[gmx-users] angle/distance/position restraints in alchemical free energy calculation

[Wes Barnett]

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 2:00 AM, minky son <minky0710 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear gmx user,
> I’m studying about alchemical free energy calculation.
> I have been read some articles about restraints during free energy
> calculation, they referred the procedure in the article (
> http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jp0217839).
> I tried to search mailing list, but still I couldn’t understand.
>

I don't see any indication in that article of the researchers using
GROMACS. It looks like they are using CHARMM.


> The manual said “restraint-lambdas” option only handle dihedral
> restraints, and the pull code restraints
> How to apply angle/distance/position restraints with respect to lambda?
>

I don't believe those other restraints can be coupled for free energy
changes in GROMACS at this time.

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James "Wes" Barnett
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Department of Chemical Engineering
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Columbia University
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