Hi Reza,

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:03:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Reza Salari <resa...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] New ion parameters and OPLS-AA
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Thanks for your response.

While I will try that (although it seems it needs quite amount of scripting), I remember in the past some people in the mailing list mentioned problems while using nonbond_params directvie with OPLS-AA and in response it was generally suggested to avoid doing this kind of mixing. Like Dr Abraham suggestion here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/gmx-users@gromacs.org/msg23147.html

Have you tried this kind of mixing for OPLS successfully, without being overridden by the default rules?

I have successfully done so.
My topology looks like this:

"
#include "ffoplsaa.itp"

[ nonbond_params ]
    opls_272       opls_412  1 0.277  1.2857

#include "frm.itp"


; Include Position restraint file
#ifdef POSRES
#include "posre.itp"
#endif

.
.
.
"

Of course there should be a line for every possible pair interaction.
It is important to put the [ nonbond_params ] after the include to ffoplsaa.itp


The main thing that I am still unsure about is how the previously mentioned paper converted the sigma values for different combination rules. It seems that there must be a relatively direct way to do this without going through the re-parametrization process.

Regards,
Reza Salari



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From: Andrew Paluch <apal...@nd.edu>
To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users@gromacs.org>
Sent: Tue, December 15, 2009 4:34:18 PM
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] New ion parameters and OPLS-AA

Read the manual. You can explicitly declare all of your cross terms rather than using the same mixing rule for all terms. You can easily write a script to modify your input files accordingly,

Andrew


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Reza Salari <resa...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi All,

Recently there has been a new set of ion parameters published by Joung and Chetham and I am interested in running some test runs using these parameters. These set of parameters are based on using LB rule (arithmetic mean) for sigmas.

However I am using OPLS-AA ff so I am using the combination rule 3 (geometric mean of corresponding A and B values). My question is that can I use the exact sigma values from Cheatham for my simulations? I'm almost positive that I have to change these sigma values to be consistent with the combination rule that I am using. In fact there is a paper by Horinek et al that has a nice table of different ionic sigma and epsilon values from different parameter sets (Aqvist, Jensen, Cheatham,..). The article is
here:
http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JCPSA6000130000012124507000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes

In that table, they have mentioned two sigmas; a usual sigma (which is used with rule 2) and a sigma prime (which can be used with rule 3). However it seems sort of unclear to me how they got these value since in some references that they've mentioned I could find either sigma or sigma prime, not both. So I am guessing there must be some way to convert these two sigmas to each other.

So does anyone know if there is such way? Does GROMACS internally treats sigmas as "sigma prime" for OPLS-AA? I looked at the manual and also searched the mailing list to find an explanation but without luck. I really appreciate any help on
clarifying this.

Regards,
Reza Salari

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