Thank you for this. For heterogenous system RDF does not go to 1 but to 0. 
In this case I guess I need thousands of iterations... The system input are 
15 potentials which makes it so complicated.

Steven

W dniu poniedziałek, 15 lipca 2013 17:44:46 UTC+1 użytkownik Christoph 
Junghans napisał:
>
> 2013/7/15  <[email protected] <javascript:>>: 
> > Votca is definitely wrong. If you take the example of maximum of my 
> > ACI-ACI.dist.tgt the maximum corresponds to 65.555. The potential at 
> this 
> > point should be: W = -2.49435*ln(65.55) = -10.433 and in my 
> ACI-ACI.dist.pot 
> > the value corresponds to -16.1 - it is a huge difference and that is why 
> my 
> > further distributions are so huge.... 
> No, Votca is 100% correct, and does what it is supposed to do. 
>
> First, have a look at your ACI-ACI.dist.tgt again, this distribution 
> doesn't go to one hence the potential doesn't go to 0 for large r. 
> And that is mainly the reason why VOTCA cannot handle it, 
> ACI-ACI.dist.tgt is not a common rdf! 
> You will have to provide an initial guess (pot.in) to make it work. 
> (Please also read my email from July 10th again.) 
>
> Second, VOTCA does exactly what it is supposed to do. Go into gnuplot and 
> run: 
> p [0:3][-20:5] "ACI-ACI.dist.tgt" u 1:(-2.49435*log($2)-5.7) w l, 
> "ACI-ACI.pot.cur" w l 
> Except for some small deviations, which come from the cubic spline 
> interpolation, there is no difference in the curves. 
> As Victor said before, VOTCA shifts the potential to be zero at the 
> cutoff -> -10.433 - 5.7 = -16.1. This shift of 5.7 makes no difference 
> for the thermodynamics however. 
>
> Third, even pot.new is correct. Run 
> $ paste ACI-ACI.dist.new <(sed '/^#/d' ACI-ACI.dist.tgt) <(sed '/^#/d' 
> ACI-ACI.pot.cur) > ACI-ACI.temp 
> to generate a temp file. 
> And go into gnuplot and plot: 
> p [0:3][-20:5] "ACI-ACI.temp" u 1:(2.49435*log($2/$5)+$8-16.1) w l, 
> "ACI-ACI.pot.new" w l 
> There is basically no difference in the curves. 
>
> Conclusion: 
> - check your distributions again 
> - provide pot.in for the interaction, which don't have a "common" rdf 
> (meaning which doesn't go to 1) 
>
> Christoph 
>
>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > W dniu poniedziałek, 15 lipca 2013 12:59:40 UTC+1 użytkownik 
> > [email protected] napisał: 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> W dniu poniedziałek, 15 lipca 2013 12:42:37 UTC+1 użytkownik Victor 
> Rühle 
> >> napisał: 
> >>> 
> >>> Dear Steven, 
> >>> 
> >>> provided the same kBT was used, I can think of two issues which might 
> >>> lead to these differences 
> >>> 
> >>> 1) votca can shift the potential, but the shape should match. That can 
> in 
> >>> particular happen if you cut the rdf in a region where there are still 
> >>> modulations. 
> >>> 2) What type of potential are you lookin at? For bonds and angles, 
> there 
> >>> is indeed a normalization necessary, see 
> >>> 
> >>> http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1521-4044(199802)49:2/3
> <61::AID-APOL61>3.0.CO;2-V 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Thank you. I am looking at the nonbonded interactions only. The shape 
> of 
> >> the potential matches but the minima is lower than from my calulation. 
> There 
> >> is no normalization for non bonded so this is weird. I cut it at the 
> >> begining as there were very small values and Votca was not able to 
> >> extrapolate it properly. 
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Your second point indeed sounds a bit weired. Could you please post 
> these 
> >>> few curves to help debugging (i.e. the <name>.pot.cur, <name>.pot.new 
> >>> <name>.dist.tgt <name>.dist.new of the iteration 1 folder)? 
> >>> 
> >>> Victor 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Please, see attached. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 2013/7/15 <[email protected]> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Dear Votca Users, 
> >>>> 
> >>>> I have to issues with IBI: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 1) I took one my ditributions and calculated on my own potential W= 
> -kBT 
> >>>> ln(RDF) and I got different potential than Votca provide me. For 
> instance 
> >>>> lets calculate the potential minimum for the distribution maximum of 
> 162. 
> >>>> Pot = -.249435*ln(164) = -12.69. The minimum of Votca potential 
> corresponds 
> >>>> to approximately -16 kJ/mol. Where I missed something? is it somehow 
> >>>> normalized? 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 2) After 1st iteration my distribution was much higher than the 
> target 
> >>>> one so I guess the potential should decrease but apparently the new 
> >>>> potential has deeper minima so the next distribution has a even higer 
> >>>> distribution. Could anyone please explain me this? 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Steven 
> >>>> 
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