Thanks for yor reply,
I'm planning to simulate macromolecules in water and want to understand in detail how Amber treats the Tip3/4/5p models.
I've downloaded the parameter files and from them I first got the impression that the Amber Tip3p model is flexible (because K values are given for both the OW-HW bond and HW-OW-HW angle). Now, did I get you right in that this "flexibility" is then restrained by the Amber program, using a procedure called SHAKE, to render the Tip3p model inflexible (in the sense that the relative distances and angles between atoms never change), and that this also extends to the Tip4/5p models?
Also do you know why this restraining is done. Doesn't it remove the internal vibration energy modes from the Tip3/4/5p water models?
I yet don't have access to the Amber source code. Do you know of some other place, article or so, where I can find the parameters for the "flexible" description of the Tip4/5p models?
/uj
----- Original Message -----
From: "David A. Case" <case.scripps.edu>
To: <amber.scripps.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: AMBER: TIP5P
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003, Ulf Johansson wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to find out the Tip5p water model Amber paremeters. I'm looking
> > in frcmod.tip5p. The bond parameters OW-EP for the extra points seems okay
> > (the K-value is 553 and the distance is 0.7). The angle parameter is given
> > as HW-OW-EP (the K-value is missing and the angle value is 109.47). This
> > angle of 109.47, isn't this the angle between the extra points. If so
> > EP-OW-EP should be specified I think? Also the torson parameters seem funny.
> > There's no V/2 value. So both the angle and torsional parameters won't
> > result in any force?
>
> The way in which the "off-atom" points in TIP5P (and similar models)
> are handled in sander is partially hardwired. You might want to look at the
> code in extra_pts.f (search for "TIP5P"). Basically, the parameters you are
> looking at in the frcmod.tip5p file are placeholders (which is why they have
> zero force constants). The only thing that sander really needs to find there
> are the OW-EP distance and the vdW parameters for OW.
>
> >
> > Finally Tip3p, Tip4p and Tip5p are basically rigid models I think. For
> > example Tip5p is clearly ridgid in the Mahoney/Jorgensen article. But in
> > Amber all those models seem to be flexible?
> >
>
> No, TIP3P, TIP4P and TIP5P are rigid in amber, since there are three SHAKEn
> bonds, and the "off-atom" points are always constructed starting from the
> positions of the three real atoms.
>
> ..hope this helps....dac
>
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