[gmx-users] Temperature variation of CHARMM force field

[Justin Lemkul]

On 7/3/15 2:09 AM, soumadwip ghosh wrote:
> Dear Justin and Mark,
>                                I have written a  tentative reply to the
> reviewer
> where I have mentioned the works ( DPPC membrane, protein unfolding
> and so on) where different objectives have been met with upon varying
> concentrations and it seems that the force fields just do fine. The
> papers I have cited does not contain any force field validation or
> modification by the authors while the temperature under study ranges
> from 270K to 400K. I have made a comment that a delta T = 30K is
> probably a very small temperature difference and the force field
> parameters are unlikely to get affected. In order to proove that
> reasonably good ensambles are reproduced at my simulation temperatures
> do you think I should report some of the parameters as Mark suggested
> and show that they are indeed converged in these temperatures. What I
> have in mind is I can show the density of the system after the NPT run
> since I know these values are close to each other within the given
> error bar. I used simulated annealing method for slowly
> heating/cooling the system and hence stepwise attenuation of the
> desired temperature was never a problem. Do you think if I provide
> snapshots of my density profile it will be a valid point in connection
> with the comment from the reviewer? If this is the case, is it the
> npt.edr or the md.edr file where I should look for the density? Any
> opinion regarding this would be of great help.
>

Density doesn't prove much, and it actually *should* vary as a function of 
temperature, inasmuch as the water model can actually respond to temperature.

Mark's suggestion for ion hydration free energy is a good one, as would RDFs of 
water around relevant functional groups to show that the hydration structure is 
not significantly perturbed.  Interaction energies might also be illustrative.

-Justin

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