[gmx-users] Dihedral drivers and 2D Energy Plot in gromacs

Devashish_Das dasdevashishdas at gmail.com
Wed Mar 22 00:02:11 CET 2017


Thanks for the solution.

So, Is it not possible to do 2D-energy plot of AIB-dipeptide with a water
box? or only the use of constant box is the problem?

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On 3/20/17 2:50 AM, Devashish_Das wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>> The problem now I am facing is, the total energy ( 15960125.0 kJ/mol for
>> 180-180
>> degree) and dihderal restraint (Its coming like 0.594114 for 180-180
>> degree).
>> What I am currently trying is:
>>
>> 1. Take the AIB dipeptide and do minimization in vacuum to get the nearly
>> angle
>> of Phi-Psi desired (I am doing it for every 10 degree)
>> 2. Add water box manually to the minimized AIB.gro file (For keeping the
>> number
>> of water molecule exactly same?)
>> 3. Minimize the system again with restraints.
>> 4. remove the restraints from the .top file and use a normal .mdp file for
>> generating .tpr file
>> 5. Use this tpr and minimized gro file with water to do mdrun -rerun
>> 6. Use gmx energy to calculate "Total Energy" from the rerun.edr and
>> "Dihedral
>> Restraint" from AIB_water_minimized.edr file
>> 7. Plot the final Energy (= (Total Energy - Dihedral Restraint Energy) -
>> minimum
>> of the list)
>>
>> Am I doing this right?
>>
>>
> No, you shouldn't be involving water at all, and the manual overlay of the
> same water box on every system is undoubtedly going to cause atomic overlap
> that leads to the bizarre energies.
>
> What you care most about is the relative energetics in vacuum; balancing
> intermolecular interactions is a totally separate issue.
>
> -Justin
>
>
>> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 7:16
>> PM, <gromacs.org_gmx-users-request at maillist.sys.kth.se
>> <mailto:gromacs.org_gmx-users-request at maillist.sys.kth.se>> wrote:
>>
>>     Message: 4
>>     Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:45:21 -0400
>>     From: Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>>
>>     To: gmx-users at gromacs.org <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org>
>>     Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Dihedral drivers and 2D Energy Plot in
>>             gromacs
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>>     <mailto:85061dd9-acaa-0b50-9eaf-4efb5081de64 at vt.edu>>
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>>     On 3/17/17 1:40 AM, Devashish_Das wrote:
>>     > Hello All,
>>     >
>>     > Presently we are working in generating dihedral drivers for AIB
>> dipeptide
>>     > in gromacs. We would like to create energy contour maps for
>> different phi,
>>     > psi angle for AIB in gromacs. We are unable to create the correct
>> energy
>>     > map vs phi/psi angle of AIB dipeptide during energy minimization
>> step in
>>     > Gromacs.
>>     >
>>     > Our MDP:
>>     > #============================================================
>>     > ; Parameters describing what to do, when to stop and what to save
>>     > integrator = cg
>>     > emtol = 1.0
>>     > emstep            = 0.01
>>     > nsteps = 50000
>>     > #============================================================
>>     >
>>     > We retraining the dihedral angles using the following method:
>>     > http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Dihedral_Restraints
>>     <http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Dihedral_Restraints>
>> (*Is this
>>     > the correct way to do this?*)
>>     >
>>     > As clarified Dr Justin Lemkul in a private mail, we need to do the
>>     > following:
>>     >
>>     > * The 2-D energy surface requires several steps.  You need to
>>     > assign dihedral restraints in the topology and relevant .mdp
>> options, and
>>     > minimize the structures with those restrained phi/psi pairs.  You
>> then need
>>     > to deactivate the restraints and use mdrun -rerun to recompute the
>> energy
>>     > of the minimized conformation to eliminate the contribution from the
>>     > restraint potential
>>     > (http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Single-Point_Energy
>>     <http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Single-Point_Energy>
>>     > <http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Single-Point_Energy
>>     <http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Single-Point_Energy>>).
>> Then
>>     > you need to offset the surface to the global minimum (done
>> completely
>>     > outside GROMACS)*
>>     >
>>     > But we are having following trouble:
>>     >
>>     > a)  "*You then need to deactivate the restraints and use mdrun
>> -rerun to
>>     > recompute the energy of the minimized conformation to eliminate the
>>     > contribution from the restraint potential*". How to do this? Which
>> .mdp
>>     > file to be used for *mdrun -rerun*?
>>     >
>>
>>     Anything that's not energy minimization.  Your topology also should
>> either not
>>     include the dihedral restraint, or you should extract its
>> contribution from the
>>     .edr file and subtract it from the total energy of the system.
>>
>>     > b)  "Then you need to offset the surface to the global minimum (done
>>     > completely outside GROMACS)". Can you provide the required tool
>> name?
>>     >
>>
>>     There isn't one.  This is a trivial scripting exercise.  You assemble
>> the 2-D
>>     matrix of energy values, find the lowest energy, and apply it as a
>> global offset
>>     to all values.
>>
>>     -Justin
>>
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>>     ==================================================
>>
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>>
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>>     School of Pharmacy
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>>
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>>
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>>
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Devashish Das


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