Re: Using colvars for biasing potential in Umbrella Sampling

From: Giacomo Fiorin (giacomo.fiorin_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 07 2015 - 10:08:11 CST

Yes, that's the definition of distanceZ.

Giacomo

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:01 AM, begüm alaybeyoğlu <bgmalay_at_gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear NAMD users,
> I'm trying to run umbrella sampling simulations for membrane translocation
> of a peptide. I have already run SMD simulations for this system and im
> getting my conformations from SMD simulations to be used as initial
> conformation in each umbrella window. My problem is that I want to bias the
> z coordinate of the SMD atom, since my pulling direction is z (from
> positive z values to negative, according to my system) and i have chosen z
> coordinate as my reaction coordinate. I know i can use colvars for this,
> but not quite sure how to define it. I'm thinking that I can define
> harmonic restraints on the distance between the membrane core and SMD atom,
> but can it be applied only on the z coordinate? Does "distanceZ" colvar
> definition satisfy this or does it compute the distance (in x, y, z) and
> project on z axis? Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Begüm
>

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