On 6/10/13 2:50 PM, JW Gibbs wrote:
Hi,
I have been trying to perform the simulations using the amber forcefield, in
which the [ pairtypes ] directive is not defined explicitly in the
ffnonbonded.itp file, but rather the 1-4 interactions are generated as per
the defaults section in the forcefield.itp file. I was wondering what
happens to these 1-4 interactions at lambda=1 state?
Suppose 1 corresponds to CA and 4 corresponds to NA at state A (lambda = 0)
and the CA_per and NA_per are the corresponding atomtypes at state B (lambda
= 1).
It is defined in the topology file that
...
...
[ pairs ]
1 4 1
....
....
So does it mean that at state B (lambda = 1), the 1-4 nonbonded interactions
will be calculated between CA_per and NA_per?
Although the [ pairs_nb ] section is described in the manual, I would
appreciate if someone elaborates a little more.
The actual answer depends on exactly how you're treating the system. Are you
using [pairs_nb] in your topology or just [pairs]? The outcome will be
different depending on which you're using. Also note that, as the manual says,
you don't really need to mess with [pairs_nb] at all; you can achieve unscaled
internal interactions using "couple-intramol = no" in the .mdp file. Without
seeing the .mdp file, it's even more difficult to know what you're doing and
what you should expect.
-Justin
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Virginia Tech
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