Tutorials

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

Belfast tutorial: Analyzing CVs	This tutorial explains how to use plumed to analyze CVs
Belfast tutorial: Adaptive variables I	How to use path CVs
Belfast tutorial: Adaptive variables II	Dimensionality reduction and sketch maps
Belfast tutorial: Umbrella sampling	Umbrella sampling, reweighting, and weighted histogram
Belfast tutorial: Out of equilibrium dynamics	How to run a steered MD simulations and how to estimate the free energy
Belfast tutorial: Metadynamics	How to run a metadynamics simulation
Belfast tutorial: Replica exchange I	Parallel tempering and Metadynamics, Well-Tempered Ensemble
Belfast tutorial: Replica exchange II and Multiple walkers	Bias exchange and multiple walkers
Belfast tutorial: NMR restraints	NMR restraints
Belfast tutorial: Steinhardt Parameters	Steinhardt Parameters
Cambridge tutorial	A short 2 hours tutorial that introduces Well-Tempered Metadynamics, Bias-Exchange Metadynamics and Replica-Average Metadynamics
Cineca tutorial	A short 2 hours tutorial that introduces analysis, well-tempered metadynamics, and multiple-restraints umbrella sampling.
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
Moving from PLUMED 1 to PLUMED 2	This tutorial explains how plumed 1 input files can be translated into the new plumed 2 syntax.
Munster tutorial	A short 3 hours tutorial that introduces analysis, well-tempered metadynamics, and multiple-restraints umbrella sampling.

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