[gmx-users] Add gromacs forcefield w/ virtual site

2010-12-29 Thread chris . neale
Dear Marcelo: This doesn't address your virtual sites question, but I have used a simple oxygen model in the past and posted it to the mailing list: http://lists.gromacs.org/pipermail/gmx-users/2009-March/040239.html With regards to your actual query: 1) as far as I know, molecular oxygen doe

Re: [gmx-users] making maxwarn a hidden option

2010-12-29 Thread ms
On 30/12/10 01:07, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: It sounds very much like your systems are in the minority - those for which -maxwarn is essential :) Oh yes. But... you don't want to discriminate minorities!! :D What I meant was that -maxwarn allows a user to casually bypass that which grompp is al

Re: [gmx-users] making maxwarn a hidden option

2010-12-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
ms wrote: On 29/12/10 23:47, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: I think the root problem boils down to a lack of documentation of this feature. For most routine use, -maxwarn should not be used, similar to -missing with pdb2gmx. Yes, but it depends. In my systems I routinely have to use both to get t

[gmx-users] Add gromacs forcefield w/ virtual site

2010-12-29 Thread Marcelo Silva
I am trying to simulate oxygen using gromacs but there seems to be no forcefield parameters for this molecule. So I would like to add a forcefield to gromacs which is a 3 site model: The two oxygens are lennard jones particles and there's a point charge at the center of mass. The reference a

Re: [gmx-users] making maxwarn a hidden option

2010-12-29 Thread ms
On 29/12/10 23:47, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: I think the root problem boils down to a lack of documentation of this feature. For most routine use, -maxwarn should not be used, similar to -missing with pdb2gmx. Yes, but it depends. In my systems I routinely have to use both to get the system rig

[gmx-users] making maxwarn a hidden option

2010-12-29 Thread chris . neale
Sounds great to me. Thanks Justin. -- original message -- ... ... It seems that my little comment has generated quite the controversy :) I think the root problem boils down to a lack of documentation of this feature. For most routine use, -maxwarn should not be used, similar to -missing

Re: [gmx-users] making maxwarn a hidden option

2010-12-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
ms wrote: On 29/12/10 21:57, chris.ne...@utoronto.ca wrote: That sounds reasonable. I don't like hidden options except for when they are associated with manuscripts that have not yet been published. As a "young" Gromacs user and an "old" free software user and developer, I wholeheartedly di

Re: [gmx-users] making maxwarn a hidden option

2010-12-29 Thread ms
On 29/12/10 21:57, chris.ne...@utoronto.ca wrote: That sounds reasonable. I don't like hidden options except for when they are associated with manuscripts that have not yet been published. As a "young" Gromacs user and an "old" free software user and developer, I wholeheartedly disagree with h

[gmx-users] making maxwarn a hidden option

2010-12-29 Thread chris . neale
That sounds reasonable. I don't like hidden options except for when they are associated with manuscripts that have not yet been published. If people want to make -maxwarn more difficult to use, it might be possible to use one of the two following mutually exclusive options: A) do not includ

Re: [gmx-users] Speed up my jobs with PME and grid spacing?

2010-12-29 Thread Mark Abraham
On 30/12/2010 1:58 AM, Florian Dommert wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/29/2010 12:56 AM, Mark Abraham wrote: On 29/12/2010 7:44 AM, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: TJ Mustard wrote: Hi, I am trying to speed up my parallel processor Gromacs jobs and was wondering what w

Re: [gmx-users] making maxwarn a hidden option

2010-12-29 Thread Mark Abraham
On 30/12/2010 4:36 AM, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: chris.ne...@utoronto.ca wrote: Strongly disagreed. I use maxwarn all the time. If it was a hidden option, how would I have ever known about it? Further, if it was a hidden option, then developers would need to be very careful about throwing warn

[gmx-users] Free energy

2010-12-29 Thread chris . neale
In addition to Justin's comments, check your convergence with block averaging. Is there a systematic energy drift as you increase the amount of sampling prior to each block? Also, try applying your method to Na+ and Cl- in a box of water. If you can't get that free energy correctly, then yo

Re: [gmx-users] Free energy

2010-12-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
mohsen ramezanpour wrote: Dear All I estimated protein-ligand free energy about -300 kj Is it logical?I think it is wrong.what do you think? There is no way for anyone on this list to assess such things. It sounds unphysical to me, but that's just a gut reaction based on nothing in particu

Re: [gmx-users] pulling

2010-12-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
mohsen ramezanpour wrote: Dear All I am using this configuration.mdp file for pulling.this is the same as umbrella sampling,of course I have changed some parts of it according to my problem(protein-ligand free energy).but when i use grompp this warning is occuring. The only reason I can see

[gmx-users] Free energy

2010-12-29 Thread mohsen ramezanpour
Dear All I estimated protein-ligand free energy about -300 kj Is it logical?I think it is wrong.what do you think? what is the range of correct value for a typical protein-ligand? protein=660 residue ligand=25 atom water=4670 Na=118 Cl=120 thanks in advance -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users

[gmx-users] pulling

2010-12-29 Thread mohsen ramezanpour
Dear All I am using this configuration.mdp file for pulling.this is the same as umbrella sampling,of course I have changed some parts of it according to my problem(protein-ligand free energy).but when i use grompp this warning is occuring. WARNING 1 [file configuration.mdp, line unknown]: Unknown

Re: [gmx-users] Optimization of the box size during an energy minimization?

