[gmx-users] LR electrostatics in single point energy calculations

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Wed Jan 15 18:52:41 CET 2014



On 1/15/14, 11:57 AM, rajat desikan wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> I meant the pairwise interaction energies and not the total potential energy (I
> plan to define a 'interaction energy' by summing up all the individual terms). I
> followed your argument on the total potential energy of the protein being a
> function of the forcefield.
>
> I need the interaction parameters along with the LR terms. I am wondering how to
> do that.
>
> g_energy also gives me only the SR and 14 options. Here is part of a snapshot of
> the available options:
>
> ...
> 47  Box-Vel-ZZ                              48  Coul-SR:Protein-Protein
> 49  LJ-SR:Protein-Protein               50  Coul-14:Protein-Protein
> 51  LJ-14:Protein-Protein                52  Coul-SR:Protein-POPC
> 53  LJ-SR:Protein-POPC                54  Coul-14:Protein-POPC
> 55  LJ-14:Protein-POPC                 56  Coul-SR:Protein-SOL
> ...etc
>

There are no "LR" terms unless you use a twin-range cutoff scheme 
(http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Gromacs_Utilities/g_energy).  The PME mesh 
term is written to the Coul-recip term.  Decomposing it is not trivial.

-Justin

>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu
> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 1/15/14, 11:38 AM, rajat desikan wrote:
>
>         Hi Justin,
>
>         I used the following commands:
>
>         mdrun_mpi -s md_6_50ns.tpr -rerun md_6_50ns.gro
>         gmxdump_mpi -e ener.edr > ener_readme
>
>         And in the dump of the ener_readme file, I have the following terms:
>
>         Coul-SR:Protein-Protein  -6.62324e+05
>         LJ-SR:Protein-Protein  -5.64854e+04
>         Coul-14:Protein-Protein   4.04345e+05
>         LJ-14:Protein-Protein   3.29438e+04
>
>         Coul-SR:Protein-POPC  -1.97403e+03
>         LJ-SR:Protein-POPC  -4.64531e+03
>         Coul-14:Protein-POPC   0.00000e+00
>         LJ-14:Protein-POPC   0.00000e+00
>
>         ...etc
>
>         There is neither a Coul-recip nor a Coul-LR term. So, I was wondering
>         about it.
>         The Coul-recip is the reciprocal space term in a Ewald summation
>         calculation,
>         right? I want the total potential energy of the protein. How would I go
>         about that?
>
>
>     I won't go into why "the total potential energy of the protein" is complete
>     junk, because I explained all that last week.
>
>     I don't know what to expect from gmxdump, but you should probably be using
>     g_energy instead.
>
>
>     -Justin
>
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>     Postdoctoral Fellow
>
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>
>
> --
> Rajat Desikan (Ph.D Scholar)
> Prof. K. Ganapathy Ayappa's Lab (no 13),
> Dept. of Chemical Engineering,
> Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

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Justin A. Lemkul, Ph.D.
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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy
Health Sciences Facility II, Room 601
University of Maryland, Baltimore
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Baltimore, MD 21201

jalemkul at outerbanks.umaryland.edu | (410) 706-7441

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