 300 322 345 370 397 426 457 490 526 564 605 649
>
> md.log files output from three different trials:
>
> Repeat-1  .37  .28  .26  .30  .25  .29  .32  .35  .32  .35  .36  .32  .31
> Repeat-2  .30  .33  .30  .25  .19  .27  .30  .31  .27  .40  .34  .31
> Repeat-3  .18  .22  .26  .34  .26  .28  .25  .27  .27  .25  .27  .22
>
> I think as the required acceptance value all the three trials are fine, but
> trail 3 would be much better to continue the further runs and anlysis ??
>


Probably. But exchange acceptance is a poor proxy for sampling efficiency -
see recent discussions of REMD on this list.

Mark

So, is it fine to continue with the third simulation ?? But still the
> problem is that I am not getting the exact graphs with xmgrace??
>
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:36 PM, XAvier Periole <x.periole at rug.nl> wrote:
>
> >
> > 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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