From: Jerome Henin (jhenin_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 10 2009 - 15:03:52 CDT
Hi Bin,
Yes, the colvars module can be used for that in NAMD 2.7b1. The
reference position could be specified using a dummy atom group, see
the dummyAtom keyword here:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/2.7b1/ug/node48.html#SECTION000122300000000000000
As a side note, though: the fact that lots of people want to do it
doesn't mean it's a good idea - in most cases anyway.
Cheers,
Jerome
2009/10/10 BIN ZHANG <zhngbn_at_gmail.com>:
> Hi, All:
>
> Browsing through the mailing list, I saw quite a few people interested in
> restraining the center of mass (COM) of a group of atoms during their
> simulation. However, to my understanding, NAMD does not have an elegant way
> to do this (correct?). Though tclforces script could do the job, it would be
> a pain while the number of atoms is big.
>
> So my question is why does NAMD not offering this ability? It cannot be a
> coding issue. Actually, I think it's rather trivial to implement this, given
> that it already has SMD implemented. It should be basically the same as SMD,
> except here we have zero velocity, and also the moving direction is updated
> on the fly as r - r0.
>
> Am I missing something here? Is NAMD 2.7b1 already able to do this? If not,
> I would like to try to do it myself.
>
> Thanks for any comments.
>
> Best,
> Bin
>
>
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