RE: [gmx-users] large charge group

2008-11-19 Thread Berk Hess
No, it does not need to be integer. With PME it does not matter at all. With cut-off or reaction-field it is better to have neutral charge groups when possible, but not at the cost of making enormous charge groups. Charge groups should preferable consist of 2, 3 or 4 atoms which are very close to

[gmx-users] Re: Re: Alchemistry free energy simulations of molecules with different atom numbers

2008-11-19 Thread Zhao Lifeng
> > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Zhao Lifeng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Dear all, > > > > I encountered a problem in alchemistry free energy calculations: > > > > In my simulations a group (A) is to be changed to (B) in a molecule, > while > > the atom numbers n(A) is not equal to n(B

Re: [gmx-users] RE: Normal mode analysis

2008-11-19 Thread Marudachalam S
I don't know what exactly you are looking for, but normal modes can be visualized by freewares like Chemcraft, Molekel, etc. Hope it helps. Marudachalam. > > > > Hi All, > I am doing normal mode analysis. After getting the eigen > frequencies, is

Re: [gmx-users] .itp file for cyclohexane (gromos96 FF)

2008-11-19 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Isabella Daidone wrote: Hi everybody, I was wondering if anybody has, and is willing to send me, a .itp file for cyclohexane with gromos96 parameters. I searched the list, but could not find any. I apologize if I've missed it in the list. Since Gromos96 is a united-atom force field, to cr

Re: [gmx-users] free software to save a trajektorie as a movie?

2008-11-19 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Thomas Schlesier wrote: Hi all, Sorry that this question is not purely related to GRMOACS. Does anybody know an free program with which it is possible to save a trajektorie as a movie? With ngmx and VMD i can visualize the trajektorie but i can not save it as a movie (with VMD only snapshots ar

Re: RE: [gmx-users] large charge group

2008-11-19 Thread qiaobf
Hi Berk, Should the total charge for one charge group be necessarily an integer, such as 0, 1, -1? If I understand correctly, the answer is yes. However in this case, the large charge group always happens except opls-aa force field. regards, 发件人: Berk Hess 发送时间: 2008-11-20 00:21:07 收件人: D

[gmx-users] RE: Normal mode analysis

2008-11-19 Thread Polavarapu, Abhigna
Hi All, I am doing normal mode analysis. After getting the eigen frequencies, is there a way we can visualize the vibrational modes in gromacs. And even how to know which frequency corresponds to which mode of vibration. I saw that IED is used

Re: [gmx-users] free software to save a trajektorie as a movie?

2008-11-19 Thread mldaniel
In reading this post, i was hoping that somone can help me locate the vmd-plugin for pymol. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -Matthew Danielson- > Am Mittwoch, den 19.11.2008, 08:36 -0600 schrieb Pete Meyer: >> One way would be to convert the trajectory to a pdb file, load in >>

Re: [gmx-users] free software to save a trajektorie as a movie?

2008-11-19 Thread Martin Höfling
Am Mittwoch, den 19.11.2008, 08:36 -0600 schrieb Pete Meyer: > One way would be to convert the trajectory to a pdb file, load in > pymol and generate a series of png images (one for each state with an > appropriate view), then combine the png's with convert (imagemagick) > or ffpmeg into a mo

[gmx-users] Re: Constraints - PMF - Different Molecules (Mark Abraham/Arthur Roberts)

2008-11-19 Thread Eudes Fileti
Dear Mark and Arthur, thank you for your reply. I did what you suggest me and almost everything worked. I created a topology with the two molecules without bonded parameters between them and put constrains on two of its atoms. I did a minimization and a simulation (md integrator). It worked perfect

[gmx-users] Re: gmx-users Digest, Vol 55, Issue 106

2008-11-19 Thread Sunjoo Lee
0 -6.109 2.742 0.000 0.00 0.00 >>H+0 >>ATOM 13 H UNK 0 -0.774 5.822 0.000 0.00 0.00 >>H+0 >>ATOM 14 H UNK 0 1.893 5.822 0.000 0.00 0.00 >>H+0 >>ATOM 15 H UNK 0

