[gmx-users] Wrong profile obtained in umbrella sampling tutorial

[Justin Lemkul]

On 12/14/14 9:33 PM, Victor Rosas Garcia wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm back.  From the last time I tried this, I took all the
> configurations (all 500) and did the npt_umbrella equilibration.
> *Then* I was able to pick evenly spaced configurations (25 of them)
> and ran the md_umbrella. This is my histogram (g_wham does not
> complain about poor sampling anywhere):
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2K7fedV_ZFzRF9qd2FsMTdrSm8/view?usp=sharing
>
> and my profile is still wrong
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2K7fedV_ZFzUTZ6ZW54QXR5a2s/view?usp=sharing
>
> Perhaps I need to go up to 31 windows, like in the paper?
>

Yes, as is stated in the tutorial.  You won't get the same exact profile unless 
you do the same exact procedure.  The profile in the tutorial is merely an 
illustrative example; the tutorial itself is a quick and dirty version of the 
better sampling in the paper, done for didactic reasons.

-Justin

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