Re: [gmx-users] Invalid order for directive defaults

2013-11-13 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/13/13 11:53 AM, Atila Petrosian wrote: Dear Justin Thanks for your quick reply. I was confused. If I add #include "ffcntbon.itp" after #include "cnt.itp" in .top file, my problem was solved and error was solved? No. The parameters are at the force field level and thus have to be #i

Re: [gmx-users] Invalid order for directive defaults

2013-11-13 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/13/13 10:39 AM, Atila Petrosian wrote: Dear Justin Thanks for your reply. In your previous setup, you were effectively trying to use CHARMM27 + some other force field related to the CNT. You can't do that. Thus, Gromacs is not appropriate for systems containing cnt. Is my deduction

Re: [gmx-users] Calculating diffusion coefficient in three dimension

2013-11-13 Thread Justin Lemkul
n the configuration and calculates relative to it. I suspect you will need to modify the code to implement a custom algorithm. -Justin ) and 3D diffusion coefficient to the core lipids. On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/13/13 12:20 AM, Venkat Reddy wrote: Dear Justi

Re: [gmx-users] error while running pdb2gmx

2013-11-13 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/13/13 6:02 AM, hasthi wrote: Hello GROMACS users, I have phosphorylated Serine residue in my protein (140 residues) of interest, now when I run pdb2gmx I get this following error Atom OXT in residue ALA 140 was not found in rtp entry ALA with 6 atoms while

Re: [gmx-users] Invalid order for directive defaults

2013-11-13 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/13/13 5:51 AM, Atila Petrosian wrote: Dear Justin Very thanks for your reply. I created a new topol.top file as below: 1) I used once default directive. 2) I put cnt.itp file in working directory. 3) I copied pr.top and renamed it to topol.top. I added #include "cnt.itp" in the end o

Re: [gmx-users] Calculating diffusion coefficient in three dimension

2013-11-13 Thread Justin Lemkul
literature for papers simulating vesicles to see how the lipid diffusion was calculated. Cheers Tom On 11/12/2013 06:35 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/12/13 1:33 PM, Venkat Reddy wrote: Thanks Justin. So, I have to calculate diffusion coefficient three times (x,y,z) and finally add-up togeth

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Change in the position of structural Zinc and calcium ions during MD

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/12/13 1:47 PM, Rama wrote: Hi Justin, Below I pasted .mdp file and topology. In .log file I could see energy term for position restraints. .mdp file--- title = NPT Equilibration define = -DPOSRES ; position restraints for protein ; Run paramet

Re: [gmx-users] Calculating diffusion coefficient in three dimension

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
n Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/12/13 12:30 PM, Venkat Reddy wrote: Dear Sir, Thanks for the quick reply. So, I have to declare -type no flag. Isn't it?? The options for the -type flag are x, y, or z. You said you wanted the diffusion coefficient in ea

Re: [gmx-users] Change in the positon of structural Zinc and calcium ions during MD

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/12/13 12:35 PM, Rama wrote: Hi Gromacs users, I'm doing protein-Bilayer MD simulations. Enzyme contains structural zinc and calcium ions during Energy minimization, NVT and NPT stage, ions are changing there position even though I applied position restraints for the atoms and ions. Any

Re: [gmx-users] Calculating diffusion coefficient in three dimension

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
se-grained system. Yes, a representative atom is usually what is passed to g_msd. -Justin On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/12/13 11:25 AM, Venkat Reddy wrote: Then, how to mention the direction for spherical particles Sir? Read g_msd -h again, payin

Re: [gmx-users] Re: segmentation fault on gromacs 4.5.5 after mdrun

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
, which force field you chose, how you derived the ligand topology, and the full contents of your .mdp file? -Justin Thanks Javier Justin Lemkul wrote On 11/12/13 10:58 AM, cjalmeciga wrote: I run grompp -f nvt.mdp -c em.gro -p topol.top -n index.ndx -o nvt.tpr and everything looks fine. I

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Restarting a simulation after replacing an empty md.trr file

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/12/13 12:07 PM, arunjones wrote: Thank you Sir, initially i was running on 60 threads, now i changed it to 100. simulation is running with out any error, but i found a note in the log file as fallows #nodes mismatch, current program: 100 checkpoint file: 60 #PME-nodes mi

