Tutorials

The following pages describe how to perform a variety of tasks using PLUMED

Lugano tutorial: Brief guide to PLUMED syntax and analyzing trajectories This tutorial explains the syntax of the PLUMED input file and how to use PLUMED to analyze CVs
Lugano tutorial: Using restraints This tutorial explains how to use PLUMED to run simple restrained simulations and account for the bias in the analysis
Lugano tutorial: Metadynamics simulations with PLUMED This tutorial explains how to use PLUMED to run metadynamics simulations
Lugano tutorial: Calculating error bars Calculating error bars
Lugano tutorial: Dimensionality reduction How to perform dimensionality reduction using PLUMED
Lugano tutorial: Using PLUMED with LAMMPS An exercise on running PLUMED with LAMMPS
Lugano tutorial: Binding of a ion and a dinucleotide An exercise to compute binding free energies
Lugano tutorial: Computing proton transfer in water An exercise to run a simple proton transfer calculation with CP2K
Lugano tutorial: Folding free energy for a protein described by a go-model This tutorial propose a more complex case to test your own skill with a more realistic example
Using Hamiltonian replica exchange with GROMACS This tutorial explains how to use Hamiltonian replica exchange in GROMACS
Julich tutorial: Developing CVs in plumed Implementing new collective variables in plumed
ESDW Workshop Lyon 2019: A very simple introduction to PLUMED This tutorial gives a brief introduction to PLUMED by showing how it can be used to study a cluster of 7 Lennard Jones atoms.
MARVEL tutorial: Analyzing CVs This tutorial explains how to use PLUMED to analyze CVs
MARVEL tutorial: Path CVs This tutorial explains how to use various kinds of path collective variables
Munster tutorial A short 3 hours tutorial that introduces analysis, well-tempered metadynamics, and multiple-restraints umbrella sampling.
Optimizing PLUMED performance A short 1.5 hours tutorial that introduces performance optimization

In addition, the following websites contain resources that might be helpful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDvZmbWE5ps A short video introduction to the use of multicolvars in PLUMED 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxJP16qNCYs A short video introduction to the syntax of the PLUMED 2 input file
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadynamics A wikipedia article on metadynamics

Some older tutorials are also available here (some of them cover topics not covered by the recent tutorial but syntax may be outdated):