From: Brian Radak (brian.radak_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2018 - 08:18:27 CST
There is not, to my knowledge, any positive test for convergence for any
kind of MD simulation, much less FEP. The forward/backward test performed
by ParseFEP can only serve as a negative test for convergence - if they
don't match, then one or both of the simulations are not converged.
In my personal experience, which doesn't really cover absolute ligand
binding free energies, I would always prefer running longer per window than
running more windows.
Running a bidirectional simulation and using SOS or BAR is almost certainly
better than one sided FEP and should give more realistic uncertainties.
HTH,
BKR
On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 4:05 AM, Francesco Pietra <chiendarret_at_gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Brian:
> I went on with that FEP of previous thread "Ligand atoms moving too fast
> with FEP" protein-ligand complex. Aim: estimating the binding free energy
> with respect to other ligands for the same binding site.
> frwd Bound was run with delta lambda 0.2, i.e., five windows, with 100,000
> steps re-equilibration and 400,000 steps FEP at each window, ts=1.0fs.
>
> Is it possible guessing from parseFEP, from simply frwd, if such
> conditions lead to acceptable convergence? Or back running is also needed
> for such a guess? Or, finally, should be better running frwd, or
> forwd+back, with ten or more windows?
>
> From the attached summary.png, from parseFEP, for the above frwd, I fear
> that the above conditions for frwd are inadequate (convergence far from
> being attained) to my purpose. All such questions because I am dealing with
> a large system, with costly simulations.
>
> Thanks a lot for advice.
>
> francesco pietra
>
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