From: Giacomo Fiorin (giacomo.fiorin_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2019 - 07:56:25 CDT
Hello José, to my knowledge most simulations of TM proteins with NAMD have
been done with a constant voltage difference across the unit cell and a
single-bilayer setup.
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/2.13/ug/node40.html
Occasionally, the electric field may vary over the unit cell by using
grifForces instead of eField, to mimic the differences in dielectric
screening in the different compartments.
I'm not sure if there is an easy way to implement what you describe. The
"move" command:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/2.13/ug/node9.html#SECTION00052200000000000000
has the restriction that it can only "teleport" an atom not farther than
one patch/domain away. Unless you're running at much fewer processors than
optimal, each membrane would be more than one patch thick for sure.
Otherwise, simulations with exchanges of topology are fairly routine in
NAMD and controlled by Tcl scripting commands (as done for example in
constant pH simulations). One could have an array of topologies with
individual pairs of ions swapped, and it'd be just the number of
combinations to make this step tedious (need a folder full of hundreds of
PSF files).
Giacomo
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:12 AM Villalain Boullon, Jose <jvillalain_at_umh.es>
wrote:
> Dear all,
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> I have seen several papers using computational electrophysiology using
> Gromacs,
> http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/2019/reference-manual/special/comp-electrophys.html
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__manual.gromacs.org_documentation_2019_reference-2Dmanual_special_comp-2Delectrophys.html&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=jUfnSyKkfkyVRBIUzlG1GSGGZAZGcznwr8YliSSCjPc&m=_OxnaRgXcy_lWi1zakgQyW2zYpxS1imloedvqgf7_Mc&s=Rp4qGjZ6xzu5sk63A1pig8gymqXq48kg1p1rt3fydVc&e=>.
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> Do you know if such a methodology exist for NAMD ?. Or any reference in
> order to try to do it using NAMD?.
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> Thanks a lot !!.
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> José
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> *IDiBE,*
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> *Universidad "Miguel Hernández"*
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> *Alicante, Spain*
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-- Giacomo Fiorin Associate Professor of Research, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA Research collaborator, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD http://goo.gl/Q3TBQU https://github.com/giacomofiorin
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