From: Thomas Bishop (bishop_at_latech.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 16 2011 - 14:53:17 CDT
Dear NAMD 2.8b3
I 'm using the generalized born implicit solvent options for some
calculations and need to know more.
Is there a tutorial or howto or a recent publication w/ NAMD using GB
that I can dig into?
The manual is a bit sparse and may contain some errors.
The default GBIS options give a Debye Screening Length of 9.649 when the
ion concentration is 0.1M
The manual says 10A (is this round-off or not?)
For comparison Amber uses a simpler formula than NAMD
(presumably the same for k = 0.316sqrt([salt]) [mol/L] . Her the 10A
value is obvious.
Many of the NAMD defaults appear to match up with Ambers IGB 5 model.
THanks!
I also have some concern about proper specification of dielectric
In GBIS, the protein dielectric (presumably includes nucleic and lipids
or any non-solvent) is typically of order 1 with solvent at 78.5
Apparently the way to get this configuration in NAMD-GB calcs is to set
value of "Dielectric"
and this gets applied to the protein, e.g. as follow:
dielectric 1.0 # interior dielectric
solventdielectric 78.5
Info: DIELECTRIC 1
Info: GBIS SOLVENT DIELECTRIC: 78.5
Info: GBIS PROTEIN DIELECTRIC: 1
Is this the proper way to specify dielectric constants for solvent and
not-solvent in NAMD GBIS?
Thanks in advance for any tips/tricks/pointers.
TOm
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