[gmx-users] solvation free energy

Justin Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Fri Jul 17 13:55:24 CEST 2015



On 7/17/15 7:44 AM, Daniele Veclani wrote:
> OK! I got it.
>
> I have to put:
> couple-intramol = yes
>
> but I have to define couple-lambda 0 and couple-lamba-1?
>

Yes, you have to tell mdrun what you're transforming.

> how do I turn off the 1-4 pair interaction?
>

That requires explicit use of [pairs_nb], as I recall.  There was a bug fix for 
that recently, so make sure you're using version 5.0.5.

-Justin

>
> 2015-07-17 13:32 GMT+02:00 Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu>:
>
>>
>>
>> On 7/17/15 6:34 AM, Daniele Veclani wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>> "couple-intramol = no" does not subject intramolecular interactions to
>> lambda coupling.  But doing this in vacuo is pointless, because then by
>> definition, nothing changes.
>>
>> -Justin
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se [
>>>> gromacs.org_gmx-users-bounces at maillist.sys.kth.se] on behalf of Daniele
>>>> Veclani [danieleveclani at gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: 17 July 2015 08:57
>>>> To: gmx-users at gromacs.org
>>>> 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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University of Maryland, Baltimore
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