AMBER Archive (2005)

Subject: Re: AMBER: Amber 8: questions about free energy perturbation

From: Angela Liu (angela_ambermail_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Sep 16 2005 - 10:15:26 CDT


Dear Prof. Case,

Thank you for your response. Your suggested approach
is what I was planning to do, too, except that I was
afraid that the accumulated statistical errors could
be even larger than a single TI calculation.

Best wishes,
Angela

--- "David A. Case" <case_at_scripps.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005, Angela Liu wrote:
> >
> >
> > I have read and understood your tutorial of
> mutating
> > toluene to nothing. However, in the Amber 8
> manual, it
> > specifies that dummy atoms can only exist in the
> > perturbed Hamiltonian on Page 134 of Section 5.13:
>
> This restriction will be lifted in the next release.
> For now, I think you
> would have to make the change in two steps, one to
> remove certain atoms from
> one end state, and the other to remove atoms from
> the other end state (so that
> the intermediate state is the same for both cases.)
> Then you can arrange it
> so that dummy atoms are only present in the
> perturbed state.
>
> ...good luck...dave case
>
> --
>
>
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