Re: [AMBER] MMGBSA on Protein-DNA/RNA complex

From: Vlad Cojocaru <vlad.cojocaru.mpi-muenster.mpg.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:47:39 +0200

Moreover, I think its a good idea to test different parameters for your
system (with the caution that changing one parameter may require
changing other parameters). Different systems may react differently to
change in input parameters ... Important is that you have some
experimental data to compare with before attempting any predictions.

Hope this helps
Vlad


On 06/24/2015 03:21 PM, Vlad Cojocaru wrote:
> The default ipb is 2, not 1 ... We did not change this default.
>
> However, lots of PBSA parameters set by default by the MMPBSA.py script
> are not suitable for the calculations discussed in this thread (at least
> in Amber Tools 14, I did not do calculations yet with the 15 version).
> Because of this I'd advise you to follow Jason's advice "to set
> use_sander=1 and then use the -make-mdins and -use-mdins flags to modify
> the sander mdin files directly". In fact, should you wish to follow the
> protocol we used in the Structure paper, you'll need to do that ...
>
> Below you have an example input file you may start with. But please
> document yourself on every single parameter set in there before running
> massive calculations. Moreover, please note that if you change one
> parameter, others may be affected to. So, you really need to understand
> what you are doing.
>
> Best
> Vlad
>
>
> MMPBSA, Nonlinear PB, inp=2, sasopt=2
> &cntrl
> nsnb=99999, dec_verbose=0, ioutfm=1,
> ipb=2, ntb=0, cut=999.0, imin=5,
> igb=10, inp=2,
> /
> &pb
> epsin=4, epsout=80, smoothopt=1,
> istrng=100.0, pbtemp=300, radiopt=1,
> dprob=1.4, iprob=2.0, sasopt=2, saopt=0,
> triopt=1, arcres=0.25,
> npbopt=1, solvopt=1, accept=0.001,
> maxitn=100, fillratio=4.0, space=0.5,
> nbuffer=0, nfocus=2, fscale=8, npbgrid=1,
> bcopt=5, eneopt=1, frcopt=0, scalec=0,
> cutfd=5.0, cutnb=12, nsnba=1,
> phiout=0,
> decompopt=2, use_rmin=1, sprob=0.557, vprob=1.3,
> rhow_effect=1.129, use_sav=1,
> cavity_surften=0.0378, cavity_offset=-0.5692,
> maxsph=400,
> /
>
>
>
> On 06/24/2015 02:27 PM, Jason Swails wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Muthukumaran R <kumaran.bicpu.edu.in>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I tried MMPBSA, with following input on amber tools 14 (AMBER12)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sample input file with pb analysis
>>>
>>> &general
>>>
>>> startframe=15000, endframe=20000,interval=50,
>>>
>>> verbose=2, keep_files=1,
>>>
>>> /
>>>
>>> &pb
>>>
>>> istrng=0.1, indi=4, scale=2, inp=2,
>>>
>>> /
>>>
>>> when I included the option "ipb=1" in &general or &pb, it gives the same
>>> error
>>>
>>> InputError: Unknown variable ipb in &pb.
>>>
>> ​MMPBSA.py makes no use of the ipb variable. It is automatically set to 1
>> in the sander or mmpbsa_py_energy input files. If you want to change this
>> value to something *besides* 1, you probably need to set use_sander=1 and
>> then use the -make-mdins and -use-mdins flags to modify the sander mdin
>> files directly. If the value of 1 suffices (as it usually does), just omit
>> ipb altogether.
>>
>> For pure energies, I don't think the value of ipb will make much of a
>> difference. If you're doing dynamics with PB, then the functional form of
>> the dielectric boundary matters since you're computing gradients. But if
>> you're just computing solvation free energies, I doubt it will have a very
>> noticeable effect (hopefully someone can correct me if I'm misunderstanding
>> this).
>>
>> HTH,
>> Jason
>>

-- 
Dr. Vlad Cojocaru
Computational Structural Biology Laboratory
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
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