Re: [Amber]: Peptide torsions in Parm99.dat

From: Warren DeLano <warren_at_sunesis-pharma.com>
Date: Thu 25 Jan 2001 17:06:04 -0800

jim caldwell wrote:

> Those are multi term dihedral functions. I.e. the
> potential is a sum of term in sin n theta, sin 2n theta
> etc. The expansion is explained in the manual.
>
> jim
>

Quite correct, but you missed my point. Notice that there are two multiterm
dihedrals for the *same* dihedral! But read on...

The comments may contain the answer: In both parm94.dat and parm96.dat, we
have the following entries, which are missing in parm99.dat.

parm94.dat and parm96.dat

CT-CT-N -C 1 0.50 180.0 -4.
CT-CT-N -C 1 0.15 180.0 -3.
CT-CT-N -C 1 0.53 0.0 1.

parm99.dat:

C -CT-N -C 1 0.50 180.0 -4.
C -CT-N -C 1 0.15 180.0 -3.
C -CT-N -C 1 0.53 0.0 1.

This looks like a TYPE. "CT-CT-N -C " got changed to a "C -CT-N -C " in
parm99.dat, and we ended up with duplicated and missing (wildcard fallback)
peptide dihedrals! This looks to me like a major typo, one that may cast a
shadow on any simulations previously run with parm99.dat. Jim or others,
please confirm. Is this a real error?

- Warren

Warren DeLano wrote:

> I noticed a puzzling set of parameters for amide torsions in the
> parm99.dat file (directly from the Amber web site, Jun-mei Wang's work -
> lines 534-538)
>
> C -N -CT-C 1 0.850 180.000 -2.
> C -N -CT-C 1 0.800 0.000 1.
> C -CT-N -C 1 0.50 180.0 -4.
> phi,psi,parm94
> C -CT-N -C 1 0.15 180.0 -3.
> phi,psi,parm94
> C -CT-N -C 1 0.53 0.0 1.

> phi,psi,parm94


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