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LSDMap
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LSDMap package is used to compute Locally Scaled Diffusion Map.
Typical usage is to call the "lsdmap" script:

lsdmap -f <configuration_file> -c <structure_file> <other_options>

or using MPI:

mpiexec -n <number_of_processors> lsdmap -f <configuration_file> -c <structure_file> <other_options>

A typical example of configuration file is ./examples/lsdmap/config.ini
The structure file should contain all the configurations needed to compute
LSDMap. After execution of the script, a .ev and a .eg file should have
been generated containing the eigenvectors and eigenvalues, respectively.

See the paper W. Zheng, M. A. Rohrdanz, M. Maggioni and C. Clementi, J. Chem. Phys., 2011, 134, 144109 for more information on how LSDMap works.

Installation
------------

The install with pip is following:

pip install numpy
pip install Cython
pip install lsdmap

An alternative installation is:
1. First, make sure that you have NumPy, SciPy, mpi4py and cython
installed. If not, get them from http://numpy.scipy.org/,
http://mpi4py.scipy.org/, http://cython.org/. Compile/install them.

2. From the main lsdmap distribution directory run this command
(plus any extra flags, e.g., --prefix or --user to specify the
installation directory):

python setup.py install

After installation, make sure that the folder bin inside your installation
directory is included in your PATH. It contains the executable "lsdmap"
that is used to compute LSDMap.
Tests can be run in the folder examples/lsdmap. This folder contains the structure file aladip_1000.gro
which contains 1000 configurations of alanine dipeptide in vacuum and
an example of configuration file (.ini) that should be used to compute
LSDMap. To test the program, simply type in this folder:

lsdmap -f config.ini -c aladip_1000.gro

After execution, a file ".ev" and a file ".eg" must have been generated.
They contain the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the Fokker-Planck operator,
respectively. In the file ".ev", the first column corresponds to the values
of the first eigenvector (largest eigenvalue), the second column corresponds
to the values of the second one, and so on. The first line corresponds to
the values of the eigenvectors for the first configuration given in the
structure file, the second line corresponds to the second configuration,
and so on.

LSDMap can be computed using MPI using a command similar to:

mpiexec -n <number_of_processors> lsdmap -f <configuration_file> -c <structure_file>

For more information on lsdmap command, simply type:

lsdmap -h



DM-d-MD
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DM-d-MD (Diffusion-Map directed Molecular Dynamics) is an adaptive sampling
algorithm based on LSDMap. For an introduction to DM-d-MD, see the paper
J.Preto and C. Clementi, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014, 16, 19181-19191.

Besides LSDMap, DM-d-MD requires GROMACS to be correctly installed.

DM-d-MD is automatically installed when installing LSDMap via the command:

python setup.py install

A typical usage of DM-d-MD is to call:

dmdmd -f <configuration_file>


Prerequisites
-------------

In order to use DM-d-MD, it is required that GROMACS has been correctly
installed and that "grompp" and "mdrun" commands are working properly
for a serial utilization. If not, please visit http://www.gromacs.org/.


Testing
-------

The Folder examples/dmdmd contains an example of DM-d-MD configuration
file (dmdmd.ini) as well as files required to run GROMACS MD simulations
for the photoactive yellow protein (PYP). DM-d-MD can be launched by
executing the command:

dmdmd -f dmdmd.ini

within the specified folder.


Diffusion-Map Sampling
======================

DMap Sampling (Diffusion Map Sampling) is our most recent adaptive sampling
algorithm. It combines LSDMap and techniques from Umbrella Sampling, metadynamics
to offer the best way of exploring configuration spaces of macromolecular
systems and estimating their free energy landscapes.

DMap Sampling consists in conducting biased Molecular Dynamics simulations (MD)
where the biased potential is a local estimate of the free energy of the
system along Diffusion Map coordinates. Since DMap coordinates are associated
with slow time scales of MD simulations, it becomes easier to explore a wider
region of the configuration space without remaining in local minima. To run
the biased MD, an appropriate modified version of GROMACS is needed. To install
it, see the paragraph Installation below.


Installation
------------

In order to use DMap sampling, one should meet the following requirements:

1. Installing the LSDMap package from the 'dmaps' branch, i.e., by first using:

git checkout dmaps

then installing the lsdmap package using

python setup.py install

Note that this version of LSDMap requires a shared ".so" library of python.
This library can be generated during the installation of python by using the
option "--enable-shared" when configuring python:

./configure --enable-shared ...

2. Installing the modified (serial, simple precision) version of GROMACS. The
package can be git-cloned using the following command:

git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/dmaps-gromacs/code dmaps-gromacs-code

Note that the package contains a modified version of GROMACS 4.6.1. Once cloned,
follow the following steps to install the package:

a. Create the GROMACS Makefile. The modified version of GROMACS should
be configured similarly to the standard version of GROMACS 4.6, with
single precision and GPU and MPI options disabled. Please refer to
http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Installation_Instructions_4.6
for more information on how to build GROMACS. A typical way of
configuring our modified version of GROMACS could be the following
once the installation directory has been git cloned:

cd dmaps-gromacs-code
mkdir cmake-build
cd cmake-build
cmake .. -DGMX_BUILD_OWN_FFTW=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/local/directory -DGMX_GPU=OFF -DGMX_MPI=OFF

Beware that the above commands is a simple example. Some machines may
require additional options to have GROMACS work properly. Again, refer
to the GROMACS webpage above for more information.

b. Before installing GROMACS, link the DMap Sampling library to it.
Before using make or make install, you should tell GROMACS that it should
consider a library called libdms.so at the compilation. The library
was created when the LSDMap package was installed. First, you
should find the location of this particular library. If the installation
of LSDMap went properly, the corresponding path should be
/path/to/site-packages/lsdmap/dmaps/critical/libdms.so, where
path/to/site-packages is the path to the python "site-packages" folder where
LSDMap has been installed. Then, starting from the folder
dmaps-gromacs-code that was git cloned earlier, you should edit the file
src/kernel/CMakeLists.txt. At line 78 in this file, "path/to/libdms.so" in
"set(LIBDMS path/to/libdms.so)" should be modified to correspond to the
absolute path to the library "libdms.so" that you found.

c. Compile GROMACS by typing (from the folder cmake-build that was created in
step a):

make install

Testing
-------

To run Diffusion Map Sampling, use the following command from the examples/dmaps
directory:

dmaps -f settings

As the job progresses, logging messages will be written to the console.
If Diffusion Map Sampling finished correclty it should have created 3 folders,
corresponding to the first three iterations of the DMap Sampling procedure (in
the file settings, niters=3 by default), called iterX, where X is the number
of the iteration.

To analyze the results of a particular iteration, go inside the corresponding
"iter" folder. From there, you can use the script phipsi.sh which is located in
the parent directory, by typing:

../phipsi.sh

This will compute collective variables that are commonly used to analyze results
of the system tested here, alanine dipeptide. A bunch of python scripts are available
in the folder examples/dmaps/scripts to plot specific figures. For example, the
file examples/dmaps/scripts/plotfephipsi.py can be used to plot the free energy
landscape as a a function of the coordinates phi and psi computed after running
the script phipsi.sh. From the same "iter" folder, using:

python ../scripts/plotfephipsi.py

will plot the desired figure. Note that it requires the modules matplotlib and
densplot to be installed on the local host. The former can be downloaded from
http://matplotlib.org/, whereas the latter can be git cloned
from https://github.com/jp43/densplot and installed the usual way using

python setup.py install

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