2010-12-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
MyLinkka wrote: Hi Justin, Thanks for your answer! As far as I understood, the virial expression of pressure has two parts, the kinetic energy contribution and the potential energy contribution. Even when temperature is undefined or zero, the product of pair force and distance between atoms

Re: [gmx-users] Optimization of the box size during an energy minimization?

2010-12-29 Thread MyLinkka
Hi Justin, Thanks for your answer! As far as I understood, the virial expression of pressure has two parts, the kinetic energy contribution and the potential energy contribution. Even when temperature is undefined or zero, the product of pair force and distance between atoms still contribute to

Re: [gmx-users] -ve value of z in g_wham

2010-12-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Nilesh Dhumal wrote: My box size is 4.5 4.5 4.5 (in nm)90 90 90 Seems awfully large for only 128 waters. I just wonder if the box is distorting during the simulation such that the periodic distance becomes the reference distance, hence the switch between positive and negative distances.

Re: [gmx-users] -ve value of z in g_wham

2010-12-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Nilesh Dhumal wrote: I have a system with 128 water molecules and a ion pair of ionic liquids i.e. one cation and one anion. the reaction corrdination is the distance between cation and anion. Initial distance between cation-anion is 0.8 nm. What is the size of the smallest box vector? I ha

Re: [gmx-users] Fatal error:Chain identifier

2010-12-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
ahmet yıldırım wrote: OK. if I do what sort change in pdb file, there is no need to create .rtp file. It seems difficult to create the .rtp file. That depends on whether you need this residue, hence all of my previous questions. If there is some functional significance to this residue and

Re: [gmx-users] Fatal error:Chain identifier

2010-12-29 Thread ahmet yıldırım
OK. if I do what sort change in pdb file, there is no need to create .rtp file. It seems difficult to create the .rtp file. Thanks for your help 29 Aralık 2010 19:49 tarihinde Justin A. Lemkul yazdı: > > > ahmet yıldırım wrote: > >> You said "You do not have to make changes in pdb file". >> > >

Re: [gmx-users] -ve value of z in g_wham

2010-12-29 Thread Nilesh Dhumal
I have a system with 128 water molecules and a ion pair of ionic liquids i.e. one cation and one anion. the reaction corrdination is the distance between cation and anion. Initial distance between cation-anion is 0.8 nm. I have pasted some part of md file ; Pull code pull= umbrella pul

Re: [gmx-users] -ve value of z in g_wham

2010-12-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Nilesh Dhumal wrote: If I am geting -ve value if z in g_wham then zero is my initial distance or reference distance. That means your pull group has a coordinate that is negative with respect to the reference group at some point during (at least) one of the umbrella sampling windows. Zero,

Re: [gmx-users] Fatal error:Chain identifier

2010-12-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
ahmet yıldırım wrote: You said "You do not have to make changes in pdb file". When did I say that? Then How will I create .rtp file. That depends entirely upon what that residue is. Is it a constituent residue of the protein, such that its backbone is incorporated in the protein struct

Re: [gmx-users] Fatal error:Chain identifier

2010-12-29 Thread ahmet yıldırım
You said "You do not have to make changes in pdb file". Then How will I create .rtp file. 29 Aralık 2010 19:32 tarihinde Justin A. Lemkul yazdı: > > > ahmet yıldırım wrote: > >> Dear Justin, >> >> Thanks for your reply. Where is the error? >> >> Pdb file: >> >> ATOM 1 N ALA A 4 >> ATOM

Re: [gmx-users] -ve value of z in g_wham

2010-12-29 Thread Nilesh Dhumal
If I am geting -ve value if z in g_wham then zero is my initial distance or reference distance. Nilesh On Sat, December 11, 2010 9:43 pm, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: > > > Nilesh Dhumal wrote: > >> Hello, >> I trying to run umbrella sampling simulation for system. >> >> >> After running g_wham comma

Re: [gmx-users] making maxwarn a hidden option

2010-12-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
chris.ne...@utoronto.ca wrote: Strongly disagreed. I use maxwarn all the time. If it was a hidden option, how would I have ever known about it? Further, if it was a hidden option, then developers would need to be very careful about throwing warnings only in the most dire situations because th

Re: [gmx-users] Fatal error:Chain identifier

2010-12-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
ahmet yıldırım wrote: Dear Justin, Thanks for your reply. Where is the error? Pdb file: ATOM 1 N ALA A 4 ATOM 2 CA ALA A 4 ATOM 2688 N ALA B 4 ATOM 2689 CA ALA B 4 ATOM 5449 OXT GLN B 361 TER5450 GLN B 361 Right here. You're going from