Re: [gmx-users] Calculating diffusion coefficient in three dimension

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/12/13 11:25 AM, Venkat Reddy wrote: Then, how to mention the direction for spherical particles Sir? Read g_msd -h again, paying specific attention to the -type flag. -Justin On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/12/13 8:55 AM, Venkat Reddy wrote: Thank

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Restarting a simulation after replacing an empty md.trr file

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/12/13 11:10 AM, arunjones wrote: Hello Sir, Thanks for the reply. now is it fine if i use 100 threads in my restart. is there any impact on the over all simulation? Only if that is the number of threads originally used in the run. If not, there will be a mismatch between the DD grid

Re: [gmx-users] Re: segmentation fault on gromacs 4.5.5 after mdrun

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
). the real problem is with the mdrun function. could be a problem of the software? You have presented no evidence that would lead anyone to believe the problem is with mdrun. In the vast majority of cases, user input is the problem. -Justin Thanks Javier Justin Lemkul wrote On 11/11

Re: [gmx-users] Invalid order for directive defaults

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/12/13 10:07 AM, Atila Petrosian wrote: Dear all My system contains protein + cnt + water molecules. I have summarized what I did below: --- 1) By pdb2gmx and charmm27 force field, I obtained pr.top for prot

Re: [gmx-users] Calculating diffusion coefficient in three dimension

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/12/13 8:55 AM, Venkat Reddy wrote: Thank you sir for the prompt reply. *g_msd -f traj.xtc -s topol.tpr -n msd.ndx -lateral z -o msd.xvg -tu ns* Here I am giving -lateral z (like for membrane simulations). Is it fine for spherical systems also? No. The system is a sphere, so what use

Re: [gmx-users] Re: g_analyze

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
unction of g_analyze. Use trjconv -dump with a suitable index file (from g_select). -Justin On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/11/13 6:56 PM, bharat gupta wrote: Hi, I tried g_select to dump the structure with the interacting water molecules, but I don't know

Re: [gmx-users] Re: g_analyze

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
mplies that on average 7 hydrogen bonds are formed during the simulation time of 5ns to 10ns. What does then the average file or its graph tells ?? On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/11/13 4:06 AM, bharat gupta wrote: In addition to my previous question, I have

Re: [gmx-users] Restarting a simulation after replacing an empty md.trr file

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/12/13 1:15 AM, arun kumar wrote: Dear Gromacs users, I am running a 50ns simulation of a protein having nearly 700 residues on 60 threads (Gromacs 4.6.3). At one point i got a disk space problem, so i have deleted the md.trr file and created an empty md.trr file. when i tried to restart

Re: [gmx-users] Re: g_analyze

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
as is intuitive from your values. An average of 4 is impossible if all the data points are in the range of 6-9. -Justin On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/11/13 4:06 AM, bharat gupta wrote: In addition to my previous question, I have another question about g

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Reaction field zero and ions

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/11/13 12:08 PM, Williams Ernesto Miranda Delgado wrote: Hello If I did the MD simulation using PME and neutralized with ions, and I want to rerun this time with reaction field zero, is there any problem if I keep the ions? This is for LIE calculation. I am using AMBER99SB. Why do you th

Re: [gmx-users] hydrogen bond calculation problem

2013-11-12 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/11/13 12:36 PM, Sushma Yadav wrote: Dear gromacs users, I have NaCl-water system of finite concentration .I want to calculate water-water hydrogen bond in the first solvation shell around ion..So I used g_hbond -shell option.For single ion in water,its easy to calculate..But say,for wate

Re: [gmx-users] installation error under openSuse 12.2

2013-11-11 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/11/13 11:27 AM, kolnkempff wrote: Dear gmx-users, I am trying to install gromacs-4.6.3 on an older Dell that is running openSuse 12.2 Using "DGMX_BUILD_OWN_FFTW=ON" failed for me so to get through cmake I had to compile fftw from scratch and I followed the recommendation of going direct

Re: [gmx-users] segmentation fault on gromacs 4.5.5 after mdrun

2013-11-11 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/11/13 11:24 AM, Carlos Javier Almeciga Diaz wrote: Hello evryone, I doing a simulation of a ligand-protein interaction with gromacs 4.5.5. Everything looks fine after I equilibrate the protein-ligand complex. I'm running these commands: grompp -f nvt.mdp -c em.gro -p topol.top -n ind

