For anyone interested, the problem is that chamber was not converting the improper torsions to radians. The original documentation was a bit misleading, and since the vast majority of all improper phase shifts are 0, this was not caught before.
All the best,
Jason
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> On Nov 18, 2016, at 5:39 PM, Marc van der Kamp <marcvanderkamp.gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Many thanks for looking into it, Jason.
> Much appreciated!
> Marc
>
>> On 18 Nov 2016 7:45 p.m., "Jason Swails" <jason.swails.gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There is definitely something wrong with the improper torsions... I am
>> looking into it and will fix it sometime this weekend. I will post updates
>> to the github issue as I find stuff.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Marc van der Kamp <
>> marcvanderkamp.gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I have run into a curious problem when performing minimization with a FAD
>>> co-factor, based on a Parmed-generated chamber prmtop.
>>>
>>> Initially, a .psf file was generated with VMD's psfgen using CHARMM-style
>>> parameters for FAD.
>>> I confirmed that minimization with NAMD of FAD in vacuum, using the .psf
>>> and .pdb file is ok.
>>> (see min_namd.pdb attached).
>>>
>>> Then I convert this psf and pdb with Parmed's chamber action (parmed
>>> version 2.4.0 from AmberTools16):
>>>
>>> chamber -top top_all36_prot.rtf -top top_all36_na.rtf -top
>>> top_all36_cgenff.rtf -top jp4061522_si_002_mod.txt -param
>>> par_all36_prot.prm -param par_all36_cgenff.prm -param
>> par_all36_lipid.prm
>>> -param jp4061522_si_003_mod.txt -str toppar_water_ions.str -psf
>>> test_fad.psf -crd test_fad.pdb -box bounding
>>>
>>> parmout test_fad.prmtop test_fad.rst
>>>
>>> However, when I perform minimization with sander using the resulting
>>> test_fad.prmtop and test_fad.rst files, something curious happens:
>>> The central structure in the flavine ring distorts in a strange way - In
>>> particular, C6A and C4A appear to exchange position, and both the
>>> configuration around N5 and N10 is distorted.
>>> (see min_test.pdb)
>>>
>>> I've checked what parmed reports for the bonds of these atoms, and this
>> is
>>> all as expected.
>>>
>>> Is this some strange bug in the writing of the prmtop?
>>> I'm attaching an archive that contains the files required to run the
>> above
>>> Parmed-command.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance for looking into this!
>>> Marc
>>>
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