From: Marcos Sotomayor (sotomayo_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 13 2007 - 11:53:03 CDT
(1) Have a look at
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/mailing_list/namd-l/4566.html
As with respect to CMAP or not CMAP, your log file indicates that you are
using CMAP (1047 CROSSTERMS), so you are fine with that. Sorry about the
confusion (and BTW, its not so good to send big files to everyone on the
list).
As with respect to CHARMM27, the charm27 files included in c31 should
include CMAP (but those of previous versions do not, that's why I said
that CHARMM27 does not include CMAP, sorry if that caused panic and
confusion).
I run out of options about how to diagnose what is happening with your
simulation.
Marcos
On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Ilya Chorny wrote:
> Marcos,
>
> Can you clarify (1) for me. What do you mean by applying patches?
>
> I do align my proteins when calculating the RMSD but even after the
> alignment the RMSD looks like the diffusion equation Sqrt(6DT).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ilya
>
>
> Thanks
>
> On 10/13/07, Marcos Sotomayor <sotomayo_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Just to clear up the confusion (I might be wrong though)
>>
>> -The protein forcfield is the CHARM22 forcefield. It has
>> not changed at all in the version 27 or 31 of CHARMM, except that in
>> CHARMM31
>> they provided the CMAP corrections, which you should apply on top of the
>> CHARM22 force-field.
>>
>> -The difference between CHARM22 and CHARM27 is in the lipid
>> parameters, which are not affected by CMAP.
>>
>> -So, just to be sure that you are using the parameter and topology
>> files provided in the version 31 (or >31) of CHARMM (the software) and
>> that your psf file does include the CMAP terms and that NAMD is actually
>> using the CMAP correction: check CROSSTERMS in the log file (you should
>> have more than 6 under STRUCTURE SUMMARY).
>>
>> I hope I did not confuse people even more....
>>
>> Two more comments for Ilya: (1) if you are applying patches during psf
>> file generation (outside the generate statement), be sure to use the
>> regenerate angle dihedrals command [This is important when using
>> topology files from c31b1 and c32b1] (2) be sure to align your protein
>> before computing RMSDs.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marcos
>>
>> On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, L. Michel Espinoza-Fonseca wrote:
>>
>>>>> My understanding from the previous email is that 27 has the CMAP
>> corrections
>>>>> as well.
>>>>
>>>> 22 and 27 do not include CMAP, which was released with 31. However, the
>>>> labeling is quite confusing and I see that you seem to be using the
>> right
>>>> parameter file (which is labeled 27 and includes CMAP!?). Check the
>> number
>>>> of CROSSTERMS in your log file (STRUCTURE SUMMARY section) to be sure
>>>> that you are using CMAP.
>>>
>>> Just a single comment:
>>>
>>> CHARMM 27 *does* include the CMAP correction. When using this version
>>> of the ff, your NAMD log file shows that you have "x" number of
>>> crossterms. I've been using the CHARMM 27 ff for the stability of
>>> helices and you can indeed see the difference in terms of stability.
>>> In fact, the paper by Buck et al. mentions such correction as
>>> "C22/CMAP".
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "reinitvels" must not be working because I do not assign a
>> temperature, thus
>>>>> it would not know what distribution to select from. I have since
>> removed
>>>>> this option. Not even sure how it got into my script.
>>>>
>>>> Indeed, you are not using the "temperature" command, but your posted
>>>> configuration files has a "set temperature 310" command and
>>>> a "reinitvels" command (the command does work and you were overriding
>>>> velocities in that particular case; note the subtle difference between
>>>> the TCL variable temperature and the NAMD command temperature).
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Temperature averages out to 310K. The PME grid is 128x128x128.
>>>>
>>>> What is the size of the simulation box?? Is there enough space between
>>>> periodic images?
>>>>
>>>>> 1.4 A resolution.
>>>>
>>>> Is the whole protein or a particular zone getting deformed? you may
>>>> want to compute RMSD for some zones of the protein or compute RMSD per
>>>> residue and check what part of the protein is behaving badly. By the
>>>> way, when you said that your RMSD was going up, how bad is it? 2, 3, 6
>> A?
>>>> I would also suggest to look at protonation states carefully (as
>> suggested
>>>> by Richard).
>>>>
>>>>> Hope that helps,
>>>>>> Marcos
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Ilya Chorny Ph.D.
>
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