From: Jérôme Hénin (jerome.henin_at_ibpc.fr)
Date: Tue Dec 08 2015 - 09:09:58 CST
Hi "sunyzero",
How many degrees of freedom do you need to sample for your calculation to
work?
Once you can answer that question, you'll have a much better idea how to
proceed.
Jerome
On 8 December 2015 at 08:42, Souvik Sinha <souvik.sinha893_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I think increasing the sampling time will eventually decrease the barrier
> until convergence of sampling is achieved . And you can also use the
>  "historyFreq " option to your restarin1.in file so that you can have the
> track for the pmf during the simulation.
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:18 AM, sunyzero <sunyzero_at_163.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Namd users
>>    Hello, I need your help about determining the PMF with Adaptive
>> Biasing Forces. According to tutorial about Methods for calculating
>> Poteintials of Mean Force, I use it on HIV-1 protease inhibitors
>> dissociation process,and inhibitors dissociate from binding site moving
>> range from 0 to 36Å, which is divided into six window,each 6-Å wide,but
>> in the ABF output .pmf file, the value of pmf is too large,the maximum
>> value is 88kcal/mol. I try many times, there still exist questions.Here
>> is one of my configures.
>> # Force-Field Parameters
>> exclude             scaled1-4
>> 1-4scaling          1.0
>> cutoff              12.
>> switching           on
>> switchdist          10.
>> pairlistdist        13.5
>> # Integrator Parameters
>> timestep            1.0  ;# 2fs/step (only if needed to finish quickly)
>> rigidBonds         water  ;# needed for 2fs steps
>> nonbondedFreq       2
>> fullElectFrequency  4
>> stepspercycle       20
>> # Constant Temperature Control
>> langevin            on    ;# do langevin dynamicsgmail.google.com
>> langevinDamping     1     ;# damping coefficient (gamma) of 5/ps
>> langevinTemp        $temperature
>> langevinHydrogen    off    ;# don't couple langevin bath to hydrogens
>> wrapAll             on
>> # PME (for full-system periodic electrostatics)
>> PME                 yes
>> PMEGridSpacing      1.0
>> # Constant Pressure Control (variable volume)
>> useGroupPressure      no ;# needed for rigidBonds
>> useFlexibleCell       no
>> useConstantArea       no
>>
>> langevinPiston        on
>> langevinPistonTarget  1.01325 ;#  in bar -> 1 atm
>> langevinPistonPeriod  100.
>> langevinPistonDecay   50.
>> langevinPistonTemp    $temperature
>> # Output
>> outputName         win1
>> restartfreq         500     ;# 1000steps = every 1ps
>> dcdfreq             500
>> xstFreq             500
>> outputEnergies      500
>> outputPressure      500
>> colvars              on
>> colvarsConfig      restrain1.in
>> # Minimization
>> #minimize            500
>> #reinitvels          $temperature
>> run 1500000 ;#
>>
>>
>> And here is my restrain1.in
>> colvarsTrajFrequency      500
>> colvarsRestartFrequency   500
>> colvar {
>>    name Translocation
>>
>>    width 0.1
>>
>>    lowerboundary   0.0
>>    upperboundary   6.0
>>
>>    lowerwallconstant 100.0
>>    upperwallconstant 100.0
>>
>>    distanceZ {
>>       main {
>>          atomnumbers { the atoms of ligand }
>>       }
>>       ref  {
>>          atomnumbers { the atoms of protein and name CA
>>          }
>>       }
>>       axis  ( 0.0, 0.0,  1.0 )
>>    }
>> }
>>
>> abf {
>>   colvars Translocation
>>   fullSamples    1000
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Souvik Sinha
> Research Fellow
> Bioinformatics Centre (SGD LAB)
> Bose Institute
>
> Contact: 033 25693275
>
 
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