That sounds like what I was hinting at: from what I understand, you're
simulating a single protein, not a pure liquid of stuff. So your RDF
will never go to 1 because there won't be anything at large distances.
Is that the case? If so, more iterations and/or better initial guesses
won't cut it.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:09 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]>:
>> > 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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