Re: [gmx-users] help about logfile

2013-11-11 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/11/13 5:04 AM, guozhicheng222 wrote: Hi I am confusing with the output file (.log) about the sample frequency (frames) in my simulation. The average information in .log file is 'Statistics over 31 steps using 3001 frames' where nstxout =4000 and nstlog =4000. While, 'Statistics over

Re: [gmx-users] Re: g_analyze

2013-11-11 Thread Justin Lemkul
p the structure with those average water molecules interacting with the residues. I generated the hbond.log file which gives the details but I need to generate a figure for this ?? On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/10/13 8:38 PM, bharat gupta wrote: But trjorder

Re: [gmx-users] Re: g_analyze

2013-11-11 Thread Justin Lemkul
-Justin On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/10/13 8:38 PM, bharat gupta wrote: But trjorder can be used to calculate the hydration layer or shell around residues ... Right ?? Yes, but I also tend to think that integrating an RDF is also a more straightforward way

Re: [gmx-users] Re: g_analyze

2013-11-10 Thread Justin Lemkul
that may or may not be an informed decision - with an RDF it is clear where the hydration layers are. -Justin On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/10/13 8:30 PM, bharat gupta wrote: Thanks for your reply. I was missing the scientific notation part. Now everything

Re: [gmx-users] Re: g_analyze

2013-11-10 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/10/13 8:30 PM, bharat gupta wrote: Thanks for your reply. I was missing the scientific notation part. Now everything is fine. Regarding trjorder, it doesn't measure h-bonds but gives the water nearest to protein. I wouldn't try to draw any sort of comparison between the output of trjo

Re: [gmx-users] Re: g_analyze

2013-11-10 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/10/13 7:18 PM, bharat gupta wrote: I checked the file hbnum.xvg file and it contains three columns - time, hbonds, hbonds that donot follow the angle criteria. In that case SS1 is The third column is not actually H-bonds, then ;) the average of actual hbonds (2nd column ) and SS2 is t

Re: [gmx-users] Umbrella Sampling tutorial

2013-11-10 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/10/13 9:14 AM, shahab shariati wrote: Dear Justin Very thanks for your reply. What you described earlier should not be attempted with "distance" geometry. It won't work very well. The use of restraints is almost NEVER necessary, especially in the case where the reference group > is mu

Re: [gmx-users] Umbrella Sampling tutorial

2013-11-10 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/10/13 5:31 AM, shahab shariati wrote: Dear Justin Thanks for your reply. You are right. I should not extrapolate too literally from your tutorial to my system. But, I have a general question: There is 2 groups in COM pulling method (reference group + pull group). If I want to use pu

Re: [gmx-users] Re: g_analyze

2013-11-10 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/10/13 12:20 AM, bharat gupta wrote: Hi, I used the command g_hbond to find h-bond between residues 115-118 and water. Then I used g_analyze to find out the average and it gives the value for the hbonds like this :- std. dev.relative deviation of

Re: [gmx-users] Re: CHARMM .mdp settings for GPU

2013-11-09 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/9/13 9:51 PM, Gianluca Interlandi wrote: On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Gianluca Interlandi wrote: Just to chime in. Here is a that paper might be helpful in understanding the role of cuoffs in the CHARMM force field: AU STEINBACH, PJ BROOKS, BR AF STEINBACH, PJ BROOKS, BR TI NEW SPHERICAL

Re: [gmx-users] Re: CHARMM .mdp settings for GPU

2013-11-09 Thread Justin Lemkul
. If someone else can comment, that would be useful to me, as well! Test carefully and please report back. A comparison between CPU and GPU would be very valuable. -Justin On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Justin Lemkul [via GROMACS] < ml-node+s5086n5012351...@n6.nabble.com> wrote:

Re: [gmx-users] Trouble calculating MSD after removing COM for upper and lower leaflets

2013-11-09 Thread Justin Lemkul
debugger to see which function is failing. -Justin On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/9/13 5:24 AM, rajat desikan wrote: Hi All, I have a few older membrane simulations for which the COM for the upper and lower leaflets were not removed in the course of the

