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Units in geometric flow examples

Open sobolevnrm opened this issue 7 years ago • 4 comments

Are the units in the geometric flow examples really kcal/mol/A^n? They should be kJ/mol/A^n.

sobolevnrm avatar Jun 26 '17 22:06 sobolevnrm

Those files hail back to at least Andrew, and possibly from the Fortran code/paper (with Dennis, et. al.). I'll have to dig in to verify the latter.

keith923 avatar Jun 26 '17 22:06 keith923

I'm not trying to assert that the example is correct. Only that the value there appears to have come from Parameterization of a geometric flow implicit solvation model.

The Calculation procedure section states:

For each force-field and solute dielectric coefficient value, we calculated the root mean square error (χ) between the experimental (ΔGexpt) and calculated (ΔGcalc) solvation free energies for the entire 17 molecule set in the pressure-surface tension (p-γ) parameter space. A grid-based parameter optimization was performed over a range that generally included p values from 10−4 to approximately 0.1 kcal/(mol·Å3) and γ values from 10−5 to approximately 0.1 kcal/(mol·Å2). The exact ranges of values and search increments used to explore the p-γ parameter space for each force-field are summarized in Supporting Information Table S1 for ϵs = 1. We denote the minimum value of χ in the p-γ parameter space as χmin. Therefore, the (p,γ) point at which χ = χmin, corresponds to the optimal values of pressure, popt, and surface tension, γopt.

keith923 avatar Jun 26 '17 23:06 keith923

Same values as the paper as well? Regardless, we should switch to kJ for consistency with the rest of APBS.

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Keith T. Star [email protected] wrote:

I'm not trying to assert that the example is correct. Only that the value there appears to have come from Parameterization of a geometric flow implicit solvation model.

The Calculation procedure section states:

For each force-field and solute dielectric coefficient value, we calculated the root mean square error (χ) between the experimental (ΔGexpt) and calculated (ΔGcalc) solvation free energies for the entire 17 molecule set in the pressure-surface tension (p-γ) parameter space. A grid-based parameter optimization was performed over a range that generally included p values from 10−4 to approximately 0.1 kcal/(mol·Å3) and γ values from 10−5 to approximately 0.1 kcal/(mol·Å2). The exact ranges of values and search increments used to explore the p-γ parameter space for each force-field are summarized in Supporting Information Table S1 for ϵs = 1. We denote the minimum value of χ in the p-γ parameter space as χmin. Therefore, the (p,γ) point at which χ = χmin, corresponds to the optimal values of pressure, popt, and surface tension, γopt.

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sobolevnrm avatar Jun 27 '17 00:06 sobolevnrm

@mvaliev -- another geometric flow issue; would you take this?

sobolevnrm avatar Apr 19 '20 14:04 sobolevnrm