Hi,

I don't know.
I have not understood what you want to do.
On the physical level, there is no distinction between intra-molecular bonded
and non-bonded interactions. So this makes me suspect that what you are
trying to do is incorrect, independently of if you remove the 1-4's or not.

Berk

Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:40:08 -0800
From: resa...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Exclusions in topology file seem not working for big   
systems
To: gmx-users@gromacs.org



Thank you very much Dr Hess.

Then I guess I have to test my rerun workaround that I mentioned for my system. 

About 1-4 interactions in general, could you a little bit about 1-4 energies 
while using exclusions please? I hope I am not missing something obvious. The 
main thing that I am not sure about is if I want to exclude all non-bonding 
interactions inside a small molecule, do I need to remove [pairs] when adding 
the [exclusions]? I am using OPLSAA.

Regards,
Reza Salari

From: Berk Hess <g...@hotmail.com>
To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users@gromacs.org>
Sent: Thu, December 3, 2009 12:06:53 PM
Subject: RE: [gmx-users] Exclusions in topology file seem not working for big 
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Hi,

I think that for your problem the couple option is not useful.
It does exactly the opposite. I removes all interactions of the selected 
molecule type with the rest of the system
and transform all interactions within the molecule by "vacuum" non-cutoff LJ 
and Coulomb interactions.
(which end up in special 1-4 energy terms).

Berk

Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:59:12 -0800
From: resa...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Exclusions in topology file seem not working for big   
systems
To: gmx-users@gromacs.org



Thanks Dr Hess.

I didn't get an error message when using grompp, then I think I didn't have too 
many exclusions.

I didn't know about using couple_type in this context before. If I get it 
correctly, if I want to exclude all non-bonding interactions inside a protein 
using couple_type, I must define it as follows in each mdp file for each 
lambda: (I need to decouple all the non-bonding intra molecular interactions 
for each lambdas):

couple_moltype=protein
couple_lambda0=none
couple_lambda1=none
couple-intramol=none

If this is right, I will test it for my system which has ~7000 protein atoms. 
BTW I am still a little confused about the reported 1-4 energies while using 
exclusions, could you please explain this?. For my smaller system I got zero SR 
but non-zero 1-4
 energies, even that the interactions between all the atoms were excluded. If I 
remove the pairs in topology file I would get no 1-4 term along with a 
different dV/dl value. So does it mean if I want to exclude all the 
intramolecular interactions I have to remove pairs? (my system is frozen and 
therefore I am not worried about the conformational change of the protein and 
also I am mainly interested in dV/dl values, which in this case is related to 
the electrostatic interaction of a residue with water as the charges on that 
residue being turned off).

Regards,
Reza Salari



From: Berk Hess <g...@hotmail.com>
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 GROMACS users <gmx-users@gromacs.org>
Sent: Thu, December 3, 2009 3:30:27 AM
Subject: RE: [gmx-users] Exclusions in topology file seem not working for big 
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Hi,

If you really had too many exclusions you would get an error message.

So I just tested this.
I used the couple_moltype option to couple a 389 atom protein.
This generates exclusions between each protein atom and the 388 others.
All interactions are excluded correctly (and re-added as special 1-4's because
of the couple option).
So I don't understand what is going wrong in your case.

Berk

Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 09:31:03 -0800
From: resa...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Exclusions in topology file seem not working for big   
systems
To: gmx-users@gromacs.org



Thanks for your response Dr van der Spoel.

Then there is a  limit on the number of atoms that can be defined in the 
exclusions section. My smaller system has 60 atoms and I used exclusions 
successfully for that, so I guess the limit might be a little more than 32.

Regarding the use of  energygrp_excl,it seems it does not work with PME. If I 
define the protein in the energygrp_excl group, grompp gives me this warning:
Can not exclude the lattice Coulomb energy between energy

 groups

  Which I think means some of electrostatics is not going to be excluded 
between protein atoms. Is there a workaround for this? I think my last resort 
would be to run a simulation first with PME and without exclusions, and then 
rerunning it but this time by defining protein in the energygrp_excl  and using 
cut-off instead of PME. Then I guess I will be left with only protein-water 
interactions.

Regards,
Reza Salari


From: David van der Spoel <sp...@xray.bmc.uu.se>
To: Discussion list for GROMACS users
 <gmx-users@gromacs.org>
Sent: Wed, December 2, 2009 11:59:49 AM
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Exclusions in topology file seem not working for big 
systems


Reza Salari wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I seem to have a hard time to use exclusions in topology file. I have a 
> relatively big system (~400 aa) that I am trying to calculate the difference 
> in desolvation energy (dA) upon turning off charges on a specific residue 
> using thermodynamics integration method. The system is a complex of two 
> proteins and is frozen inside the box (for my project I need it to be 
> frozen).ยจ

You can have max 32 exclusions per atom AFAIK.
However you can use energy_group_excluisions in the mdp file.
> 
> To calculate the desolvation energy, I need to exclude all the non-bonding 
> interactions among protein atoms, then the dA that I get corresponds to the 
> desolvation energy (and doesn't include the lost interactions between mutated 
> residue and the rest of protein). I couldn't use energygrp_excl in mdp file 
> since I am using PME.  So I defined exclusions in topology file as follows 
> (three-dot means
 that numbers continue to the last number):
> 
> [ exclusions]
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 6420
> 2 1 3 4 5 6 ... 6420
> 3 1 2 4 5 6 ... 6420
> ...
> ...
> 6420 1 2 3 ... 6419
> 
> I used gmxdump to check that the exclusions were actually implemented, and it 
> seems that they were.
> 
> However when I use g_energy, I don't get zero energy for short range 
> interactions. Here are the results of g_energy for simulations with and 
> without exclusions:
> 
>                    Coul-SR:Protein-Protein   LJ-SR:Protein-Protein     
> Coul-14:Protein-Protein     LJ-14:Protein-Protein
> no exclusions                -20277.6                                         
>     
       -13030.7                                                    37023.9      
                                                  7890.52
> using exclusions        -16221.2                                              
>       -10332.9                                                    37023.9     
>                         
                            7890.52
> 
> 
> I did the same test with a small system (~6 residue) and I did get zero SR 
> interactions. While the exclusions work for my small system, I don't know why 
> they seem not working for my bigger system. Am I missing something here or is 
> there something like an implicit limit for the number of atoms that can be 
> defined in the exclusion section of topology file?
> 
> I appreciate any hint or help.
> 
> Regards,
> Reza Salari
> 


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