Re: Alchemify Possibilities

From: Jérôme Hénin (jerome.henin_at_ibpc.fr)
Date: Mon Apr 25 2016 - 11:31:32 CDT

Hi Dave,

The alchemy code in NAMD, and alchemify, are designed for just two groups
in mind. If you are familiar with C programming, I believe you can achieve
the desired result with minor modifications of alchemify.

Jerome

On 25 April 2016 at 18:15, Brian Radak <bradak_at_anl.gov> wrote:

> The standalone alchemify program is, I believe, largely deprecated. All of
> the PSF cleanup can now be done at startup inside NAMD. You do, however,
> still have to tag your groups in a PDB file (using 0, 1, -1 in the bfactor
> column by default).
>
> As for your specific case, do you mean that you want B and D to be in
> alchemical group 1 and C and E to be in alchemical group 2? Or do you want
> 4 separate alchemical groups? NAMD does not currently support the latter.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 04/25/2016 11:03 AM, David Huggins wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am having a little trouble with the alchemify tool
>>
>> It is working with no problem if I switch off interactions between
>> chains B and C, but I would like it to switch off interactions between
>> chains D and E as well as between chains B and C. Is this possible
>> with alchemify? When I try it, the simulations always die immediately
>> with a "Low global exclusion count"
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
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