[gmx-users] .itp file for cyclohexane (gromos96 FF)

2008-11-19 Thread Isabella Daidone
Hi everybody, I was wondering if anybody has, and is willing to send me, a .itp file for cyclohexane with gromos96 parameters. I searched the list, but could not find any. I apologize if I've missed it in the list. Thank you very much, Isabella ___

Re: [gmx-users] Re: how to turn off the interamolecular interaction

2008-11-19 Thread Suman Chakrabarty
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xianghong qi wrote: >> >> Dear all: >> >> I have a simple system which has two methane molecules with water. Now I >> need turn off the intermolecular interactions between these two methanes and >> just run >> simulation. S

Re: [gmx-users] Re: how to turn off the interamolecular interaction

2008-11-19 Thread xianghong qi
Thanks, Mark. I will check the manual. -Xianghong Qi On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > xianghong qi wrote: > >> Hi, Mark, >> >> Which method can work with exclusion? Could you give me some hints for >> that? Thanks again. >> > > I'm not your free teacher.

Re: [gmx-users] Re: how to turn off the interamolecular interaction

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Abraham
xianghong qi wrote: Hi, Mark, Which method can work with exclusion? Could you give me some hints for that? Thanks again. I'm not your free teacher... :-) You need to have a much better working knowledge of MD than one such that you need to ask that question. Certainly with your present know

Re: [gmx-users] Re: how to turn off the interamolecular interaction

2008-11-19 Thread xianghong qi
Hi, Mark, Which method can work with exclusion? Could you give me some hints for that? Thanks again. -Xianghong Qi On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:41 AM, xianghong qi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Thanks so much for your nice explaination, Mark. > -Xianghong Qi > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Ma

RE: [gmx-users] large charge group

2008-11-19 Thread Berk Hess
Hi, The charge groups "only" affect the neighbor searching, which in practice means they affect everything. In Gromacs atoms in two different charge groups will only interactions when the center of geometry of the two charge groups is within rlist. The worst case scenario, which has happend to

[gmx-users] large charge group

2008-11-19 Thread Sunjoo Lee
Hello All Recently I have figured out the biggest problem that made my system unstable. I have parameterized a molecule pretty similar to octane. A single charge group used to be assigned to this molecule. With 1 nm cut-off distance for LJ interaction and the direct space for electrostatic interac

Re: [gmx-users] sedoheptulose

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Abraham
Bernhard Knapp wrote: thanks for the hints but unfortunately i still can not get the molecule running. i tried with both prodrg server and x2top but with limited success: in the first case i generate the gro.pdb and .top file via the webinterface [1] of prodrg by pasting my coordinate file int

Re: RE: [gmx-users] sedoheptulose

2008-11-19 Thread Bernhard Knapp
thanks for the hints but unfortunately i still can not get the molecule running. i tried with both prodrg server and x2top but with limited success: in the first case i generate the gro.pdb and .top file via the webinterface [1] of prodrg by pasting my coordinate file into the textbox. then i

[gmx-users] Re: free software to save a trajektorie as a movie?

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas Schlesier
/Thomas Schlesier wrote: >// Hi all, >// Sorry that this question is not purely related to GRMOACS. Does anybody >// know an free program with which it is possible to save a trajektorie as >// a movie? With ngmx and VMD i can visualize the trajektorie but i can not >// save it as a movie (with VMD

Re: [gmx-users] Re: how to turn off the interamolecular interaction

2008-11-19 Thread xianghong qi
Thanks so much for your nice explaination, Mark. -Xianghong Qi On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > xianghong qi wrote: > >> Hi, Mark: >> I put the energygrps = Methane1 Methane2 into mdp file. >> grompp gives one warning: >> WARNING 1 [file conf.top, line 4

Re: [gmx-users] Alchemistry free energy simulations of molecules with different atom numbers

2008-11-19 Thread Diana Lousa
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Zhao Lifeng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I encountered a problem in alchemistry free energy calculations: > > In my simulations a group (A) is to be changed to (B) in a molecule, while > the atom numbers n(A) is not equal to n(B). > A scheme is to i

Re: [gmx-users] free software to save a trajektorie as a movie?

