[AMBER] ScaledMD for proline dipeptide

From: Niels Geudens <Niels.Geudens.UGent.be>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 08:02:37 +0200

Hi all,

I would like to see the cis-trans isomerisation of a proline dipeptide
(with non-proteinic caps). For this I am trying to use scaled MD in
Amber14. I first ran a simulation without the scaledMD flag in the
input file:

  &cntrl
   iwrap = 1
   imin = 0, irest = 1, ntx = 7,
   ntb = 2, pres0 = 1.0, ntp = 1,
   taup = 2.0,
   cut = 10.0, ntr = 0,
   ntc = 2, ntf = 2,
   tempi = 300.0, temp0 = 300.0,
   ntt = 3, gamma_ln = 1.0,
   nstlim = 5000000, dt = 0.002,
   ntpr = 100, ntwx = 500, ntwr = 1000
   ioutfm = 1
  /

This simulation ran without any errors, but no isomerisation is
present. Next, I added the scaledMD (with lamba = 0.7). At first, this
simulation also runs without any problems. However, after a variable
number of frames (I retried a few times), the molecule seems to
"disappear" when viewed with vmd. The last meaningfull entry in the
scaledMD.log file is:

500 354500 -9646.920713734136 0.700000000000
-6752.844499613895 2894.076214120241
500 355000 NaN 0.700000000000
      NaN NaN

Similarly, this MDoutput file says:

  NSTEP = 354800 TIME(PS) = 729.600 TEMP(K) = 423.76 PRESS
= 432.6
  Etot = -4282.2994 EKtot = 2627.3184 EPtot =
-6909.6177
  BOND = 18.9484 ANGLE = 52.2623 DIHED =
   53.2375
  1-4 NB = 8.8145 1-4 EEL = 280.3660 VDWAALS =
1338.0893
  EELEC = -11622.6005 EHBOND = 0.0000 RESTRAINT =
    0.0000
  EKCMT = 1489.3212 VIRIAL = 1196.8884 VOLUME =
31310.6309
                                                     Density =
    0.9927
   
------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  NSTEP = 354900 TIME(PS) = 729.800 TEMP(K) = NaN PRESS
= NaN
  Etot = NaN EKtot = NaN EPtot =
       NaN
  BOND = ************** ANGLE = 8471.6843 DIHED =
    0.0000
  1-4 NB = 0.0000 1-4 EEL = 0.0000 VDWAALS =
       NaN
  EELEC = NaN EHBOND = 0.0000 RESTRAINT =
    0.0000
  EKCMT = 12582912.0000 VIRIAL = NaN VOLUME =
       NaN
                                                     Density =
       NaN
   
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

However, the simulation continues until the end.
When I save the last frame (with an invisible molecule) as a pbd with
vmd, several molecules appear to be present..

Can anyone help with this issue?

Kind regards

Niels




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