Re: [AMBER] Scaling of atomic mass of water molecules

From: Brian Radak <radak004.umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 11:21:58 -0400

I think that's likely the only suggestion you will get here, "try it." The
most commonly used enhanced sampling technique with AMBER is T-REMD
(although most prominently with GB solvent) and, to a lesser extent, aMD
and SGLD, or else combinations thereof. These are arguably more intuitive
in their behavior than changing masses, much better documented in the
literature, and readily implemented.

Regards,
Brian



On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Manikanthan Bhavaraju <
manikanthanbhavaraju.gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I have not found this kind of work to be done in amber community (I
> might be wrong). Since protein aggregation happens in the time scale of
> micro seconds. I want to see whether sort of approach will effect the
> sampling or not.
>
> mani
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Brian Radak <radak004.umn.edu> wrote:
>
> > I don't think this kind of "trick" has been used in AMBER very often, if
> at
> > all. Most classical static quantities of interest in the canonical
> ensemble
> > are mass invariant, so your plan is likely sound, but I don't have any
> > ideas as to how sampling will be affected. Perhaps that is why it is not
> > done very often?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Brian
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Manikanthan Bhavaraju <
> > manikanthanbhavaraju.gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > I am interested to study the mechanism of protein aggregation using an
> > > explicit solvent simulations. As a model system we have taken a
> amyloid
> > > protein ~ 100 residues. Initially, I would like to analyze the affect
> > of
> > > scaling of atomic mass of the water molecules vs. standard simulation
> > > techniques. My assumption is that scaling the atomic mass of the
> solvent
> > > molecules can decrease the viscosity of the system, avoid heating
> > > (performing minimization and production runs), take larger time steps,
> > and
> > > the system to some extent will be able to quickly cross the energy
> > barriers
> > > on the potential energy surface.
> > >
> > > On the other hand, I want to conduct a regular explicit solvent
> > simulation
> > > (minimization, heating, equilibration, and production) and then compare
> > > both the results. Can you anyone give me some suggestions or their
> > expert
> > > opinion on this kind of analysis?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > mani
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