Specific colvar component needed.

From: Germán Andrés Miño (germino_at_u.uchile.cl)
Date: Mon May 07 2012 - 10:55:14 CDT

Hi namd2.8 users.

I would like to do and protein unfolding ABF calculation in an water
box with the following restrictions:

CA atom of the C-terminal fixed in space.
CA atom of the N-terminal moving along the (0,0,Z) axis.

I have tried with distanceZ (see below) component but my system drift
away from the Z axis.

I need to minimize the size of the water box (actually a rectangle)
because limitations in numbers of processors and computational time
available.

The colvar I am using now is:

colvarsTrajFrequency 2000
colvarsRestartFrequency 20000

colvar {
   name d

   width 0.1

   lowerboundary 50.36
   upperboundary 380.00

   lowerwallconstant 10.0
   upperwallconstant 10.0

   distanceZ {
      main { atomNumbers 1921
 }
      ref {
atomNumbers 959
 }
      axis (0.0, 0.0, 1.0)

  }
}

abf {
   colvars d
   fullSamples 500
   hideJacobian
}

Any suggestion is truly valuated.
Thanks in advance.

German Miño Galaz.
germino_at_u.uchile.cl
Postdoctoral Fellow of Grupo de Namomateriales (www.gnm.cl)
Departamento de Fisica
Universidad de Chile.
Palmeras 3425, Nunoa.
Santiago Chile
Tel: 0056-2-978-7439
Fax: 0056-2-2712973

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