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Hamiltonian replica-exchange in GROMACS: a flexible implementation

Computational Physics 2014-09-30 v1 Statistical Mechanics Biological Physics Chemical Physics

Abstract

A simple and general implementation of Hamiltonian replica exchange for the popular molecular-dynamics software GROMACS is presented. In this implementation, arbitrarily different Hamiltonians can be used for the different replicas without incurring in any significant performance penalty. The implementation was validated on a simple toy model - alanine dipeptide in water - and applied to study the rearrangement of an RNA tetraloop, where it was used to compare recently proposed force-field corrections.

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@article{arxiv.1307.5144,
  title  = {Hamiltonian replica-exchange in GROMACS: a flexible implementation},
  author = {Giovanni Bussi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.5144},
  year   = {2014}
}

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To appear on Molecular Physics

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