AMBER Archive (2005)

Subject: Re: AMBER: Separating solvent and solute energy in the microcanonical mode

From: Carlos Simmerling (carlos_at_ilion.bio.sunysb.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 17 2005 - 17:05:17 CST


there is no reason that the total energy of the protein
should be conserved in the simulation. It is only the total
system energy that is constant- nothing is guaranteed
for components.

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Mey Khalili wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to estimate the extent to which the total energy is
>conserved in microcanonical mode in AMBER. I ran Ala10 in a box of
>water in the NVE mode, without any coupling to the Berendsen bath as I
>know from the AMBER archive that this method does not keep the total
>energy as constant as the NVE mode.
> I ran the system for 90ps and then monitored the total, potential and
>kinetic energy of the entire system. The drift in the total energy is
>0.5% of the kinetic and 0.6% of the potential energy. But this is the
>TOTAL energy of the solvent plus the protein. How do I extract the
>protein's potential, kinetic and total energy to see to what extent the
>total energy of the protein is conserved?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mey
>
>
>
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