[gmx-users] Re: Error during CNP simulation

2012-10-30 Thread Bharath K. Srikanth
Hi Chris

My EM works just fine if I use a cubical box of water, so I'm baffled as
to what's going wrong in this case.

I tried the entire process again, this time removing position restraints.
Let me describe my entire procedure on this occasion, once again:

1) I first assembled a bilayer of 128 DOPC lipids, in a box of dimension
7.5 x 7.5 x 7.5 nm3.

2) I then removed the water molecules, resized the box length by changing
the bottom line of the coordinate file, and inserted a CNP to an
appropriate location, about 7 nm above the bilayer.

3) Then, I performed an energy minimization, and the CNP did not move
about. So far, so good.

4) I solvated the box with water using genbox, and then attempted an
energy minimization (using steepest descents). This is where the problem
arises.

These are the coordinates from the input coordinate file, before the
energy minimization:
  129F16C01 1793  10.600   3.474   3.330
  129F16C02 1794  10.438   3.758   3.294
  129F16C03 1795  10.381   3.588   3.947
  129F16C04 1796  10.795   3.703   3.387
  129F16C05 1797  10.564   3.308   3.584
  129F16C06 1798  10.289   3.506   3.415
  129F16C07 1799  10.322   3.939   3.528
  129F16C08 1800  10.655   3.430   3.872
  129F16C09 1801  10.840   3.479   3.620
  129F16C10 1802  10.641   3.958   3.453
  129F16C11 1803  10.342   3.876   3.850
  129F16C12 1804  10.610   3.991   3.756
  129F16C13 1805  10.675   3.736   3.950
  129F16C14 1806  10.307   3.397   3.721
  129F16C15 1807  10.862   3.787   3.699
  129F16C16 1808  10.172   3.686   3.649

And these are the coordinates from the output coordinate file, within just
TEN steps of energy minimization:
 4849F16C01 6513   1.015   0.049   5.350
 4849F16C02 6514   1.294  -3.135   4.063
 4849F16C03 6515   0.663  -1.872   3.948
 4849F16C04 6516   1.521  -1.365   3.815
 4849F16C05 6517   2.111  -0.464   4.030
 4849F16C06 6518   0.546  -2.205   6.177
 4849F16C07 6519  -0.418  -2.289   6.608
 4849F16C08 6520  -0.301  -1.054   4.991
 4849F16C09 6521  -0.154  -1.757   5.881
 4849F16C10 6522   0.595  -0.223   5.592
 4849F16C11 6523   1.450  -0.980   7.148
 4849F16C12 6524   0.055  -1.027   5.487
 4849F16C13 6525   0.020  -0.473   5.753
 4849F16C14 6526   1.492  -0.255   4.474
 4849F16C15 6527   0.926  -0.762   4.489
 4849F16C16 6528   0.147  -2.022   3.748

I have no idea why this is happening- that the molecule could move so much
seems ridiculous. Besides the em.mdp file, is something wrong with, for
example, my method of resizing the box?

Thanks!
Bharath


--original message--

Sorry Bharath, I simply can not believe that a macromolecule drifted 3 nm
during
energy minimization.
What happened to the intervening solvent? I think that you have some
problem with
your technique here.

Why did you use 120 constraints? Is this for bonds within the CNP?

You need to do 2 things:

a) figure out what is going wrong with your EM... what you describe seems
impossible
to me.
b) simplify your system to debug the problem. So you get the same warnings
about too
many constraints
if you omit the position restraints?

Chris.

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Re: [gmx-users] Holes in the solvent!

2012-10-30 Thread Broadbent, Richard
Dear Arman,

I've noticed a similar effect where large voids appear in a solvent when
running long nose-hoover NVT simulations. I have checked and it is not a pbc
artefact.
I found that if I turn the thermostat off the holes go away. I've also found
that reducing the number of cores removes the holes. I am currently
investigating this for a bug report I submitted (
http://redmine.gromacs.org/issues/1012 )

It would be helpful if you could let me know if your using a nose-hoover
thermostat and if so have a look at what happens if you run the system on
fewer cores, and what happens if you turn off the thermostat (and run nve)
after the system has equilibrated.

