If you look at figure 4 of that paper, the runs would complete, but the RMS or 
E<SANI> would hit a point in the minimization where it would get stuck.  
Plotting that from the log file may give you some insight.  Slowing the 
dynamics allowed it to smoothly reach a solution.

Cheers,
Geoff

On 11/15/10 5:40 PM, "Joshua Ward" <wardjm at purdue.edu> wrote:

@ Charles
Thanks for the feedback. I saw the setting but it didn't quite sink in
that it would fix the problem. Guess my thought pattern was stuck in a
local minimum.

@ Geoff
A good thought. I managed to avoid exploding forces at least, and the
dynamics were actually completing. I'll give the force constant
adjustment a try anyway and see how it goes.

Josh

On Nov 15, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Mueller, Geoffrey (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote:

> Clearly that was a problem.
>
> Another issue may be if you have very large couplings you may also
> create very large forces on the atoms, and you will need to
> rebalance (probably lower) the RDC force constants.  You may need to
> make the time step shorter, and refine longer, similar to Choy et
> al.  Journal of Biomolecular NMR, 21: 31-40, 2001.
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff
>
>
> On 11/15/10 4:40 PM, "Charles at schwieters.org"
> <Charles at schwieters.org> wrote:
>
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> Hello Jos--
>
>> I am trying to refine a structure of ubiquitin using some very large
>> RDCs (several > 100 Hz). During refinement, the rdc energy becomes
>> very large, and final structures are yielding 10 out of 40 rdcs
>> violated. Looking at the list, all violated residues have observed
>> RDC
>> greater than 100 and a calculated RDC of exactly 100, so it looks
>> like
>> you have a maximum value limit in place. All other RDCs are modeled
>> quite well.
>>
>> Is there indeed an upper limit restriction on RDC_calc, and is
>> there a
>> way that I can increase it? I haven't spotted an appropriate keyword
>> in the examples and docs yet.
>>
>
> There is indeed an upper bound for Da which can be adjusted using the
> setDaMax method of VarTensor. For example, the setup of the alignment
> tensor object in eginput/gb1_rdc/refine.py can be modified as below to
> set a maximum Da value to 200 Hz. This is documented here:
> http://nmr.cit.nih.gov/xplor-nih/doc/current/python/ref/varTensor.html
> and the default value of DaMax is 50.
>
> best regards--
> Charles
>
> #                        medium  Da   rhombicity
> for (medium,Da,Rh) in [ ('t',   -6.5, 0.62),
>                        ('b',   -9.9, 0.23) ]:
>    oTensor = create_VarTensor(medium)
>    oTensor.setDaMax(200)
>    oTensor.setDa(Da)
>    oTensor.setRh(Rh)
>    media[medium] = oTensor
>    pass
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