[gmx-users] solvation free energy

Daniele Veclani danieleveclani at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 12:34:46 CEST 2015


I read the manual and also some examples of  free energy calculation.

when I do the simulation:
M(vacuo) --> nothing(vacuo)

I leave only intramolecular interactions.

How can I just leave these interactions? I don't find the answer in the
manual.


Best regards
D.V.

2015-07-17 10:10 GMT+02:00 <hannes.loeffler at stfc.ac.uk>:

> I do not know how your top file looks like and what you have done to it.
>
> The setup procedure to create the topolog file would be as for a standard
> MD simulation with M.  You would make sure that the "QUI" label referes to
> the right indexes in your index file and run TI with you preferred
> protocol.  This simplified setup procedure ensures that you do not have to
> modify the topology file in any way esp. not to have to set up an explicit
> B state.
>
> I suggest to read all parts relating to couple-* in the manual.  This is
> scattered over several places in the text.
>
> Cheers,
> Hannes.
>
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> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] solvation free energy
>
> Thank you for your answer.
>
> I read the manual. As I understand it, I should be deleted, from .top
> file, the
> section of non-bonded parameters. It's right?
>
> Of course, after the VdW I'll change the electrostatic transformation.
>
> Best regards
> D.V.
>
> 2015-07-16 16:55 GMT+02:00 Hannes Loeffler <Hannes.Loeffler at stfc.ac.uk>:
>
> > The couple-* parameters take already care of including the non-bonded
> > terms internal to your molecule to correctly describe the transfer of M
> > to vacuum.  That's the point of those parameters so that you would not
> > have to run an additional "correction" in vacuo.  See the discussion in
> > the manual (it's section 5.3 for Gromacs 4.6.x).  You would also need to
> > compute the electrostatic transformation.
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:26:44 +0200
> > Daniele Veclani <danieleveclani at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm trying to calculate the  solvation free energy of a molecule (M).
> > > I have done:
> > > M+water ---> dum+water
> > >
> > > Now I have to do:
> > > M(vacuo) --> dum(vacuo)
> > >
> > > In this case I have a problem, in fact I find a DG = 0.00000 and
> > > within the .xvg file there are only zeros.
> > >
> > > Where is the problem?
> > >
> > > I use gromacs 5.0.4 and my .mdp file (for lambda 00) is:
> > > integrator               = sd
> > > tinit                    = 0
> > > dt                       = 0.002
> > > nsteps                   = 2500000
> > > comm_mode                = angular
> > > nstcomm                  = 100
> > > nstxout                  = 500
> > > nstvout                  = 500
> > > nstfout                  = 0
> > > nstlog                   = 500
> > > nstenergy                = 500
> > > nstxout-compressed       = 0
> > > cutoff-scheme            = group
> > > nstlist                  = 0
> > > ns_type                  = simple
> > > pbc                      = no
> > > rlist                    = 0
> > > coulombtype              = cutoff
> > > rcoulomb                 = 0
> > > epsilon_r                = 1
> > > vdwtype                  = cutoff
> > > rvdw                     = 0
> > > DispCorr                  = no
> > > fourierspacing           = 0.12
> > > pme_order                = 6
> > > ewald_rtol               = 1e-06
> > > epsilon_surface          = 0
> > > tcoupl                   = berendsen
> > > tc_grps                  = system
> > > tau_t                    = 0.1
> > > ref_t                    = 300
> > > Pcoupl                   = no
> > > tau_p                    = 1.0
> > > compressibility          = 4.5e-05
> > > ref_p                    = 1.0
> > > free_energy              = yes
> > > init_lambda_state        = 0
> > > delta_lambda             = 0
> > > calc_lambda_neighbors    = 1
> > > vdw_lambdas              = 0.00 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.70
> > > 0.80 0.90 1.00
> > > coul_lambdas             = 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> > > 0.00 0.00 0.00
> > > bonded_lambdas           = 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> > > 0.00 0.00 0.00
> > > restraint_lambdas        = 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> > > 0.00 0.00 0.00
> > > mass_lambdas             = 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> > > 0.00 0.00 0.00
> > > temperature_lambdas      = 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> > > 0.00 0.00 0.00
> > > sc-alpha                 = 0.5
> > > sc-coul                  = no
> > > sc-power                 = 1.0
> > > sc-sigma                 = 0.3
> > > couple-moltype           = QUI
> > > couple-lambda0           = vdw
> > >
> > > couple-lambda1           = none
> > > couple-intramol          = no
> > > nstdhdl                  = 10
> > > gen_vel                  = no
> > > constraints              = all-bonds  ; we only have C-H bonds here
> > > constraint-algorithm     = lincs
> > > continuation             = no
> > > lincs-order              = 12
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > > Daniele Veclani.
> >
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