Thanks,

Richard



On 30/10/2012 05:46, "Arman Mahboubi Soufiani" 
wrote:

> Dear Chris,
> 
> Thank you for your directions. NaCl concentration in my system is 0.14 M
> and I often visualize the whole system and can see the ions around the
> system but not in crystal form!
> Well, it sounds really strange to me! And I don't know if I proceed with
> such a system, I get scientific results or not?!
> I appreciate your further helps.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Arman
> 
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Christopher Neale <
> chris.ne...@mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> 
>> In addition to the comments of Dallas Warren, which seems quite possible
>> and should be checked,
>> are you sure that you are seeing real holes and not just salt crystals
>> that look like holes when you render only
>> the waters with VMD? I have found that, at NaCL concentrations above 1 M,
>> lipid bilayers catalyze the formation
>> of salt crystals when using TIP3P/4P water and the OPLS/AA-L force field
>> for ions. These crystals looked a lot
>> like vacuum holes to me until I visualized the salt.
>> 
>> Chris.
>> 
>> -- original message --
>> 
>> I am simulating a protein on a polymer surface for further adsorption free
>> energy calculation.
>> However, after performing the NVT run either for short or long durations I
>> found out that couple of holes appear in the physiological saline solution
>> (solvent)!!!
>> Additionally, even proceeding with a long NPT run the holes are still
>> present in the system.
>> I would be thankful if you could direct me what could be source of such a
>> strange outcome.
>> 
>> Best Wishes
>> 
>> Arman
>> 
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Re: [gmx-users] Holes in the solvent!

2012-10-30 Thread Arman Mahboubi Soufiani
Dear Richard,

Thank you for your kind response. I'm glad that my problem is not a rare
one. Actually, I apply the simplest V-rescale as the thermostat. I run my
system on one core! However, I have not tried turning off the thermostat
and run a micro-canonical instead.
Well, I got an idea to implement. I am going to try NPTs at high
temperatures and anneal the system in order to find out whether I can get
rid of these large voids (holes) or not! Do you have any idea if this can
work or not?!

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best Wishes

Arman

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Broadbent, Richard <
richard.broadben...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear Arman,
>
> I've noticed a similar effect where large voids appear in a solvent when
> running long nose-hoover NVT simulations. I have checked and it is not a
> pbc
> artefact.
> I found that if I turn the thermostat off the holes go away. I've also
> found
> that reducing the number of cores removes the holes. I am currently
> investigating this for a bug report I submitted (
> http://redmine.gromacs.org/issues/1012 )
>
> It would be helpful if you could let me know if your using a nose-hoover
> thermostat and if so have a look at what happens if you run the system on
> fewer cores, and what happens if you turn off the thermostat (and run nve)
> after the system has equilibrated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
> On 30/10/2012 05:46, "Arman Mahboubi Soufiani" 
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Chris,
> >
> > Thank you for your directions. NaCl concentration in my system is 0.14 M
> > and I often visualize the whole system and can see the ions around the
> > system but not in crystal form!
> > Well, it sounds really strange to me! And I don't know if I proceed with
> > such a system, I get scientific results or not?!
> > I appreciate your further helps.
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Arman
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Christopher Neale <
> > chris.ne...@mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> In addition to the comments of Dallas Warren, which seems quite possible
> >> and should be checked,
> >> are you sure that you are seeing real holes and not just salt crystals
> >> that look like holes when you render only
> >> the waters with VMD? I have found that, at NaCL concentrations above 1
> M,
> >> lipid bilayers catalyze the formation
> >> of salt crystals when using TIP3P/4P water and the OPLS/AA-L force field
> >> for ions. These crystals looked a lot
> >> like vacuum holes to me until I visualized the salt.
> >>
> >> Chris.
> >>
> >> -- original message --
> >>
> >> I am simulating a protein on a polymer surface for further adsorption
> free
> >> energy calculation.
> >> However, after performing the NVT run either for short or long
> durations I
> >> found out that couple of holes appear in the physiological saline
> solution
> >> (solvent)!!!
> >> Additionally, even proceeding with a long NPT run the holes are still
> >> present in the system.
> >> I would be thankful if you could direct me what could be source of such
> a
> >> strange outcome.
> >>
> >> Best Wishes
> >>
> >> Arman
> >>
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[gmx-users] Biphasic Systems

