Ye Yang wrote:
 Just no reply from them for some time...

Well, that's unfortunate. I'd hazard a guess that all the units are reduced, but that's just a hunch. Theoretically, all your input and output should be in reduced units. My hunch is based on the fact that everything shown (in terms of force constants) is a nice, round number (5, 10, 400) which seems odd for standard values (see any ffbonded.itp for "normal" values). It looks like everything is relative to the reduced units, but to be sure you'd really have to get a response from those who developed the web service you're trying to use, if this information is not otherwise documented somewhere (FAQ's, publication, etc).

-Justin

Thank you anyway.

Ye
2011/6/22 Justin A. Lemkul <jalem...@vt.edu <mailto:jalem...@vt.edu>>



    Ye Yang wrote:

        Thank you very much, Mark.

        Is there anyway I can know the unit of input from the top file?
        I am not sure what I am getting from the webtool, although it
        shows "kj/mol" the instruction on the web says the unit is
        reduced unit, which makes me confused. In the former case I do
        not need to convert, but in latter case, I need to convert to
        standard units. The webtool is from
        http://smog.ucsd.edu/sbm_faq.__html
        <http://smog.ucsd.edu/sbm_faq.html>, it is developped by Dr.
        Onuchic's group in UCSD.
        Has anyone used this?


    Since this topology was not created by any standard Gromacs utility,
    wouldn't it be more efficient to contact the developers directly
    about implementation details and proper use?

    -Justin

         [ angles ]
         ;ai  aj   ak  func  th0(deg)   Ka
            1      2      3 1  0.95664E+02  0.40000E+02
            2      3      4 1  0.91183E+02  0.40000E+02
            3      4      5 1  0.89842E+02  0.40000E+02
            4      5      6 1  0.91965E+02  0.40000E+02
            5      6      7 1  0.90670E+02  0.40000E+02
            6      7      8 1  0.91186E+02  0.40000E+02
            7      8      9 1  0.92703E+02  0.40000E+02
            8      9     10 1  0.91537E+02  0.40000E+02
            9     10     11 1  0.91328E+02  0.40000E+02
           10     11     12 1  0.92557E+02  0.40000E+02
           11     12     13 1  0.93372E+02  0.40000E+02
           12     13     14 1  0.94347E+02  0.40000E+02
           13     14     15 1  0.99411E+02  0.40000E+02
           14     15     16 1  0.98190E+02  0.40000E+02
        ......
         [ dihedrals ]
         ;ai  aj  ak  al  func  phi0(deg)   Kd(kJ/mol)  mult
            1      2      3      4 1  0.24358E+03  0.10000E+01 1
            1      2      3      4 1  0.73074E+03  0.50000E+00 3
            2      3      4      5 1  0.22823E+03  0.10000E+01 1
            2      3      4      5 1  0.68469E+03  0.50000E+00 3
            3      4      5      6 1  0.23172E+03  0.10000E+01 1
            3      4      5      6 1  0.69515E+03  0.50000E+00 3
            4      5      6      7 1  0.22982E+03  0.10000E+01 1
            4      5      6      7 1  0.68946E+03  0.50000E+00 3


        Thank you very much.

        Ye

        2011/6/22 Mark Abraham <mark.abra...@anu.edu.au
        <mailto:mark.abra...@anu.edu.au>
        <mailto:mark.abra...@anu.edu.__au <mailto:mark.abra...@anu.edu.au>>>


           __
           On 23/06/2011 10:36 AM, Ye Yang wrote:

               Hi,
                   Thanks for replying, Yang.
                   But I still did not get it fully:
                   1. So if we use reduced unit in input, the output and
               calculation is still assumed to be in standard units?


           The calculation uses the same algorithm and whatever values you
           input. Nowhere have you specified that these values are in
        anything
           other than the standard units, so how could GROMACS know to
        change
           anything? (Nor can you specify such)


               But the calculation itself is different since the
            constants are
               different, so the result must differed a lot. Does
            gromacs knows
               that we are using reduced unit?


           No. It's up to you to use a self-consistent set of input
        parameters,
           and to interpret the results correctly.


                   2. With this program/forcefield to build top file
            automaticly,
               the KJ/mol it gives is in the top file, so it is still
            part of
               input, in this case , the gromacs will recognize it in the
               standard unit?


