Nicolas SAPAY wrote:
Thanks for your answers (I had forgotten this comment in the script).
The problem is that most of dihedral with multiplicity n >= 6 don't come
alone. For exemple in Arg :
HD1 HE
| | | //
--CG--CD--NE--CZ
| | \
HD2
is defined by 6 dihedral with n>=6 (CG-CD-NE-HE, ..., HD2-CD-NE-CZ)> They
are all of the same type (X-CT2-CT2-X). So, if I understand well, the
result should be OK since, for example, CG-CD-NE-HE and CG-CD-NE-CZ are
not a combination of different type of dihedrals with n >= 6.
Correct. A dihedral is defined by the four atoms, the functional form
and the parameters. The energy profile of rotation about the CD-NE bond
is a linear combination of however many dihedrals it is, which is a
quite different thing.
The problems happen when a combination of different types of dihedral are
used (for example if CG-CD-NE-HE is of type A and CG-CD-NE-CZ is of type
B). In this case, one possibility is to hack the Gromacs code by allowing
a 6th Ryckaert-Bellemans parameter (?)
This is not a problem. None of these dihedral functions occupy the same
"space", in that (by the above definition) they have a different set of
four atoms despite having the same functional form and central atoms.
The potential problem comes because the [ dihedraltypes ] section of
either the .top file (or the *bon.itp file that is #included) does not
allow multiple dihedral functions of the same functional form to apply
to the same set of four atom types - grompp just uses the last one
defined. As David correctly points out (and I learned something here!),
you can define multiple dihedrals of the same form for the same set of
four *atoms* (not atom types) in the [ dihedrals ] section of the .top
file. You have to read chapter 5 closely to pick that up though (5.6.1
and 5.7.2). So yet another solution to the general problem would be for
a script to post-process the CHARMM .top file to "correct" the dihedrals
where multiple periodic functions apply to given set of four atom types.
Mark
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