2012-10-30 Thread Davoud Zare
Dear Gmx Users,
I made a biphasic system with water and hexane following Justin tutorial  (800 
hexane molecules) ,after adding the peptides in water phase, the number of the 
hexane molecules were reduced and some of them were shifted to the other 
side of water molecules (not at the interface of oil-water).
any comments on this?
Cheers
Davoud
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Re: [gmx-users] Re: Error during CNP simulation

2012-10-30 Thread Justin Lemkul



On 10/30/12 3:28 AM, Bharath K. Srikanth wrote:

Hi Chris

My EM works just fine if I use a cubical box of water, so I'm baffled as
to what's going wrong in this case.

I tried the entire process again, this time removing position restraints.
Let me describe my entire procedure on this occasion, once again:

1) I first assembled a bilayer of 128 DOPC lipids, in a box of dimension
7.5 x 7.5 x 7.5 nm3.

2) I then removed the water molecules, resized the box length by changing
the bottom line of the coordinate file, and inserted a CNP to an
appropriate location, about 7 nm above the bilayer.

3) Then, I performed an energy minimization, and the CNP did not move
about. So far, so good.

4) I solvated the box with water using genbox, and then attempted an
energy minimization (using steepest descents). This is where the problem
arises.

These are the coordinates from the input coordinate file, before the
energy minimization:
   129F16C01 1793  10.600   3.474   3.330
   129F16C02 1794  10.438   3.758   3.294
   129F16C03 1795  10.381   3.588   3.947
   129F16C04 1796  10.795   3.703   3.387
   129F16C05 1797  10.564   3.308   3.584
   129F16C06 1798  10.289   3.506   3.415
   129F16C07 1799  10.322   3.939   3.528
   129F16C08 1800  10.655   3.430   3.872
   129F16C09 1801  10.840   3.479   3.620
   129F16C10 1802  10.641   3.958   3.453
   129F16C11 1803  10.342   3.876   3.850
   129F16C12 1804  10.610   3.991   3.756
   129F16C13 1805  10.675   3.736   3.950
   129F16C14 1806  10.307   3.397   3.721
   129F16C15 1807  10.862   3.787   3.699
   129F16C16 1808  10.172   3.686   3.649

And these are the coordinates from the output coordinate file, within just
TEN steps of energy minimization:
  4849F16C01 6513   1.015   0.049   5.350
  4849F16C02 6514   1.294  -3.135   4.063
  4849F16C03 6515   0.663  -1.872   3.948
  4849F16C04 6516   1.521  -1.365   3.815
  4849F16C05 6517   2.111  -0.464   4.030
  4849F16C06 6518   0.546  -2.205   6.177
  4849F16C07 6519  -0.418  -2.289   6.608
  4849F16C08 6520  -0.301  -1.054   4.991
  4849F16C09 6521  -0.154  -1.757   5.881
  4849F16C10 6522   0.595  -0.223   5.592
  4849F16C11 6523   1.450  -0.980   7.148
  4849F16C12 6524   0.055  -1.027   5.487
  4849F16C13 6525   0.020  -0.473   5.753
  4849F16C14 6526   1.492  -0.255   4.474
  4849F16C15 6527   0.926  -0.762   4.489
  4849F16C16 6528   0.147  -2.022   3.748

I have no idea why this is happening- that the molecule could move so much
seems ridiculous. Besides the em.mdp file, is something wrong with, for
example, my method of resizing the box?



Do not manually resize the box.  Use editconf -box and -center as appropriate to 
place all your components within the unit cell.  While it may appear from 
visualization that your molecules are where you want them to be, they are not.


-Justin

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Re: [gmx-users] Biphasic Systems

2012-10-30 Thread Justin Lemkul



On 10/30/12 5:21 AM, Davoud Zare wrote:

Dear Gmx Users,
I made a biphasic system with water and hexane following Justin tutorial  (800 
hexane molecules) ,after adding the peptides in water phase, the number of the 
hexane molecules were reduced and some of them were shifted to the other side 
of water molecules (not at the interface of oil-water).
any comments on this?


