From: JC Gumbart (gumbart_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2010 - 07:36:13 CDT
Please also note that the latest version of the tutorial can be found here:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/#freeenergymethods
From: owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] On Behalf
Of Chris Harrison
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 7:23 AM
To: Christian Jorgensen
Cc: namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: namd-l: Alchemical FEP tutorial files
Dear Christian,
The Alchemical FEP tutorial is considered an advanced level tutorial and as
such users compose their own namd config files using the files in the
vanilla directory as guides/examples.
Best,
Chris
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Christian Jorgensen
<christian.jorgensen_at_merton.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to systematically follow the latest version Alchemical FEP
tutorial on http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~char/tutorials/FEP/tutorial-FEP.pdf
currently in section 1.2 Ethane-to-ethane "zero-sum" transformation: Running
the free energy calculation.
It reads "The traditional MD section of the NAMD configuration file could be
written for an MD run a constant temperature of 300 K and pressure of 1 bar,
using the particle-mesh Ewald (PMD) electrostatics. Set the rigidBonds
option to all and choose a time step of 2fs ..... or use the provided
restart files from an equilibration run"
Question 1: Does this mean I should build my own configuration file or do I
use the ones located in the vanilla directory?
./FEP-files/vanilla/alchemy.conf
./FEP-files/vanilla/equilibrate.conf
./FEP-files/vanilla/minimize.conf
Question 2: Why does the Vanilla directory exist independently of the
respective directories of the individual sections of the tutorial, I.e. why
are these files not placed in the ./FEP-files/01.ethane-ethane/ directory?
Later on it reads: "Run the forward and backward simulations using, e.g.,
the commands
namd2 forward-noshift.namd > forward-noshift.log
namd2 backward-noshift.namd > backward-noshift.log"
Question 3: Where are the files forward-noshift.namd and
backward-noshift.namd? Am I supposed to write these mylself?
Thank you very much in advance,
Christian Jorgensen,
Merton College, Oxford / PTCL
-- Chris Harrison, Ph.D. Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 char_at_ks.uiuc.edu Voice: 217-244-1733 http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~char Fax: 217-244-6078
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