steer

Specifies parameters for steered MD to bring C-termini close to their connection points

Single-valued attributes:

  • cpu-override: Override namd3 processor type since GPUresident namd3 cannot handle restraints (yet) (default: True)

  • ensemble: Name of ensemble to run in; note that NPT can only be performed on a solvated system (default: NVT)

  • force_constant: force constant (kcal/mol/Angstrom^2) (default: 20)

  • target_distance: distance (Angstrom) between carbonyl carbon of loop C-terminus and amide nitrogen of connecting residue that steered MD drives to (default: 2)

  • nsteps: number of MD time steps for steeering (default: 1000)

  • dcdfreq: number of time steps between configuration output to DCD file (default: 100)

  • xstfreq: number of time steps between cell size output to DCD file (only used if ensemble is NPT) (default: 100)

  • temperature: Temperature used in steered MD run (default: 300)

  • pressure: Pressure used in steered MD run (only used if ensemble is NPT) (default: 1)

  • receiver_flexible_zone_radius: size of zone around receiver N-terminal N in which CA’s are not fixed during steered MD (default: 0.0)

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