What commands did you use to produce the system?  If done properly, this should 
not have happened.  Hexane molecules traversing the box is likely just a PBC 
effect, but that would only occur over the course of a simulation (not simple 
system construction) and should be transient.


-Justin

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[gmx-users] martian thing

2012-10-30 Thread Miguel Ángel Mompeán García
Dear gmx users,

Something very weird is happening with a .gro file and I wonder if any user
has ever experienced something similar...

I am doing umbrella sampling simulation on a peptide with capped termini
residues (ACE and NH2). As starting structure for the pulling simulations I
used the last frame from a 150 ns simulation, in order to asses the
stability of my system before the umbrella procedure.
I did NVT and NPT equilibration, and then the MD run.
Then I extracted the last frame of that 150 ns run and placed it into an
appropriate box for the pulling, so I run again editconf, genbox and energy
minimization. Then at the equilibration step the weird thing came: in the
.gro file I have the ACE residues written as NH2 in one of the chains! The
atom names remain as they have to according to the force field nomenclature
(CH3, HH31, HH32, ...) for this ACE of this chain, but it is name as NH2!!!

This is happening only in this .gro file at this step. Everything is fine
in the first equilibrations, the MD run, the energy minimization in the
newbox... It just shows up after this equilibration.

I wonder if I may just change NH2 to ACE where it is to be or it has to be
with something more complicated.
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[gmx-users] Error during CNP simulation

2012-10-30 Thread Christopher Neale
You show different atoms before and after minimization so this is not proof of 
movement. 

I often resize my box by changing the value at the end of the file and have 
never had any problem with it. Of 
course, you do need to be careful with this and everything you do.

Chris.

-- original message --

My EM works just fine if I use a cubical box of water, so I'm baffled as
to what's going wrong in this case.

I tried the entire process again, this time removing position restraints.
Let me describe my entire procedure on this occasion, once again:

1) I first assembled a bilayer of 128 DOPC lipids, in a box of dimension
7.5 x 7.5 x 7.5 nm3.

2) I then removed the water molecules, resized the box length by changing
the bottom line of the coordinate file, and inserted a CNP to an
appropriate location, about 7 nm above the bilayer.

3) Then, I performed an energy minimization, and the CNP did not move
about. So far, so good.

4) I solvated the box with water using genbox, and then attempted an
energy minimization (using steepest descents). This is where the problem
arises.

These are the coordinates from the input coordinate file, before the
energy minimization:
  129F16C01 1793  10.600   3.474   3.330
  129F16C02 1794  10.438   3.758   3.294
  129F16C03 1795  10.381   3.588   3.947
  129F16C04 1796  10.795   3.703   3.387
  129F16C05 1797  10.564   3.308   3.584
  129F16C06 1798  10.289   3.506   3.415
  129F16C07 1799  10.322   3.939   3.528
  129F16C08 1800  10.655   3.430   3.872
  129F16C09 1801  10.840   3.479   3.620
  129F16C10 1802  10.641   3.958   3.453
  129F16C11 1803  10.342   3.876   3.850
  129F16C12 1804  10.610   3.991   3.756
  129F16C13 1805  10.675   3.736   3.950
  129F16C14 1806  10.307   3.397   3.721
  129F16C15 1807  10.862   3.787   3.699
  129F16C16 1808  10.172   3.686   3.649

And these are the coordinates from the output coordinate file, within just
TEN steps of energy minimization:
 4849F16C01 6513   1.015   0.049   5.350
 4849F16C02 6514   1.294  -3.135   4.063
 4849F16C03 6515   0.663  -1.872   3.948
 4849F16C04 6516   1.521  -1.365   3.815
 4849F16C05 6517   2.111  -0.464   4.030
 4849F16C06 6518   0.546  -2.205   6.177
 4849F16C07 6519  -0.418  -2.289   6.608
 4849F16C08 6520  -0.301  -1.054   4.991
 4849F16C09 6521  -0.154  -1.757   5.881
 4849F16C10 6522   0.595  -0.223   5.592
 4849F16C11 6523   1.450  -0.980   7.148
 4849F16C12 6524   0.055  -1.027   5.487
 4849F16C13 6525   0.020  -0.473   5.753
 4849F16C14 6526   1.492  -0.255   4.474
 4849F16C15 6527   0.926  -0.762   4.489
 4849F16C16 6528   0.147  -2.022   3.748

I have no idea why this is happening- that the molecule could move so much
seems ridiculous. Besides the em.mdp file, is something wrong with, for
example, my method of resizing the box?

