From: Giacomo Fiorin (giacomo.fiorin_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 27 2015 - 15:55:13 CDT
As stated in the previous email, the state file contains a grid with the
metadynamics energy and forces. The energy as a function of the grid's
position is the biasing potential, by definition.
Giacomo
On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Fidan Sumbul <fidansumbul_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Dr. Fiorin,
>
> Thank you for your reply. Sorry for the mistake I ment the second column
> in the traj file as the collective variable.
>
> Do i have to calculate the biasing potential using these values or is it
> already written in the state file as decribed?
>
> Regards,
>
> Fidan Sumbul
>
> On 27 Oct 2015, at 21:14, Giacomo Fiorin <giacomo.fiorin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Fidan, the first column of the traj file is the step number, the second is
> the collective variable.
>
> There is no kinetic energy by default in metadynamics.
>
> The email thread refers to the data found in the state file, which
> contains a grid with the metadynamics energy and forces, and additional
> explicit Gaussian hills when these are off-grid.
>
> Giacomo
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Fidan Sumbul <fidansumbul_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear NAMD Users,
>>
>> I'm trying to perform a multiple replica well-tempered metadynamics
>> simulation by using an eigenvector as bias. As a trial, I perfomed a 20ps
>> run with a 300K temperature increase. The simulation completed without any
>> problem. However, I would like to calculate the biasing potential during
>> the simulation. I know the first column of the colvars.traj file is the
>> value of the bias, but I didn't understand what is the last column
>> (E_metadynamics1) is for. Is it the summation of the E_potential and
>> E-kinetic of the bias?
>>
>> I found a conversation in this mailing list stating that the first list
>> of data after the definition of the colvars is the biasing potential.
>>
>>
>> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/mailing_list/namd-l.2014-2015/2622.html
>>
>> My second question is, if it is so, shouldn't it be as many as the number
>> of output step as in the colvars.traj file?
>>
>> I'm attaching colvars.state file and colvars.traj file.
>>
>> thank you in advance for your answers.
>>
>> --
>> Fidan Sumbul
>> PhD Student and T.A.
>> Polymer Research Center
>> Department of Chemical Engineering
>> Bogazici University
>>
>
>
>
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