[gmx-users] Free Energy calculation

[Justin Lemkul]

On 11/13/14 4:09 AM, RINU KHATTRI wrote:
> hello gromacs users i am working on protein ligand complex with popc
> membrane i want to calculate the free energy of protein and ligand i
> have to follow which tutorial (methane in  water) but my protein is
> membrane protein i am also running md simulation (70 ns)  i am new in
> free energy calculation from where i have to start after the
> production md or  i can start from the original pdb file

The "free energy of protein and ligand" is a rather ill-defined quantity.  Are 
you trying to calculate binding free energy?  If so, there's a huge amount of 
literature on this topic.  It comes down to simply doing a thermodynamic cycle 
of the ligand in water and in the binding site.  Restraints might be needed to 
keep the ligand bound while being decoupled, but again there's tons of papers on 
this topic.

-Justin

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