Thanks!
Bharath

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[gmx-users] steered pulling code on ligand-receptor complex

2012-10-30 Thread 范聪

Hello, everyone!
I'm a new user in gromacs, and now I have to perform a steered pulling code 
on a ligand-receptor complex. The ligand is to be pulled away from the binding 
site of the receptor, and umbrella sampling will be used to gain the PMF 
(potential mean force) curve. Then  binding energy of the ligand-receptor 
complex would be estimated.  The receptor contains 303 residues. While the 
ligand is pulling away, the whole receptor is restrained by posres, 1000 in x, 
y and z axis.
   Since the receptor is so large and umbrella sampling needs so much 
calculations, a very long time will be taken to complete the work.
   Now I have my question, is there anyway to reduce the taken time? Such as 
keeping only residues near the binding site to respect the whole receptor?
   Thank you all in advance!

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Re: [gmx-users] Holes in the solvent!

2012-10-30 Thread Richard Broadbent

Dear Arman,

I have never seen holes appear in my solvent when running on 12 cores or 
fewer, or when running with langevin coupling or NVE.


Running at higher temperatures (700K-1000K) did remove the holes from my 
system however, the RDF's were inconsistent on varying core counts 
(peeks and troughs moving by Angstroms). Low core counts tended to yeild 
the same RDF as a well thermalised and equilibrated NVE run or a 
langevin simulation.



I currently have simulations queing which will use v-rescale so I can't 
comment on that thermostat yet but if you are seeing this on 1 core I 
don't think it is the same issue I've been seeing.


Sorry,

Richard



On 30/10/12 08:56, Arman Mahboubi Soufiani wrote:

Dear Richard,

Thank you for your kind response. I'm glad that my problem is not a rare
one. Actually, I apply the simplest V-rescale as the thermostat. I run my
system on one core! However, I have not tried turning off the thermostat
and run a micro-canonical instead.
Well, I got an idea to implement. I am going to try NPTs at high
temperatures and anneal the system in order to find out whether I can get
rid of these large voids (holes) or not! Do you have any idea if this can
work or not?!

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best Wishes

Arman

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Broadbent, Richard <
richard.broadben...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:


Dear Arman,

I've noticed a similar effect where large voids appear in a solvent when
running long nose-hoover NVT simulations. I have checked and it is not a
pbc
artefact.
I found that if I turn the thermostat off the holes go away. I've also
found
that reducing the number of cores removes the holes. I am currently
investigating this for a bug report I submitted (
http://redmine.gromacs.org/issues/1012 )

It would be helpful if you could let me know if your using a nose-hoover
thermostat and if so have a look at what happens if you run the system on
fewer cores, and what happens if you turn off the thermostat (and run nve)
after the system has equilibrated.

Thanks,

Richard



On 30/10/2012 05:46, "Arman Mahboubi Soufiani" 
wrote:


Dear Chris,

Thank you for your directions. NaCl concentration in my system is 0.14 M
and I often visualize the whole system and can see the ions around the
system but not in crystal form!
Well, it sounds really strange to me! And I don't know if I proceed with
such a system, I get scientific results or not?!
I appreciate your further helps.

Best Regards

Arman

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Christopher Neale <
chris.ne...@mail.utoronto.ca> wrote:


In addition to the comments of Dallas Warren, which seems quite possible
and should be checked,
are you sure that you are seeing real holes and not just salt crystals
that look like holes when you render only
the waters with VMD? I have found that, at NaCL concentrations above 1

M,

lipid bilayers catalyze the formation
of salt crystals when using TIP3P/4P water and the OPLS/AA-L force field
for ions. These crystals looked a lot
like vacuum holes to me until I visualized the salt.