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Abraham
Thomas Schlesier wrote: Hi all, Sorry that this question is not purely related to GRMOACS. Does anybody know an free program with which it is possible to save a trajektorie as a movie? With ngmx and VMD i can visualize the trajektorie but i can not save it as a movie (with VMD only snapshots are

Re: [gmx-users] free software to save a trajektorie as a movie?

2008-11-19 Thread Pete Meyer
One way would be to convert the trajectory to a pdb file, load in pymol and generate a series of png images (one for each state with an appropriate view), then combine the png's with convert (imagemagick) or ffpmeg into a movie. Doubtless there's a more elegant way to do it, though. Pete

RE: [gmx-users] gromacs 4.0.2 error in continuation to triclinic skew error

2008-11-19 Thread Berk Hess
Hi, That is strange. This looks like a different box size than you mailed yesterday. Could you mail me the tpr file that caused this error? Berk Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:22:29 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gmx-users] gromacs 4.0.2 error in continuation to triclinic skew err

RE: [gmx-users] gromacs 4.0.2 error in continuation to triclinic skew error

2008-11-19 Thread Claus Valka
Hello, the run didn't even start and I got this: Initializing Domain Decomposition on 8 nodes Dynamic load balancing: auto Will sort the charge groups at every domain (re)decomposition Minimum cell size due to bonded interactions: 1.000 nm Scaling the initial minimum size with 1/0.8 (option -dds)

[gmx-users] Alchemistry free energy simulations of molecules with different atom numbers

2008-11-19 Thread Zhao Lifeng
Dear all, I encountered a problem in alchemistry free energy calculations: In my simulations a group (A) is to be changed to (B) in a molecule, while the atom numbers n(A) is not equal to n(B). A scheme is to include both A and B in the same topology file and switch on/off the B/A charges and vdw

RE: [gmx-users] gromacs 4.0.2 error in continuation to triclinic skew error

2008-11-19 Thread Berk Hess
Hi, I don't know what the reason for the large LJ14 distance is, but this will be over 3 bonds, not over 1 bond (which I guess the 0.154 is that you mentioned). This has nothing to do with the parallelization. I would use 4.0.2, since there are many small issues fixed that were in 4.0.0. In 4.0.

[gmx-users] free software to save a trajektorie as a movie?

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas Schlesier
Hi all, Sorry that this question is not purely related to GRMOACS. Does anybody know an free program with which it is possible to save a trajektorie as a movie? With ngmx and VMD i can visualize the trajektorie but i can not save it as a movie (with VMD only snapshots are possible). Thanks for answ

RE: [gmx-users] gromacs 4.0.2 error in continuation to triclinic skew error

2008-11-19 Thread Claus Valka
Hello, thank you for all your responses up to now. The thing is getting much more clearer. Yet, as far as the distance is concerned, this is a little bit worrying, because I have bonded interactions no more than 0.154 nm away. So a distance more than a whole nm I think that should be very long

RE: [gmx-users] sedoheptulose

2008-11-19 Thread Kukol, Andreas
Yes, it is possible by deveoping your own topology. Pdb2gmx is not suitable for that purpose. It would be helpful to check out the documentation resources and manual, e.g. http://wiki.gromacs.org/index.php/FAQs x2top and the prodgr web-server might be some good starting points. Andreas >

[gmx-users] sedoheptulose

2008-11-19 Thread Bernhard Knapp
Dear users I would like to perform a MD simulation of Sedoheptulose (C7H14O7) via Gromacs. But already during pdb2gmx it comes up with: "Residue 'UNK' not found in residue topology database" which is obviously clear since sedoheptulose is not an amino acid. Is it somehow possible to simulate t

Re: [gmx-users] Pulling in 4.0 - Any documentation?

