Re: AW: smd simulation

From: Jacqueline Schmidt (jacqueline_schmidt_1983_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2013 - 01:12:36 CST

Dear Norman, Thanks a lot for your answer. As you suggested, I am now trying to fix the lower part of my surface.  I have a general question, maybe a bit primitive. If I have the surface fixed (partly or all of it), then why should I add the same force (but in the opposite direction) as added to the peptide  to the surface? Is this because of conservation of energy?  Thanks again for your help jackie ________________________________ From: Norman Geist <norman.geist_at_uni-greifswald.de> To: 'Jacqueline Schmidt' <jacqueline_schmidt_1983_at_yahoo.com> Cc: Namd Mailing List <namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 1:48 AM Subject: AW: namd-l: smd simulation Hi Jaqueline,   we also work with surfaces. If your surface has multiple layers, it’s enough maybe to just fix one of them, maybe the one that is the most far away from the peptide. Possibly fixing some single atoms within the surface would also do the job. Not to fix anything would require a pulling force of the surface in the opposite direction to the same m/s value. As you say you got constant velocity, you just need to get a pulling force for the surface which equals the same speed for the surface, or? Additionally, why not fix one atom of the peptide, and just pull the surface?   Norman Geist.   Von:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-namd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] Im Auftrag von Jacqueline Schmidt Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2013 15:28 An: namd Betreff: namd-l: smd simulation   Dear NAMD users, I am trying to perform a smd md on a peptide which is adsorbed to a mineral surface. For this purpose I added a constant velocity to the peptide atoms trough tcl interface. To make the surface not moving upwards I added a smd velocity equal to zero with a very large arbitrary force constant (I don't want to fix the surface coordinates; I want the atoms in the surface remain flexible but at the same time not move upwards with the peptide). However, despite the very large force constant for the surface, it is still moving upward in some occasions along with the peptide. Does anyone has experience on these type of simulations? I appreciate any comments (my question was how to prevent surface from moving upward without fixing its coordinates)   Thanks, jackie   ************Here is the conf file , smd section************   # SMD settings #this is applied on the surface if {1} { SMD                 on SMDFile             smd_ref.pdb SMDk                10000 SMDVel              0.000 SMDDir              1  1  1 SMDOutputFreq       100 }   # Tcl interface #this is applied on the peptide if {1} { tclForces           on tclForcesScript     smd.tcl }   ********Here is the tcl script************************** #define a group including the peptide atoms set grp2 {} for {set j 1 } { $j <=90 } {incr j } { lappend grp2 $j } set a2 [addgroup $grp2] # set the output frequency, initialize the time counter set Tclfreq 10 set t 0 # force constant (kcal/mol/A^2) set k 20 # pulling velocity (A/timestep) set v 0.0000025  set outfilename rklpda_smd_tcl.out open $outfilename w set r20z 31 proc calcforces {} {     global Tclfreq t k v a2 r20z  outfilename   loadcoords coordinate   set r2 $coordinate($a2)   set r2x [lindex $r2 0]   set r2y [lindex $r2 1]   set r2z [lindex $r2 2]     if { $t == 0 } {      set r20z $r2z   }   set f2x 0   set f2y 0   set f2z [expr $k*($v*$t-$r2z+$r20z)]   lappend f2 $f2x $f2y $f2z     addforce $a2 $f2      set foo [expr $t % $Tclfreq]   if { $foo == 0 } {       set outfile [open $outfilename a]            # calc time in ps       set time [expr $t]       puts $outfile "$time $r2z $f2z"        close $outfile   }    incr t   return }

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