From: Josh Vermaas (vermaas2_at_illinois.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 10 2015 - 09:30:21 CDT
Hi Kevin,
With VMD 1.9.2, you can! Colvars is built-in (open up a tkconsole, type
in "colvars", and get started!), and no MD is required. It even reads
standard colvar configuration files. Just be sure to call colvars update
before asking for the value, since otherwise it will return 0.
-Josh
On 03/10/2015 09:24 AM, Kevin C Chan wrote:
> Thanks Josh!
>
> I am also wondering whether we can calculate such dihedral of 4 groups
> simply using pdb+psf. Because right now I am doing with colvars turned
> on and running few steps of a random MD and look at the colvars.traj
> and honestly it is as stupid as it sounds.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kevin
>> On 10 Mar, 2015, at 22:14, Josh Vermaas <vermaas2_at_illinois.edu
>> <mailto:vermaas2_at_illinois.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> I believe the way it is written is pretty standard, using the
>> ordering that folks use to describe dihedral potentials within
>> molecules, and just generalizing it to groups of atoms. So group1
>> would be first atom, group2 would be the second, and so on. The
>> "dihedral" angle is measuring rotation around the group2-group3
>> "bond" by measuring the angle between group1 and group4 if you are
>> looking down the group2-group3 bond (Fig. 3 from the Wikipedia article).
>>
>> -Josh Vermaas
>>
>> On 03/10/2015 06:52 AM, Kevin C Chan wrote:
>>> Thank you so much for the hint from "distance".
>>>
>>> Concerning the dihedral definition, I am not sure whether I get what
>>> you are saying. In the Wikipedia, under the section "Dihedral angles
>>> of four atoms
>>> "
>>> , it uses words like first atom, second atom and so on, so is this
>>> the sequence that NAMD colvars are using for dihedral calculation?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, in advance,
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Giacomo Fiorin
>>> <giacomo.fiorin_at_gmail.com <mailto:giacomo.fiorin_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The center of mass is not mentioned explicitly for all
>>> components, but these are all consistent with the distance:
>>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/2.10/ug/node57.html#SECTION000134110000000000000
>>> i.e. the groups' centers-of-mass are used to define individual
>>> points.
>>>
>>> The only occasion where centers of geometry are used is for
>>> rotational fits.
>>>
>>> Regarding the dihedral definition, how about taking a look at
>>> Figure 2 in the same Wikipedia article?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Kevin C Chan
>>> <cchan2242-c_at_my.cityu.edu.hk
>>> <mailto:cchan2242-c_at_my.cityu.edu.hk>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Users,
>>>
>>> I am now trying to harmonically restraint a dihedral angle
>>> of four selections of atoms using colvar for a regular NPT
>>> simulation. However the colvar manual does not give clearly
>>> how it defined the dihedral angle from the 4 groups.
>>>
>>> For example, referring to figure 3 at wiki
>>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihedral_angle), does a
>>> sequence - group 1 2 3 4 means that group 2 and 3 are
>>> overlapped and angle between b1(1-2) and b2(4-3) is measured?
>>>
>>> Also, how actually does the colvar treat a selection of atom
>>> when calculating the distances or angles? Is it using the
>>> center of mass or center of geometry?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>> City University of Hong Kong
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>
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