Re: Free energy of conformational change

From: Chris Harrison (char_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 25 2009 - 17:51:17 CDT

Lixia,

Do you need an alchemical change that "causes" a conformational change, or just a conformational change evaluated? If just the free energy of a conformational change (and not the free energy of alchemical change) needs to be calculated I would suggest strongly that you download the new beta version of namd (namd2.7b1) and use either Adaptive Biasing Force or Metadynamics (both described in the new manual under the "Collective variables" section) to calculate the free energy change of your system. If there is also an alchemical change to be calculated, we can offer suggestions how you might best proceed, but your email sounds like you are interested in the conformational free energy change.

C.

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Lixia Jin Day <ljin12_at_asu.edu> writes:
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:21:19 -0700
> From: Lixia Jin Day <ljin12_at_asu.edu>
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> Subject: namd-l: Free energy of conformational change
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> In the FEP section of the user's guide, it says:" The system is efficient if
> only a few coordinates, either of individual atoms or centers of mass of
> groups of atoms, are needed."
> 
> Here I have two conformations of a protein (about 300aa), can I calculate
> the free energy changes during the transition from one conformation to
> another?
> Thanks!
> 
> Lixia

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