[gmx-users] About free enrgy calculation

[Justin Lemkul]

On 6/1/14, 3:30 AM, vidhya sankar wrote:
> Thank you for your previous reply
>
> Sorry  In previous Mail i wrongly  stated that decoupling CNT ( as you stated  it is big  Molecule )
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> To do free energy calculation based on on your tutorial 6( methane/water)
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> I  want to decouple  Water  from CNT which is Wrapped by  assembly of Cyclic peptide  (the stability of assembly is mainly due to Vandewall's interaction between CNT and cyclic peptide)
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Decoupling water from the system will likely be highly unstable and I'm not sure 
what use the value is, if the simulations even run.

> When  I  Fix  following  parameter for My system    in mdp files
> free_energy              = yes
> init-lambda         = 0.00
> delta_lambda             = 0.00
> sc-alpha                 = 1
> sc-power                 = 2.0

The values of sc-alpha and sc-power are unusual.  I stick by my recommendation 
to use the same settings as in my tutorial.

> sc-sigma                 = 0.3
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> It show follwin Notes How to Avoid this?
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> NOTE 1 [file /usr/local/gromacs4.6.11single/bin/MDP/em_steep_0.mdp]:
>    With PME there is a minor soft core effect present at the cut-off,
>    proportional to (LJsigma/rcoulomb)^6. This could have a minor effect on
>    energy conservation, but usually other effects dominate. With a common
>    sigma value of 0.34 nm the fraction of the particle-particle potential at
>    the cut-off at lambda=0.5 is around 2.4e-04, while ewald-rtol is 1.0e-05.
>
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> May i extend your tutorial parameter  to my system ? because you also Decouple water from Metahne . Or is ther is Any Thump rule
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No, I don't decouple water from methane, I do the opposite.  The water 
interactions remain the same at all lambda values.  The methane molecule is 
decoupled to calculate the free energy of hydration.  I don't get a clear sense 
of what you're even trying to calculate in your system.

-Justin

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