{"id":2482,"date":"2023-09-19T18:43:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T22:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/?page_id=2482"},"modified":"2023-10-11T19:05:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T23:05:12","slug":"tutorial","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/resources\/gamd\/tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"GaMD-Amber: Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"body\" align=\"justify\">Alanine Dipeptide<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1385\/2023\/09\/dia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1385\/2023\/09\/dia-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"dia\" width=\"600\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1385\/2023\/09\/dia-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1385\/2023\/09\/dia-768x354.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1385\/2023\/09\/dia-600x277.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1385\/2023\/09\/dia.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"body\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1385\/2023\/09\/GaMD_Amber-Tutorial-opt.pdf\">Download a PDF tutorial of running GaMD simulations on alanine dipeptide.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\" align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/miaolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1385\/2023\/09\/amber-gamd-tutorial.zip\">Download Source files of the GaMD-Amber tutorial<\/a> (31.8MB zip file)<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\" align=\"justify\">\u00a0<strong>Note: While the NVT ensemble has been used in the tutorial simulations with &#8220;ntb=1&#8221;, the NPT ensemble is generally preferred for running GaMD simulations (especially for the GaMD equilibration) with parameters like &#8220;ntb = 2, ntp = 1, barostat = 1&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\" align=\"justify\"><strong>Example input parameters for running GaMD in Amber: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\" align=\"justify\"><span class=\"body\"> In case you are running GaMD simulation on a computer cluster that imposes wallclock limit for simulation jobs, you may divide your long simulation into multiple jobs, which could include for example job #1 for 2 ns conventional MD (cMD) and 50 ns GaMD equilibration, job #2 for starting GaMD production simulation with radomized atomic velocities, and job #3 for extending GaMD production simulation until the end:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"body\">Job #1: cMD and GaMD equilibration<\/h3>\n<p>nstlim = 26000000,<br \/>\n<em><strong>irest = 0,<br \/>\nntx = 1,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>igamd = 3, iE = 1, irest_gamd = 0,<br \/>\nntcmd = 1000000, nteb = 25000000, ntave = 200000,<br \/>\nntcmdprep = 200000, ntebprep = 800000,<br \/>\nsigma0P = 6.0, sigma0D = 6.0, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Job #2: start GaMD production simulation<\/h3>\n<p>nstlim = 50000000,<br \/>\n<em><strong>irest = 0,<br \/>\nntx = 1,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>igamd = 3, iE = 1, irest_gamd = 1,<br \/>\nntcmd = 0, nteb = 0, ntave = 200000,<br \/>\nntcmdprep = 0, ntebprep = 0,<br \/>\nsigma0P = 6.0, sigma0D = 6.0,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"body\">Job #3: repeat running jobs using this input file until end of your GaMD production simulation<\/h3>\n<p>nstlim = 50000000,<br \/>\n<em><strong>irest = 1,<br \/>\nntx = 5,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>igamd = 3, iE = 1, irest_gamd = 1,<br \/>\nntcmd = 0, nteb = 0, ntave = 200000,<br \/>\nntcmdprep = 0, ntebprep = 0,<br \/>\nsigma0P = 6.0, sigma0D = 6.0,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"body\">Note: You can also perform multiple independent GaMD simulations with randomized atomic velocities by repeating jobs #2 and #3.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">LiGaMD in Amber<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body\" align=\"justify\">Example input parameters used in dual-boost LiGaMD simulations include the following in addition to those used in conventional MD:<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\" align=\"justify\"><strong><em> igamd = 11, irest_gamd = 0,<br \/>\nntcmd = 700000, nteb = 27300000, ntave = 140000,<br \/>\nntcmdprep = 280000, ntebprep = 280000,<br \/>\nsigma0P = 4.0, sigma0D = 6.0, iEP = 2, iED=1,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>icfe = 1, ifsc = 1, gti_cpu_output = 0, gti_add_sc = 1,<br \/>\ntimask1 = &#8216;:225&#8217;, scmask1 = &#8216;:225&#8217;,<br \/>\ntimask2 = &#8221;, scmask2 = &#8221;,<\/p>\n<p>ibblig = 1, nlig = 10, atom_p = 2472, atom_l = 4, dblig = 3.7,<\/p>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<p><strong><em> igamd = 11, irest_gamd = 0,<br \/>\nntcmd = 700000, nteb = 27300000, ntave = 140000,<br \/>\nntcmdprep = 280000, ntebprep = 280000,<br \/>\nsigma0P = 4.0, sigma0D = 6.0, iEP = 2, iED=1,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>icfe = 1, ifsc = 1, gti_cpu_output = 0, gti_add_sc = 1,<br \/>\ntimask1 = &#8216;:225&#8217;, scmask1 = &#8216;:225&#8217;,<br \/>\ntimask2 = &#8221;, scmask2 = &#8221;,<\/p>\n<p>ibblig = 2, nlig = 10, atom_l = 4,<br \/>\nntmsd = 50000, nftau = 10, dblig = 20,<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">Pep-GaMD in Amber<\/h2>\n<p class=\"body\" align=\"justify\">Example input parameters used in Pep-GaMD simulations include the following in addition to those used in conventional MD:<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\" align=\"justify\"><strong><em><br \/>\nigamd = 15, iE = 1, iEP = 1, iED = 1, irest_gamd = 0,<br \/>\nntcmd = 1000000, nteb = 1000000, ntave = 50000,<br \/>\nntcmdprep = 200000, ntebprep = 200000,<br \/>\nsigma0P = 6.0, sigma0D = 6.0,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>icfe = 1, ifsc = 1, gti_cpu_output = 0, gti_add_sc = 1,<br \/>\ntimask1 = &#8216;:225&#8217;, scmask1 = &#8216;:225&#8217;,<br \/>\ntimask2 = &#8221;, scmask2 = &#8221;,<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">PPI-GaMD in Amber<\/h2>\n<p>Example input parameters used in PPI-GaMD_Dual simulations include the following in addition to those used in conventional MD:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 igamd = 17, iEP = 2, iED = 1, irest_gamd = 0,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0 ntcmd = 1000000, nteb = 1000000, ntave = 50000,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0 ntcmdprep = 200000, ntebprep = 200000,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0 sigma0P = 6.0, sigma0D = 6.0,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>icfe = 1, ifsc = 1, gti_cpu_output = 0,gti_add_sc = 1,<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>timask1 = &#8216;:1-110&#8217;, scmask1 = &#8216;:1-110&#8217;,<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>timask2 = &#8221;, scmask2 = &#8221;,<br 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