From: Faramarz Joodaki (fjoodaki_at_my.uri.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2018 - 09:37:25 CST
Hi Fiorin,
Thank you for your response! Actually, I had seen this link but I could not
figure it out my problem on the basis of this link.
Best Regards,
Faramarz
On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 11:37 PM Giacomo Fiorin <giacomo.fiorin_at_gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello Faramarz, the pertinent options are described here:
>
> https://colvars.github.io/colvars-refman-namd/colvars-refman-namd.html#colvar|scriptedFunction
>
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 1:00 PM Faramarz Joodaki <fjoodaki_at_my.uri.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> According to Haichuan's guidance, I am trying to do some runtime
>> calculations over a MD simulation by using Colvars. I would like to pass
>> two parameters of Colvars to a function in the NAMD configuration file to
>> apply my calculation on them. For example, the function in the NAMD
>> configuration file can be:
>>
>> namespace eval funca { }
>> proc calc_funca {arg1 arg2} {...}
>>
>> - arg1 can be Cartesian coordinate
>> - arg2 can be a distance
>>
>> My question is how can I define these two variables in colvars at the
>> same time and pass them to a function in the NAMD configuration file?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Faramarz
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:50 PM Faramarz Joodaki <fjoodaki_at_my.uri.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Haochuan,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your guidance!
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Faramarz
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 8:33 PM <yjcoshc_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Faramarz,
>>>>
>>>> Please copy the email to the NAMD mailing list. This may give hints for
>>>> other people who have the same question.
>>>>
>>>> As for your question, I am not very sure whether following code works:
>>>>
>>>> proc calc_funca {args} {
>>>>
>>>> set cartesian [lindex $args 0]
>>>>
>>>> set distance [lindex $args 1]
>>>>
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> It may require some trying and debugging, but basically you can use
>>>> puts to output the args to stdout and see the format of arguments from NAMD
>>>> log.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Haochuan Chen
>>>>
>>>> 在 2018年12月15日 09:05, Faramarz Joodaki 写道:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Haochuan,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again for your help! I have another question. I would be so
>>>> grateful if you could guide me with this matter. How can I pass two or more
>>>> parameters from colvars to the function in NAMD configuration file. For
>>>> example:
>>>>
>>>> namespace eval funca { }
>>>> proc calc_funca {arg1 arg2} {...}
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - arg1 can be cartesian coordinate
>>>> - arg2 can be a distance
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Faramarz
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 1:28 PM Faramarz Joodaki <fjoodaki_at_my.uri.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear Haochuan,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much for your complete explanation! So it seems that I
>>>>> need to use TCL syntax for this kind of scripting.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>> Faramarz
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 6:55 AM <yjcoshc_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Faramarz,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the NAMD configuration you can enable colvars and source this TCL
>>>>>> script:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> namespace eval funca { }
>>>>>> proc calc_funca {args} {
>>>>>> puts $args
>>>>>> set x0 [lindex [lindex $args 0] 0]
>>>>>> set y0 [lindex [lindex $args 0] 1]
>>>>>> set z0 [lindex [lindex $args 0] 2]
>>>>>> return [expr $x0 + $y0 + $z0]
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the colvars file:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> colvar {
>>>>>> name a
>>>>>> scriptedFunction funca
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cartesian {
>>>>>> atoms {atomNumbers {5}}
>>>>>> }
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then the x, y and z coordinates of the atom 5 will be added up and
>>>>>> outputted to the colvars trajectory file. A more comprehensive example is
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> https://github.com/Colvars/colvars/blob/master/colvartools/pathCV.tcl
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Haochuan Chen
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 在 2018年12月08日 10:56, Faramarz Joodaki 写道:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Haochuan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you again for your great guidance! Since I am new in colvars
>>>>>> and scriptedFunction. I would be so grateful if you could give me an
>>>>>> example about this kind of scripting. For example, if we assume x, y, and z
>>>>>> are atom coordinates, how can we write x+y+z code in this kind of scripting?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>> Faramarz
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 8:51 PM Faramarz Joodaki <fjoodaki_at_my.uri.edu>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear Haochuan,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you for your guidance! I will try your method and if I have
>>>>>>> any questions, I will ask you about that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>>> Faramarz
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > On Dec 5, 2018, at 8:45 PM, yjcoshc <yjcoshc_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Haochuan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>
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> Contractor, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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