Re: How to do FEP simulations to calculate the absolute free energy of solvation?

From: Jérôme Hénin (jerome.henin_at_uhp-nancy.fr)
Date: Sat Nov 15 2003 - 04:27:35 CST

Hi,

In case you didn't know, there is a tutorial for alchemeical FEP available at
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/tutorial/AlchemicalFEP.pdf

Anyway, the setup may be a little complex in the beginning. What do you want
to compute exactly ? I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "absolute
free energy of a molecule". If you mean the free energy of creation of the
molecule in vacuum, it is likely to be force-field dependent and not to have
much physical meaning.

Jerome

> Dear namd users,
>
> Recently I wanna to do some research on the absolute free energy of some
> small organic molecules using the FEP in NAMD. But I get in the trouble in
> how to begin it.
>
> From the manual I know NAMD using dual topologies to do FEP. So one must
> define the dual topologies in the PDB file. But I don't know how to define
> the PDB file. Does anyone have any experience to do it. Could you send me a
> example of the files you use to do simulations.
>
> For a example, I want to do the calculations on CH4. How to define to files
> used to do simulation?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
> Sincerely yours
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