Re: [AMBER] RDPARM

From: Thomas Cheatham III <tec3.utah.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 15:11:58 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)

> Type r* eps
> n1 1.8240 0.1700
> c3 1.9080 0.1094
> h1 1.3870 0.0157
> hn 0.6000 0.0157
> c2 1.9080 0.0860
> o 1.6612 0.2100
> hc 1.4870 0.0157
> ha 1.4590 0.0150
>
> There are type n, and n3 that are missing.

If you look at the parm files, i.e. parm99.dat you will see near the
bottom (where the vdw parameters are):

N NA N2 N* NC NB NT NY
C* CA CB CC CD CK CM CN CQ CR CV CW CY CZ

MOD4 RE
  H 0.6000 0.0157 !Ferguson base pair geom.
  HO 0.0000 0.0000 OPLS Jorgensen, JACS,110,(1988),1657
  HS 0.6000 0.0157 W. Cornell CH3SH --> CH3OH FEP

After the MOD4 is specification of vdw parameters. Prior to this you see
the text that is "equivalencing" the vdw parameters of sets of atoms. You
might imagine, for example, that a set of nitrogens has the same vdw, yet
different dihedrals (depending on their connectivity). The text above
says treat NA, N2, N*, NC, NB, NT, NY as equivalent to N. Later in the
nonbond list...

  N 1.8240 0.1700 OPLS
  N3 1.8240 0.1700 OPLS
  NY 1.8240 0.1700 N in nitrile

Technically, NY was already equivalenced (but it also has the same
parameters, so I do not know what trumps what here when it is both
equivalenced but then specified with *different* parameters without more
detailed digging), however all of the other N's equivalenced are not
listed, just "N ". So, the prmtop only contains vdw's for "N " (and not
NA, N2, N*, ...). However the atoms still retain the appropriate type
(for the proper dihedrals. This is why the "printatoms" command shows all
the types.

> Why is the printtype command giving me R* and epsilon parameters? what happened
> to missing n and n3?

If you read the manual, printtype prints out the vdw parameters in the
prmtop in the form of R* and epsilon. If you want to see the actual
coefficients (mixed), "printlj". If you want to see the type of each
atom, "printatom"

--tec3

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