From: Lixia Jin Day (ljin12_at_asu.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 25 2009 - 18:04:37 CDT
Chris,
I want to calculate the conformational FE change. It looks that the new
version provides several methods to do it. I will look into it. Thank you
very much for the information.
Best,
Lixia
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Chris Harrison <char_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Lixia,
>
> Do you need an alchemical change that "causes" a conformational change, or
> just a conformational change evaluated? If just the free energy of a
> conformational change (and not the free energy of alchemical change) needs
> to be calculated I would suggest strongly that you download the new beta
> version of namd (namd2.7b1) and use either Adaptive Biasing Force or
> Metadynamics (both described in the new manual under the "Collective
> variables" section) to calculate the free energy change of your system. If
> there is also an alchemical change to be calculated, we can offer
> suggestions how you might best proceed, but your email sounds like you are
> interested in the conformational free energy change.
>
>
> C.
>
>
>
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>
> Lixia Jin Day <ljin12_at_asu.edu> writes:
> > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:21:19 -0700
> > From: Lixia Jin Day <ljin12_at_asu.edu>
> > To: namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> > Subject: namd-l: Free energy of conformational change
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> > In the FEP section of the user's guide, it says:" The system is efficient
> if
> > only a few coordinates, either of individual atoms or centers of mass of
> > groups of atoms, are needed."
> >
> > Here I have two conformations of a protein (about 300aa), can I calculate
> > the free energy changes during the transition from one conformation to
> > another?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Lixia
>
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