Did you look at atom 2073?

Catch ya,

Dr. Dallas Warren
Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Action
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From: gmx-users-boun...@gromacs.org [mailto:gmx-users-boun...@gromacs.org] On 
Behalf Of liaoxyi
Sent: Wednesday, 12 October 2011 3:59 PM
To: gmx-users@gromacs.org
Subject: [gmx-users] Implicit solvent problems

Hi, dear all,
I'm doing the simulation involved in protein and some surface.
I encounter this problem when trying to use implicit solvent model with 
GMX4.5.3.

First, minimize. When doing this I got the result as below:
Step=    0, Dmax= 1.0e-02 nm, Epot= -1.91727e+06 Fmax= 6.19542e+06, atom= 2073
Step=    1, Dmax= 1.0e-02 nm, Epot= -1.99260e+06 Fmax= 1.05712e+06, atom= 2073
Step=    2, Dmax= 1.2e-02 nm, Epot= -2.09734e+06 Fmax= 1.79058e+05, atom= 2073
Step=    4, Dmax= 7.2e-03 nm, Epot= -2.17474e+06 Fmax= 7.22113e+04, atom= 2073
Step=    6, Dmax= 4.3e-03 nm, Epot= -2.17724e+06 Fmax= 4.33926e+04, atom= 2073
Step=    8, Dmax= 2.6e-03 nm, Epot= -2.18069e+06 Fmax= 3.24778e+04, atom= 2073
Step=   10, Dmax= 1.6e-03 nm, Epot= -2.18404e+06 Fmax= 2.76114e+04, atom= 2073
Step=   13, Dmax= 4.7e-04 nm, Epot= -2.18500e+06 Fmax= 2.63803e+04, atom= 2073
Step=   17, Dmax= 7.0e-05 nm, Epot= -2.18514e+06 Fmax= 2.62045e+04, atom= 2073
Step=   19, Dmax= 4.2e-05 nm, Epot= -2.18522e+06 Fmax= 2.61000e+04, atom= 2073
Step=   22, Dmax= 1.3e-05 nm, Epot= -2.18524e+06 Fmax= 2.60689e+04, atom= 2073
Step=   23, Dmax= 1.5e-05 nm, Epot= -2.18527e+06 Fmax= 2.60315e+04, atom= 2073
Step=   27, Dmax= 2.3e-06 nm, Epot= -2.18527e+06 Fmax= 2.60258e+04, atom= 2073
Step=   29, Dmax= 1.4e-06 nm, Epot= -2.18488e+06 Fmax= 2.60222e+04, atom= 2073
Stepsize too small, or no change in energy.
Converged to machine precision,
but not to the requested precision Fmax < 1000

Double precision normally gives you higher accuracy.
writing lowest energy coordinates.

Steepest Descents converged to machine precision in 30 steps,
but did not reach the requested Fmax < 1000.
Potential Energy  = -2.1852700e+06
Maximum force     =  2.6025840e+04 on atom 2073
Norm of force     =  2.2667976e+03
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>From above, the force is extremely large. And I don't know why.

the minim.mdp is as below:
; minim.mdp - used as input into grompp to generate em.tpr
; Parameters describing what to do, when to stop and what to save
integrator       = steep             ; Algorithm (steep = steepest descent 
minimization)
emtol             = 1000.0          ; Stop minimization when the maximum force 
< 1000.0 kJ/mol/nm
emstep          = 0.01          ; Energy step size
nsteps                        = 50000                       ; Maximum number of 
(minimization) steps to perform

; Parameters describing how to find the neighbors of each atom and how to 
calculate the interactions
nstlist             = 1                   ; Frequency to update the neighbor 
list and long range forces
ns_type                      = grid              ; Method to determine neighbor 
list (simple, grid)
rlist                = 1.0                ; Cut-off for making neighbor list 
(short range forces)
coulombtype  = Cut-off         ; for Implicit solvent long-range electrostatics
rcoulomb       = 1.0                ; Short-range electrostatic cut-off
rvdw              = 1.0                ; Short-range Van der Waals cut-off
pbc                 = xyz               ; Periodic Boundary Conditions (yes/no)
; implicit_solvent
implicit_solvent         = GBSA
gb_algorithm           = OBC
nstgbradii               = 1
rgbradii                 = 1.0
gb_epsilon_solvent       = 78.3
gb_obc_alpha             = 1  ; OBC(II)
gb_obc_beta              = 0.8 ; OBC(II)
gb_obc_gamma             = 4.85 ; OBC(II)
gb_dielectric_offset     = 0.09
-----------------
Is there any item that's not proper or needed to add?

Is the minimization necessary for implicit solvent?
Thank you again for your reading.

Kiara


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