Re: [gmx-users] Fatal error:Chain identifier

2010-12-29 Thread ahmet yıldırım
Dear Justin, Thanks for your reply. Where is the error? Pdb file: ATOM 1 N ALA A 4 ATOM 2 CA ALA A 4 ATOM 2688 N ALA B 4 ATOM 2689 CA ALA B 4 ATOM 5449 OXT GLN B 361 TER5450 GLN B 361 HETATM 5451 OAAABSG A 1 HETATM 5452 OABABSG A 1

Re: [gmx-users] Fatal error:Chain identifier

2010-12-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
ahmet yıldırım wrote: Dear Mark, The chain identifier have continuous. In sequence does not show any problem. Then you're not looking at the right contents; pdb2gmx wouldn't complain otherwise. Usually HETATM entries like HOH (water) are after all protein chains, so you might have chain

[gmx-users] work calculation

2010-12-29 Thread chris . neale
Dear Aswathy: The answer depends on how you did the pulling. Did you do umbrella sampling or non-equilibrium pulling? Please post your .mdp option. Also, in my opinion, running a simulation before you are sure how to post-process the data is a recipe for wasting cpu cycles. Preferably, on

[gmx-users] making maxwarn a hidden option

2010-12-29 Thread chris . neale
Strongly disagreed. I use maxwarn all the time. If it was a hidden option, how would I have ever known about it? Further, if it was a hidden option, then developers would need to be very careful about throwing warnings only in the most dire situations because the general user would not know

Re: [gmx-users] Fatal error:Chain identifier

2010-12-29 Thread ahmet yıldırım
Dear Mark, The chain identifier have continuous. In sequence does not show any problem. 29 Aralık 2010 15:10 tarihinde Mark Abraham yazdı: > On 29/12/2010 10:12 PM, ahmet yıldırım wrote: > >> Dear users, >> >> a...@ubuntu:~/Desktop/3O87$ pdb2gmx -f 3O87.pdb -water tip3p >> >> Select the Force

Re: [gmx-users] Speed up my jobs with PME and grid spacing?

2010-12-29 Thread Florian Dommert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/29/2010 12:56 AM, Mark Abraham wrote: > On 29/12/2010 7:44 AM, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: >> >> >> TJ Mustard wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> >>> I am trying to speed up my parallel processor Gromacs jobs and was >>> wondering what were the known

[gmx-users] Remove COM of a group or of the whole system

2010-12-29 Thread Xiaohua Zhang
Dear all, I have met a problem in my simulation, where I hope to remove the center of mass of one group, namely CNT02, and to pull another group by a constant force. My mdp file reads: ; Remove center of mass translation comm_mode = Linear nstcomm = 10 comm_grps

Re: [gmx-users] adequate program for simulation of BCN graphen ?

2010-12-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
mina Madah wrote: Dear all if the gromacs isn't adequate for simulation of BCN graphen , I'd like to know which simulation package/program is better for this work? pleas suggest me about it. Gromacs is perfectly capable of simulating just about anything, but the problem lies in the fa

[gmx-users] adequate program for simulation of BCN graphen ?

2010-12-29 Thread mina Madah
Dear all if the gromacs isn't adequate for simulation of BCN graphen , I'd like to know which  simulation package/program is better for this work? pleas suggest me about it. -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please s

Re: [gmx-users] force field for simulation of BCN

2010-12-29 Thread Mark Abraham
On 29/12/2010 11:06 PM, mina Madah wrote: dear all user How can I have a force field for simulation of boron-nitride-carbon (BCN) graphene? all force field in gromacs don't have boron as an atomtype . That's because those forcefields are primarily aimed at biochemistry simulations. You need

Re: [gmx-users] Fatal error:Chain identifier

2010-12-29 Thread Mark Abraham
On 29/12/2010 10:12 PM, ahmet yıldırım wrote: Dear users, a...@ubuntu:~/Desktop/3O87$ pdb2gmx -f 3O87.pdb -water tip3p Select the Force Field: 5: OPLS-AA/L all-atom force field (2001 aminoacid dihedrals) Fatal error: Chain identifier 'A' was used in two non-sequential blocks (residue 710, ato

[gmx-users] force field for simulation of BCN

2010-12-29 Thread mina Madah
dear all user How can I have a force field for simulation of boron-nitride-carbon (BCN) graphene? all force field in gromacs don't have boron as an atomtype . -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive a

[gmx-users] Fatal error:Chain identifier

2010-12-29 Thread ahmet yıldırım
Dear users, a...@ubuntu:~/Desktop/3O87$ pdb2gmx -f 3O87.pdb -water tip3p Select the Force Field: 5: OPLS-AA/L all-atom force field (2001 aminoacid dihedrals) Fatal error: Chain identifier 'A' was used in two non-sequential blocks (residue 710, atom 54 49) What should I do to correct this error?

Re: [gmx-users] location of aminoacids.dat

2010-12-29 Thread Mark Abraham
On 29/12/2010 6:33 PM, delara aghaie wrote: Dear Justin many thanks for your email and your comments. I found aminoacids.dat in the following pat */apps/gromacs/4.0.5/share/gromacs/top* I connect to imerial college via vpn. they have installed several gromacs versions. I only write *module loa