Re: [AMBER] Calculating diffusion Constant D

From: Vijay Manickam Achari <vjrajamany.yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 03:42:48 +0100 (BST)

Dear Dickson,

Thanks for your kind reply.

I almost done of what you have prescribed. By the way, I would like to know about the unit for this.

As explained by on-screen information during ptraj run as below: 

"DIFFUSION
      Only the average results will be dumped to diffusion-malto-thermo63.dat_?.xmgr
      The time between frames in psec is 5.000.
      To calculated diffusion constants, calculate the slope of the lines(s)
      and multiply by 10.0/6.0; this will give units of 1x10**-5 cm**2/s
      The atoms in the calculation follow: :63"


 Should I times factor "1x10**-5" to the answer I get ? Is that is the way of doing?


Regards
 
Vijay Manickam Achari
(Phd Student c/o Prof Rauzah Hashim)
Chemistry Department,
University of Malaya,
Malaysia
vjramana.gmail.com


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 From: "Dickson, Callum" <callum.dickson09.imperial.ac.uk>
To: Vijay Manickam Achari <vjrajamany.yahoo.com>; AMBER Mailing List <amber.ambermd.org>
Sent: Thursday, 25 July 2013, 18:39
Subject: Re: [AMBER] Calculating diffusion Constant D
 

Hi Vijay,

So from the ambertools manual:

<filename_root>_x.xmgr Mean square displacement(s) in the X direction.
<filename_root>_y.xmgr Mean square displacement(s) in the Y direction.
<filename_root>_z.xmgr Mean square displacement(s) in the Z direction.
<filename_root>_a.xmgr Average mean square displacement(s).
<filename_root>_r.xmgr Total distance travelled.

Assuming your bilayer is aligned along the z-axis, sum the x- and y- plots to get MSD in the xy-plane and take the slope of the resulting graph, then multiply the gradient by (10/4) to get the diffusion coefficient. Also note that you should do simulations in the NVE ensemble if you want to compare resulting diffusion values to experiment.

All the best,
Callum

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Sent: 25 July 2013 11:07
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Subject: [AMBER] Calculating diffusion Constant D

Dear amber experts,

I need some clarification on calculating the diffusion constant D from MD simulation for bilayer system using  "diffusion" command in ptraj.

The command I used is :
"diffusion :1-1 5.0 average diffusion-malto-thermo1.dat"


I get to see information saying that
"DIFFUSION
      Only the average results will be dumped to diffusion-malto-thermo63.dat_?.xmgr
      The time between frames in psec is 5.000.
      To calculated diffusion constants, calculate the slope of the lines(s)
      and multiply by 10.0/6.0; this will give units of 1x10**-5 cm**2/s
      The atoms in the calculation follow: :63"



I get five files. I choose the file with  *z extention to calculate the gradient.

For this I used gnuplot with command below:
" f(x) = b + m*x "
" fit f(x) "allxy-mal-cel-iso-bcm-diffusion_z.dat" using 1:2  via b,m "


I get values for "b" and "m" as below:
=======================            ==========================

b              = 1.12224          +/- 0.003892    (0.3468%)

m              = 0.0337373        +/- 0.0001686    (0.4997%)


This means I get the gradient value as "0.0337373" and the y-intercept as "1.12224".

For now I want to calculate the diffusion.
So I times 0.0337373 with  (10/4) since mine is bilayer (2 dimensional system).
I get "0.08434325".

Finally should I write my answer as

0.08434325 x 10^(-5) cm^2/s


Is this is the correct way of interpret the D value?

I appreciate anyone's reply to this post.





Vijay Manickam Achari
(Phd Student c/o Prof Rauzah Hashim)
Chemistry Department,
University of Malaya,
Malaysia
vjramana.gmail.com
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