           It doesn't recognize units. It follows an algorithm that is
        correct
           if all the quantities are measured in the standard units. If you
           change something, you have to understand all the consequences and
           interpret appropriately :-)

           Mark


                   3. in the top file it gives:
                     [ angles ]
                ;ai  aj   ak  func  th0(deg)   Ka
                    1      2      3 1  0.95664E+02  0.40000E+02
                    2      3      4 1  0.91183E+02  0.40000E+02
                    3      4      5 1  0.89842E+02  0.40000E+02
                    4      5      6 1  0.91965E+02  0.40000E+02
                    5      6      7 1  0.90670E+02  0.40000E+02
                    6      7      8 1  0.91186E+02  0.40000E+02
                    7      8      9 1  0.92703E+02  0.40000E+02
                    8      9     10 1  0.91537E+02  0.40000E+02
                    9     10     11 1  0.91328E+02  0.40000E+02
                   10     11     12 1  0.92557E+02  0.40000E+02
                   11     12     13 1  0.93372E+02  0.40000E+02
                   12     13     14 1  0.94347E+02  0.40000E+02
                   13     14     15 1  0.99411E+02  0.40000E+02
                   14     15     16 1  0.98190E+02  0.40000E+02
               ......
                [ dihedrals ]
                ;ai  aj  ak  al  func  phi0(deg)   Kd(kJ/mol)  mult
                    1      2      3      4 1  0.24358E+03  0.10000E+01 1
                    1      2      3      4 1  0.73074E+03  0.50000E+00 3
                    2      3      4      5 1  0.22823E+03  0.10000E+01 1
                    2      3      4      5 1  0.68469E+03  0.50000E+00 3
                    3      4      5      6 1  0.23172E+03  0.10000E+01 1
                    3      4      5      6 1  0.69515E+03  0.50000E+00 3
                    4      5      6      7 1  0.22982E+03  0.10000E+01 1
                    4      5      6      7 1  0.68946E+03  0.50000E+00 3


               Seems to me that this is the standard unit, yet the
            author of the
               webtool emphasize that this structure based cg model is
            in reduced
               unit, so what result do I got?
               Has anyone used this webtool to do CG simulation and
            explain what
               is case?

               Thank you all very much.

               Ye

               2011/6/22 Yang Ye <leafyo...@yahoo.com
            <mailto:leafyo...@yahoo.com> <mailto:leafyo...@yahoo.com
            <mailto:leafyo...@yahoo.com>>>


                   Hi,

                   The unit in output is in assumed to be for the
            standard unit
                   input while the value is in reduced unit.

                   So you need to do your own calculation to figure out
            what's
                   the reduced unit is.

                   Regards,
                   Yang Ye

                   On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Ye Yang
                   <knightyang...@gmail.com
            <mailto:knightyang...@gmail.com>
            <mailto:knightyangpku@gmail.__com
            <mailto:knightyang...@gmail.com>>> wrote:

                       Dear all:
                               I see from the user's manual that if our
            input is
                       in reduced unit, the output will also be in reduced
unit(,ftp://ftp.gromacs.org/__pub/manual/3.1/manual-a4-3.1.__1.pdf
            <ftp://ftp.gromacs.org/pub/manual/3.1/manual-a4-3.1.1.pdf>),
                       P25.  On the contrary, if we use standard unit,
            the out
                       put will be in standard unit.
                               This brings the question up when we use
            coarse
                       grain Clementi's model webtool
                       (http://smog.ucsd.edu/sbm_faq.__html
            <http://smog.ucsd.edu/sbm_faq.html>), according to the
                       author, it seems that everything is in reduced
            unit, so
                       the output file should also be in reduced unit, yet I
                       found the topology file that the energy unit is
            KJ/mol.
                       What exactly is the unit of the input and out put
            file?
                       When I pull the molecules, do I get the reduced unit
                       result or the physical unit result?
                               Since I am an experimentalist, getting the
                       physical units is more important to me, so as to
            compare
                       with the experimental results, albeit the intrinsic
                       difference. If I get something in reduced unit,
            there is
                       necessity for me to change it into physical unit,
            or at
                       least clarify it in comparison.
                               Thank you very much.

                       Ye

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