From: Jerome Henin (jhenin_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 30 2009 - 04:44:58 CDT
Hi David,
Giovanni's advice will work with ABF from NAMD 2.6. If you use the
colvars module in NAMD 2.7, the simplest way to integrate is to
concatenate the gradient files (*.grad) and integrate the complete
data set numerically.
Jerome
2009/9/30 Giovanni Bellesia <gbellesia_at_chem.ucsb.edu>:
> I forgot,
> you also have to modify the values of xiMin and xiMax to "cover" the whole
> range of your "order parameter"
>
> Hi,
>
> Hopefully someone can point what I’m missing or the mistake I’m making. I’m
> using ABF to calculate the free energy of a steroid moving from the center
> of a lipid bilayer into bulk water over a range of 28 angstroms. I’ve broken
> the simulation down into three windows of approximately 10 angstroms over 2
> ns, and they’ve all successfully completed. The sampling could definitely be
> improved but it’s enough for some comparison’s I’m looking at. Here’s the
> problem when I plot A(xi) vs Xi for each of these windows, they don’t match
> up. In the overlaps between windows the plots look the same but they’re
> offset on the y-axis in one case by 3 kcal/mol, and in the other by 15
> kcal/mol. Am I missing something here, shouldn’t the plots match up ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -david
>
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