Got worried myself about that recently, Charles said:

"Do note that torsionDB can have large energies - the minima
are not at zero."

… so no worries from energy standpoint. Just make sure there are no serious 
outliers, as usual.


On Aug 12, 2014, at 6:25 PM, Sandra Pineda Sanabria <pined...@ualberta.ca> 
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am using anneal_nordc.py and refine_nordc.py for the structure of a 
> heterodimer. I noticed that most of the positive energy on my calculations is 
> coming from the torsionDB term (~4000, 95% of total Energy) and that 90% of 
> torsion angle violations come from residues in the same monomer even if I do 
> not use any type of angle restraints, (e.g. dihedrals) for that monomer.
> 
> The setup is quite conventional:
> 
>   from torsionDBPotTools import create_TorsionDBPot
>   torsionDB = create_TorsionDBPot('torsionDB')
>   potList.append( torsionDB )
>   rampedParams.append( MultRamp(.002,2,"torsionDB.setScale(VALUE)") )
> 
> But still get:
> 
>   Powell::step: irregular exit: Line search abandoned: gradient may be 
> incorrect
>   *-- POWELL ------ step=      4 --- stepsize=   0.01000 --- energy evals=   
> 37 -*
>   |   E(poten)=  4571.8073491       grad=     1.3909215      ANGL=   
> 119.5602423 |
>   |       BOND=    18.4561174       CDIH=     4.8851933      HBDB=  
> -182.0507300 |  
>   |       IMPR=    16.1391822        VDW=    73.8122596      Vgyr=     
> 4.4490164 |
>   |      jcoup=     0.0000000        noe=   190.1627641       tDB=  
> 4326.3933038 |
>   
> *------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
> 
> Am I missing something? Should I include a selection argument excluding 
> tails? Not append?
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> Sandra E. Pineda S.
> 
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