that's a good idea to just do a single energy calculations on the structures minimized by the other program although i am already cringing at the thought of file formatting. is there an elegant way of just doing an energy calculations in gromacs? the only way i can think of right now is by setting the nstep = 0 in the em.mdp.

thank you for your help.

rob


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rob yang wrote:
hi list,
i am comparing the relative energy differences between different conformations of a same molecule in vaccuum. i am using both gromacs and another software to compare the results. the forcefield for both softwares is oplsaa (2001), and i've manually verified that they are indeed the same for my molecule as well as the partial charges. the relative energy results obtained from these 2 softwares are different. i understand that different softwares have different implementations but i think i should be able to get a similiar relative energies for these conformations.
so i am thinking maybe the minimizations is where things went wrong.

Have you looked at the resulting structures to see if you are comparing the same states? Watching the minimization "trajectories" will help you assess what differences there may be. Ordinarily I would pick a structure minimized with one program and then just do an energy calculation on the other, if I wanted to do this sort of calculation. It's quite similar to what quantum chemists do all the time - get geometries at one "level of theory" and then calculate energies at another more expensive one whose cost is prohibitive for optimization.

i have compiled the double version of mdrun. but i didn't for grompp since i didn't think it was necessary. the question i have for you guys is then: is the double version of grompp also necessary?

I doubt single/double mdrun will matter to you for geometry optimization. I don't know if double grompp is necessary to make double mdrun effective - my guess would be not necessary.

what other insights do you guys have to the differences? thank you very much. i'll also present the em.mdp i used below:

It looks unremarkable.

Mark
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