From: Ajasja Ljubetič (ajasja.ljubetic_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 18 2011 - 07:17:54 CST
Dear Jrme and Chris,
In general I think that this templating system I
linked<http://wiki.tcl.tk/18455> to
could be used directly from the NAMD conf file. It would take the input
template and output a substituted conf file. I think something like this
could be implemented in pure TCL
#NAMD.conf
colvarsConfig [substify template.name out.name]
This would then create a filled out template out.name and return the correct
file name.
All my "problems" are basically just minor inconveniences, result from the
fact that I'm spoiled by NAMD's TCL syntax.
Here are some concrete examples:
0) I use TCL variables extensivaly in NAMD conf files here's an example:
#NAMD.conf
set strucname $env(STRUCTNAME)
structure $strucname.psf
coordinates $strucname.pdb
..
#set length $env(LENGTH_NS) ;#ns
set timestep 1 ;#femtosecond
..
#set numsteps [expr round(($length * 1000000)/ $timestep)]
1) Lets say I would like to change the number of samples for each bin. But
then I have to edit the number of steps to run in the NAMD conf file as well
(and I always kept forgetting this). Using TCl I could just do:
#NAMD.conf
set fullsamples 500
set numbins 10 ;#
..
set numsteps [expr $fullsamples*($numbins+1)]
run $numsteps
#colvars.in
colvar {
name chi1
width [expr 360/$numbins]
lowerboundary -180
upperboundary 180
...
}
abf {
colvars chi1
fullSamples $fullsamples
}
2) Let's say I have 5 colvars and I would like to run the simulations on the
pairs of colvars. Using TCl I could have just one pair of configurations
files instead of 10 pairs.
#namd.conf
set colvar1 chi1
set colvar2 chi2
#colvar.in
if {[string compare "chi1" $colvar1 ] || [string compare "chi1" $colvar2 ] }
{
.define chi1..
}
if {[string compare "chi2" $colvar1 ] || [string compare "chi2" $colvar2] }
{
.define chi2..
}
..
abf {
colvars $colvar1 $colvar2
fullSamples $fullsamples
}
3) Let's say I have some similar systems (a protein labeled at different
positions). Using enviorment variables I could use the same pair of conf
files and pass the different atom IDs like this:
#colvar.in
dihedral {
group1 { $env(ATOM1) }
group2 { $env(ATOM2)}
group3 { $env(ATOM3)}
group4 { $env(ATOM4)}
}
Best regards,
Ajasja
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