Table of Contents

Ref: http://ambermd.org/doc12/Amber18.pdf, Page 320

Basic and Input/Output

Calculation Type
name default description
imin 0 0: No minization
1: Energy minimization
5: Read in a trajectory for analysis
nmropt 0 0: No NMR optimization
1: NMR restraints, weight changes
2: NMR restraints, weight changes, NOE vol, CS, RDC
Input
name default description
ntx 1 1: Only read coordinates
5: Coordinates; Box information(ntb>0); velocities(irest=1)
irest 0 0: New simulation
1: Restart the simulation, read saved restart file(ntx>=4)
Output
name default description
ntxo 2 1: Output as text file
2: Output as bindary NetCDF file
ntpr 50 Step to print energy information as “mdout” and “mdinfo” file
ntwx 0 Step to write coordinates to the “mdcrd” file, no coordinate trajectory(ntwx=0)
ntwprt 0 0: Include all atoms when writing trajectories
>0: Include only atoms 1 to ntwprt
idecomp 0 0: Don't decompose energies
1: Decompose on a per-residue basis; 1-4 EEL + 1-4 VDW are added to internal (bond, angle, dihedral) energies
2: Decompose on a per-residue basis; 1-4 EEL + 1-4 VDW are added to EEL and VDW
3: Decompose on a pairwise per-residue basis; otherwise equivalent to idecomp = 1. Not available in TI simulations
4: Decompose on a pairwise per-residue basis; otherwise equivalent to idecomp = 2. Not available in TI simulations

Restraints and Energy minimization

Frozen or Restrained atoms
name default description
ntr 0 >0: Atoms strained by a harmonic potential in Cartesian space
restraint_wt The weight (in kcal/mol −Å2) for the positional restraints
restraintmask String that specifies the restrained atoms when ntr=1
Energy minimization
name default description
maxcyc 1 The maximum number of cycles of minimization
ntmin 1 0: Full conjugate gradient minimization
1: NCYC cycles(default 10) of steepest descent, then switch to conjugate gradient
2: Only the steepest descent method
3: XMIN method
4: LMOD method
dx0 0.01 The initial step length

Dynamics Simulation

Molecular dynamics
name default description
nstlim 1 Number of MD-steps to be performed
ntmin 1 0: Full conjugate gradient minimization
1: NCYC cycles(default 10) of steepest descent, then switch to conjugate gradient
2: Only the steepest descent method
3: XMIN method
4: LMOD method
dx0 0.01 The initial step length
dt 0.001 Recommended MAXIMUM is .002 if SHAKE is used, or .001 if it isn’t
Temperature regulation
name default description
ntt
temp0
tautp
gamma_ln
vlimit
Pressure regulation
name default description
ntp
barostat
pres0
taup
vlimit