2008-11-19 Thread Semen Esilevsky
Dear Mark, Thank you very much for the link! It's a good idea, imho, to put this link to the documentation section because it is nearly impossible to find it without asking here. Semen - Original Message From: Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Se

Re: [gmx-users] Complete list of all interaction energies

2008-11-19 Thread jgoetze
Thank you for the fast reply - I will try to find out what works best for me. All the best, Jan Götze ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.

Re: [gmx-users] Complete list of all interaction energies

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Abraham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I would like to know if there is a tool for grabbing all individual interactions of a system (analogous to the tinker tool "analyze"). I skimmed through the available tools, however, I was unable to find one which performs that function. Technically,

Re: [gmx-users] Pulling in 4.0 - Any documentation?

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Abraham
Semen Esilevsky wrote: Dear All, Where can I find documentation about the pull code in Gromacs 4.0? As far as I understand old style of setting up pulling simulations in separate file does not work any more, but I can't figure out how to transfer pulling params correctly to mdp file. Any help is

RE: [gmx-users] Pulling in 4.0 - Any documentation?

2008-11-19 Thread Berk Hess
Hi, Currently there is a beta 4.0 manual on ftp.gromacs.org. The mdp options can also be found in: share/html/online/mdp_opt.html Berk > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:33:47 -0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: gmx-users@gromacs.org > Subject: [gmx-users] Pulling in 4.0 - Any documentation? > >

[gmx-users] Complete list of all interaction energies

2008-11-19 Thread jgoetze
Hello everyone, I would like to know if there is a tool for grabbing all individual interactions of a system (analogous to the tinker tool "analyze"). I skimmed through the available tools, however, I was unable to find one which performs that function. Technically, it should be enough to

[gmx-users] Pulling in 4.0 - Any documentation?

2008-11-19 Thread Semen Esilevsky
Dear All, Where can I find documentation about the pull code in Gromacs 4.0? As far as I understand old style of setting up pulling simulations in separate file does not work any more, but I can't figure out how to transfer pulling params correctly to mdp file. Any help is appreciated! P.S. Pr

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Gromacs-4.0.2: Compilation problem on IBM P690 Regatta System

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Abraham
Suman Chakrabarty wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Suman Chakrabarty wrote: Now when I try to follow his script posted at http://www.gromacs.org/pipermail/gmx-users/2008-November/037973.html , checking for int... yes checking size of int... con

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Gromacs-4.0.2: Compilation problem on IBM P690 Regatta System

2008-11-19 Thread Suman Chakrabarty
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suman Chakrabarty wrote: > >> Now when I try to follow his script posted at >> http://www.gromacs.org/pipermail/gmx-users/2008-November/037973.html , >> I find that it does not work for me. Error is: >> >> checking for mpxlc

[gmx-users] Cutoff Parameters

2008-11-19 Thread Soumik Banerjee
Hi, I am new to gromacs and have a pretty basic question. I am using gromacs-3.3.3 to simulate glycine crystal growth. My system consists of glycine crystal surrounded by a solution of glycine in water (system size: 4.28 by 5.76 by 3.27 nm^3). I have been trying to find appropriate values for t

Re: [gmx-users] Replica exchange temp. distribution

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Abraham
sarbani chattopadhyay wrote: Hi, I do understand that reducing the number of replicas will limit my temperature space, but gromacs 3.3.2 can run 1 replica per node. Thus having 4 nodes , I can have only 4 replicas. Thus in case I want to span a temperature space of 313K to 333K using onl

Re: [gmx-users] Re: how to turn off the interamolecular interaction

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Abraham
xianghong qi wrote: Hi, Mark: I put the energygrps = Methane1 Methane2 into mdp file. grompp gives one warning: WARNING 1 [file conf.top, line 47]: Can not exclude the lattice Coulomb energy between energy groups then grompp terminated. Could you give me a hint about his problem? Thanks

RE: [gmx-users] Replica exchange temp. distribution

2008-11-19 Thread Berk Hess
Hi, You can run as many replica's you want on one machine. One "gromacs node" does not have to correspond to a physical node or core. If you have 4 nodes, you can use for instance mpirun -np 12 to have 3 replica's per physical node. Usually this will just work, in some cases you might need to mod

