A simple and fast tool for forward mapping trajectories and computing interactions. Atomistic trajectories can be forward mapped from mapping files that correspond to backwards mapping style format. Interactions are computed from itp files automatically creating the time-series and distribution. Note that we use the numba library for paralell acceleration.

• residue based mapping description
• residues can be renamed
• partial residues can be mapped
• hydrogen of united-atom models can be reconstructed
• interactions are computed from itp files
• interactions can be computed for multiple molecules
• interactions are grouped by comments

git clone https://github.com/fgrunewald/fast_forward.git

cd fast-forward

pip install ./

The following is an examplatory command for mapping trajectories.

ff_map -f <.trr/.xtc/.gro/.pdb> -m <.mapping> -s <.tpr> -o <.xtc> -mols <molecule names>

Note that the molecule names need to correspond to the [moleculetype] entries in the itp files of the molecules that are to be mapped. Mapping files are written per resiude and follow the backwards style mapping file format.

[ molecule ]
<resnameAA> <resnameCG>
[ martini ]
<list of Martini beads>
[ atoms ]
     1     <atomname AA> <bead CG> <bead CG>

For example, the Martini3 mapping file for Alanine not including the hydrogens would look as follows and maps from the CHARMM force-field:

[ molecule ]
ALA ALA
[ martini ]
BB
[ atoms ]
    1     N    BB
    2    HN    BB
    3    CA    BB
    5    CB    BB
    9     C    BB
   10     O    BB

The Martini3 model is based on center of geometry mappings, for which it is important to include the hydrogen atoms. However, certain atomistic united-atom models have no explicit hydrogen atoms. In oder to still obtain good bonded interactions fast_forward can reconstruct the hydrogen atoms using geometric rules. The only input required is a list of atom-types and weather they correspond to CH, CH2, CH3 or double bonded CH group (CHd).

The algorithm is directly taken from the buildH package. If you use this feauture please cite https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.03521.

An example for POPC can be found in the example folder, where a CHARMM36m POPC was stripped of all hydrogen and mapped with reconstrucion.

Note the reconstruction only affects the mapping, atomistic coordinates with hydrogen are not written out.

Interactions can be computed from one or multiple itp files. The molecule name is simply matched to those found in the tpr and trajectory file and then the interactions are computed for all commented interactions. For example, from the following entry the first two bonds are put in a group and computed together and the last bond is skipped.

[ bonds ]
1 2 1 2000 ; group1
2 3 1 2000 ; group1
4 5 1 1000

The command looks as follows:

ff_inter -f <.trr/.xtc/.gro/.pdb> -i <.itp> -s <.tpr> -pref <prefix>