2016-01-04 8:39 GMT-07:00 John Voorehes <[email protected]>:
> Thank you very much, Sikandar. Right now, we are only focusing on the short
> range coulombic interactions in a specified cutoff radius. In order to
> calculate the interaction can I define the coulombtype as User / does PME
> work for SR Coulombic interactions also?
No, for that you want to use
coulombtype              = PME-User
which uses short-ranged table together with long-range part of PME.

Christoph
>
> On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 10:31:08 PM UTC-6, sikandar wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Welcome to VOTCA user group.
>>
>> I understand your coarse-graining problem as follows. You have a reference
>> atomic system containing your research molecule. Then you choose a mapping
>> scheme such that the coarse-grained beads in a CG molecule have charges on
>> them and now you want to determine a CG non-bonded interactions between
>> these CG beads.
>>
>> So, in this case you can model your CG force field such that there are two
>> types of interactions between the CG beads: non-Coulombic short-range CG
>> potential + long-range Coulombic interactions. For the long-range Coulomb
>> forces you can use the methods such as PME and the non-Coulombic short-range
>> CG potential can be determined by one of the CG methods in VOTCA. For
>> example, assuming you are using GROMACS, to use the described CG force
>> field, the .mdp file options should be
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> coulombtype              = pme
>> vdw-type                 = User
>> .
>> .
>> .
>>
>> and the rest you can follow from the tutorials.
>>
>> I hope above suggestion helps.
>>
>> Best,
>> Sikandar
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:18 AM, John Voorehes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am a new to the VOTCA package. I want to use this package for the
>>> coarse-graining simulation of my research molecule. Unlike the tutorial
>>> molecules, the beads for my molecule has charges. So, my question is, does
>>> the non-bonded interactions between two beads include Coulombic interactions
>>> too or is it just LJ potential/VDW? Are there any ways I can have coulombic
>>> interaction only?
>>>
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