Re: Re: [gmx-users] Replica exchange temp. distribution

2008-11-19 Thread sarbani chattopadhyay
 Hi, I do understand that reducing the number of replicas will limit my temperature space, but gromacs 3.3.2 can run 1 replica per node. Thus having 4 nodes , I can have only 4 replicas. Thus in case I want to span a temperature space of 313K to 333K using only 4 replicas, is there any

Re: [gmx-users] Re: how to turn off the interamolecular interaction

2008-11-19 Thread xianghong qi
Hi, Mark: I put the energygrps = Methane1 Methane2 into mdp file. grompp gives one warning: WARNING 1 [file conf.top, line 47]: Can not exclude the lattice Coulomb energy between energy groups then grompp terminated. Could you give me a hint about his problem? Thanks. -Xianghong Qi On Wed, N

Re: [gmx-users] Re: how to turn off the interamolecular interaction

2008-11-19 Thread xianghong qi
Thanks, Mark. -Xianghong Qi On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > xianghong qi wrote: > >> Hi, Mark: >> for these two cases >> energygrp_excl = Methane1 Methane2 >> and energygrp_excl = methane1 methane2 >> I got same error: methane1(or M

Re: [gmx-users] Re: how to turn off the interamolecular interaction

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Abraham
xianghong qi wrote: Hi, Mark: for these two cases energygrp_excl = Methane1 Methane2 and energygrp_excl = methane1 methane2 I got same error: methane1(or Methane1 ) is not energy group. OK, so now that it's a group, you need it to be an energy group - see energygrps

Re: [gmx-users] Re: how to turn off the interamolecular interaction

2008-11-19 Thread xianghong qi
Hi, Mark: for these two cases energygrp_excl = Methane1 Methane2 and energygrp_excl = methane1 methane2 I got same error: methane1(or Methane1 ) is not energy group. Thanks so much. -Xianghong Qi On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >

RE: [gmx-users] gromacs 4.0.2 error in continuation to triclinic skew error

2008-11-19 Thread Berk Hess
Hi, The LJ-14 interaction is a two-body interaction, one of which is apparently at a distance longer than the non-bonded cut-off. mdrun determines the communication distances when starting the simulation, see the md.log file for details. Apparently all your bonded interactions are initially withi

Re: [gmx-users] Re: how to turn off the interamolecular interaction

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Abraham
xianghong qi wrote: and index file was makde from command make_ndx, I named the two methanes as methane1 and methane2. So what's different above and below? :-) energygrp_excl = Methane1 Methane2 This is why it's important to look at, and report what you *have* done, not what you

Re: [gmx-users] Replica exchange temp. distribution

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Abraham
sarbani chattopadhyay wrote: Hi everyone, I will like to do Replica exchange simulation on a peptide. We have a single machine with 4 cpus and the gromacs3.3.2 is installed. Thus I will be able to select only 4 temperature values. I came across the "T-REMD" caculator for te

Re: [gmx-users] Re: how to turn off the interamolecular interaction

2008-11-19 Thread xianghong qi
Hi, Mark, I use the command: grompp -f md.mdp -c eq2.gro -p conf.top -n md.ndx -o md.tpr -t eq2.trr and index file was makde from command make_ndx, I named the two methanes as methane1 and methane2. and my mdp file is : integrator = sd ld_seed = -1 ; start time and

Re: [gmx-users] Re: how to turn off the interamolecular interaction

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Abraham
xianghong qi wrote: Hi, Mark: I made the index file and call two methanes as methane1 and methane2 , then I set energygrp_excl = methane1 methane2, but when I run grompp, it said methane1 is not an energy group. What do you understand this problem? Thanks. -Xianghong Qi You haven't done wh

[gmx-users] Replica exchange temp. distribution

2008-11-19 Thread sarbani chattopadhyay
  Hi everyone, I will like to do Replica exchange simulation on a peptide. We have a single machine with 4 cpus and the gromacs3.3.2 is installed. Thus I will be able to select only 4 temperature values. I came across the "T-REMD" caculator for temperature distributions . H