[gmx-users] adding SR2++ to charm27 force field

[Justin Lemkul]

On 4/16/15 9:30 PM, Ming Tang wrote:
> Hi, Justin
>
> I changed "CL" in my pdb file into "CLA". It can be add ions to equilibrate the charge of the system using the modified charmm27.ff. however, when minimising it, I came across an error like this:
> Command line:
>    mdrun -s em.tpr -deffnm em -v
>
>
> Back Off! I just backed up em.log to ./#em.log.1#
> Reading file em.tpr, VERSION 5.0.4 (single precision)
> Using 1 MPI thread
> Using 8 OpenMP threads
>
> Back Off! I just backed up em.trr to ./#em.trr.1#
>
> Back Off! I just backed up em.edr to ./#em.edr.1#
>
> Low-Memory BFGS Minimizer:
>     Tolerance (Fmax)   =  1.00000e+00
>     Number of steps    =        50000
> Using 10 BFGS correction steps.
>
>     F-max             =          inf on atom 30262
>     F-Norm            =         -nan
>
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> tm at tm-HP-Z420-Workstation:~/bmp2$
>
> I searched the mailing list, and found that you said that there is something catastrophically wrong with the input structure. But, it can be minimised using the original charm27 force field in Gromacs when I consider the ion as MG and CAL.
> Does this mean that there is something wrong with my modified charmm27.ff?
>

Yes, exactly as I said - you're mixing force field parameters with OPLS Sr2+ and 
you get a nonsensical physical model.  Garbage in, garbage out.

You need to derive suitable Sr2+ parameters in a manner consistent with the 
parent force field.  For CHARMM ions, this would involve hydration free 
energies, QM water interactions, assessing coordination geometry, perhaps 
specific interactions with carboxylate and/or phosphate, etc.

-Justin

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