Joanne Martin wrote:
Thanks Justin,
I think I have the restraints section sorted...........

However, once all of the dihedrals are obtained from the MDs, I would like to do a WHAM analysis, of the reaction pathway. As I have to run each conformation as a separate MD in order to obtain all dihedral conformations, how can I do this.

Do what? Sorry, I'm not clear on what you mean here. You need a series of starting configurations that you use to run independent MD simulations. How you generate those configurations is up to you, either manually editing the structure, running unrestrained MD and dumping out frames corresponding to the desired angles, etc.

g-wham in gmx requires .pdo files from the US output, but since I cannot

.pdo files have not been required since Gromacs 3.3.3. The new format is simple .xvg files.

use US (in the classical sense) for a dihedral, how can i generate a final plot of free energy vrs dihedral???

I don't know if g_wham is going to be useful here, since you're not using the pull code and hence your runs won't generate pullf/x.xvg files, which are what g_wham reads. You may want to look into the literature for how people calculate this.

-Justin

Thanks again, for all the help,
Joanne



On Fri,. Mar 4, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalem...@vt.edu <mailto:jalem...@vt.edu>> wrote:



    Joanne Martin wrote:

        Hi Justin, thanks so much for the swift reply.
        With regards to the mdp setting


         > The proper setting for the "dihre" keyword is either "yes" or
        "no."

        How to I specify which dihedral I want to restrain and the force
        constant which I want to apply to it??


    That's controlled in the topology.  See the manual, section 4.3.3
    and table 5.6.

    -Justin

        Regards,
        Joanne


        On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Justin A. Lemkul
        <jalem...@vt.edu <mailto:jalem...@vt.edu>
        <mailto:jalem...@vt.edu <mailto:jalem...@vt.edu>>> wrote:



           Joanne Martin wrote:

               Hi, I'm a trying to calculate the PMF of a dihedral using
               Gromacs version 4.04.
               I have read through all posts on the mailing list
        regarding this
               query, and although Chris Neale did explain how to set the
               restraints for Gromacs 3, these options are now obsolete for
               4.04............ I get the following error >

               Ignoring obsolete mdp entry 'domain-decomposition'
               Replacing old mdp entry 'unconstrained-start' by
        'continuation'
               Ignoring obsolete mdp entry 'dihre_tau'
               Ignoring obsolete mdp entry 'nstdihreout'
               Ignoring obsolete mdp entry 'nstcheckpoint'
               ERROR: invalid enum 'simple' for variable dihre, using 'no'


           The proper setting for the "dihre" keyword is either "yes" or
        "no."


               I have read Chris's paper from 2008 on alanine dihedrals but
               again this is done using Gromacs 3, and his tutorial for
        US in
               based on distance restraints.

               Basically I have two conformations of a sugar ( a starting
               conformation and an end conformation), and I want to
        generate a
               series of snapshots ie a reaction coordinate, from a "pulled"
               MD, for use in US.
               The pull code is only applicable to distance restraints,
        so how
               can I apply a restraint to the dihedral so that it will
        sample
               all dihedrals from the initial -180deg through to the end
        +180deg?


           You need to generate any intermediate structures at angles
        you wish
           to sample. There is no mechanism to enforce the rotation about a
           dihedral presently implemented in Gromacs.


               I would really appreciate if someone could explain to me,
        where
               I should set the restraints, as this is not clear from
        the manual.
               Also once the initial configurations are generated, is
        the below
               mdp option accurate for US of a dihedral >
               (query regarding distance option should this be direction??)


           The pull code is irrelevant here.  Please do not attempt to
        apply my
           tutorial to your problem (beyond basic theory), as you will
        probably
           only frustrate yourself by doing so.

           When using a dihedral restraint, an energy term corresponding
        to the
           restraint should be written to the .edr file.  I imagine you can
           plot these values as a function of the dihedral angle to
        extract the
           information you want.

           -Justin



               ; Pull code
               pull            = umbrella
               pull_geometry   = *_distance_*  ; can't get PMF with
        direction


               pull_dim        = N N Y
               pull_start      = yes pull_ngroups      = 1
               pull_group0     = ? pull_group1 = ?
               pull_init1      = 0
               pull_rate1      = 0.0
               pull_k1         = 1000          ; kJ mol^-1 nm^-2
               pull_nstxout    = 1000          ; every 2 ps
               pull_nstfout    = 1000          ; every 2 ps




               Can someone please get back to me with any suggestions
        you may have,


               Kindest regards,
               Joanne











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