Chris.

-- original message --

I am simulating a protein on a polymer surface for further adsorption

free

energy calculation.
However, after performing the NVT run either for short or long

durations I

found out that couple of holes appear in the physiological saline

solution

(solvent)!!!
Additionally, even proceeding with a long NPT run the holes are still
present in the system.
I would be thankful if you could direct me what could be source of such

a

strange outcome.

Best Wishes

Arman

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[gmx-users] Re: Re: Error during CNP simulation

2012-10-30 Thread Bharath K. Srikanth
That seemed to fix it. Thank you so much!

Regards
Bharath

>Do not manually resize the box.  Use editconf -box and -center as
>appropriate to
>place all your components within the unit cell.  While it may appear from
>visualization that your molecules are where you want them to be, they are
>not.
>
>-Justin
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>Virginia Tech
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Fw: [gmx-users] hessian conversion

2012-10-30 Thread Yao Yao





Hi Gmxers,

has anyone ever converted the GROMACS hessian (in ps^(-2)) to CHARMM hessian 
(in KCal/mol),
even considering the individual unit, GROMACS hessian numbers are far bigger 
than those in CHARMM? 


thanks,

Yao
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[gmx-users] Error in npt run - box size/ triclinic skew factor

2012-10-30 Thread mtso
When trying to do an npt run, I get the fatal error: The X-size of the box
(3.999511) times the triclinic skew factor (1.00) is smaller than the
number of DD cells (4) times the smallest allowed cell size (1.00).  I
should mention, I'm brand new to using gromacs so any assistance is greatly
appreciated.  My nvt run was fine.  I used the following mdp file:


 title  = OPLS Lysozyme NPT equilibration 
define  = -DPOSRES  ; position restrain the protein
; Run parameters
integrator  = md; leap-frog integrator
nsteps  = 5 ; 2 * 5 = 100 ps
dt  = 0.002 ; 2 fs
; Output control
nstxout = 100   ; save coordinates every 0.2 ps
nstvout = 100   ; save velocities every 0.2 ps
nstenergy   = 100   ; save energies every 0.2 ps
nstlog  = 100   ; update log file every 0.2 ps
; Bond parameters
continuation= yes   ; Restarting after NVT 
constraint_algorithm = lincs; holonomic constraints 
constraints = all-bonds ; all bonds (even heavy atom-H bonds) 
constrained
lincs_iter  = 1 ; accuracy of LINCS
lincs_order = 4 ; also related to accuracy
; Neighborsearching
ns_type = grid  ; search neighboring grid cells
nstlist = 5 ; 10 fs
rlist   = 1.0   ; short-range neighborlist cutoff (in nm)
rcoulomb= 1.0   ; short-range electrostatic cutoff (in nm)
rvdw= 1.0   ; short-range van der Waals cutoff (in nm)
; Electrostatics
coulombtype = PME   ; Particle Mesh Ewald for long-range 
electrostatics
pme_order   = 4 ; cubic interpolation
fourierspacing  = 0.16  ; grid spacing for FFT
; Temperature coupling is on
tcoupl  = V-rescale ; modified Berendsen thermostat
tc-grps = Protein ; two coupling groups - more accurate
tau_t   = 0.1   ; time constant, in ps
ref_t   = 300   ; reference temperature, one for each group, in K
; Pressure coupling is on
pcoupl  = Parrinello-Rahman ; Pressure coupling on in NPT
pcoupltype  = isotropic ; uniform scaling of box vectors
tau_p   = 2.0   ; time constant, in ps
ref_p   = 1.0   ; reference pressure, in bar
refcoord_scaling= com   ; scale center of mass of reference coordinates
compressibility = 4.5e-5; isothermal compressibility of water, bar^-1
; Periodic boundary conditions
pbc = xyz   ; 3-D PBC
; Dispersion correction
DispCorr= EnerPres  ; account for cut-off vdW scheme
; Velocity generation
gen_vel = no; Velocity generation is off 

Thanks in advance.  



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