Re: [gmx-users] Umbrella Sampling tutorial

2013-11-09 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/9/13 9:38 AM, shahab shariati wrote: Dear Justin Thanks for your explanation. My system contains lipid bilayer + drug + water molecules. I want to calculate Potential of mean force as a function of the distance between the centers of mass of drug and the lipid bilayer. Box vector alon

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Ligand simulation for LIE with PME

2013-11-09 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/8/13 3:32 PM, Williams Ernesto Miranda Delgado wrote: Greetings again If I use a salt concentration for neutralizing the protein-ligand complex and run MD using PME, and the ligand is neutral, do I perform ligand MD simulation without adding any salt concentration? It could be relevant fo

Re: [gmx-users] Simulation box size, LIE and PME

2013-11-09 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/8/13 2:27 PM, Williams Ernesto Miranda Delgado wrote: Greetings The discussion list had helped me about understanding what to do when I want to calculate binding free energy using LIE after doing MD simulation using PME. Now I need your help about choosing the simulation box size for liga

Re: [gmx-users] Umbrella Sampling tutorial

2013-11-09 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/9/13 8:22 AM, shahab shariati wrote: Daer Justin I studied your tutorial (Umbrella Sampling). It is very beneficial for me. The system you considered was the dissociation of a single peptide from the growing end of an protofibril. You considered following parameters: Chain_B: referenc

Re: [gmx-users] Trouble calculating MSD after removing COM for upper and lower leaflets

2013-11-09 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/9/13 5:24 AM, rajat desikan wrote: Hi All, I have a few older membrane simulations for which the COM for the upper and lower leaflets were not removed in the course of the simulations. These are pretty long simulations exceeding 300 ns. I have trouble with post-processing of the trajector

Re: [gmx-users] Re: choosing force field

2013-11-09 Thread Justin Lemkul
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Justin Lemkul [via GROMACS] < ml-node+s5086n5012325...@n6.nabble.com> wrote: On 11/7/13 12:14 PM, pratibha wrote: My protein contains metal ions which are parameterized only in gromos force field. Since I am a newbie to MD simulations, it would be difficu

Re: [gmx-users] Reg error in Compilation Of Gromacs 4.6.2

2013-11-08 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/8/13 7:44 AM, vidhya sankar wrote: Dear Justin Thank you for your Previous reply, I am trying to Install gromacs 4.6.2 in a cluster having centos OS with teh Following Command I got following error cmake .. -DGMX_BUILD_OWN_FFTW=ON -DGMX_MPI=ON -DGMX_DOUBLE=ON CMake Warning at

Re: [gmx-users] Re: CHARMM .mdp settings for GPU

2013-11-08 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/7/13 11:32 PM, Rajat Desikan wrote: Dear All, The setting that I mentioned above are from Klauda et al., for a POPE membrane system. They can be found in charmm_npt.mdp in lipidbook (link below) http://lipidbook.bioch.ox.ac.uk/package/show/id/48.html Is there any reason not to use their

Re: [gmx-users] Re: choosing force field

2013-11-07 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/7/13 12:14 PM, pratibha wrote: My protein contains metal ions which are parameterized only in gromos force field. Since I am a newbie to MD simulations, it would be difficult for me to parameterize those myself. Can you please guide me as per my previous mail which out of the two simulat

Re: [gmx-users] DSSP output

2013-11-07 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/7/13 8:24 AM, Anirban wrote: Hi ALL, Is there any way to get the percentage of each secondary structural content of a protein using do_dssp if I supply a single PDB to it? The output of scount.xvg has the percentages, but it's also trivial to do it for one snapshot. The contents of s

Re: [gmx-users] Error in Umbrella sampling command

2013-11-07 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/7/13 6:27 AM, Arunima Shilpi wrote: Dear Sir Presently I am working with the example file as given in the umbrella sampling tutorial. While running the following command grompp -f npt_umbrella.mdp -c conf0.gro -p topol.top -n index.ndx -o npt0.tpr I got the following error. How to debu

Re: [gmx-users] stopped simulation

2013-11-06 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/6/13 4:52 PM, Mark Abraham wrote: On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/6/13 2:14 PM, Ehsan Sadeghi wrote: Many thanks Justin. What is an appropriate cut-off value? My box size is d= 0.5 nm; based on the definition of cut-off radius, its value shouble be

Re: [gmx-users] stopped simulation

2013-11-06 Thread Justin Lemkul
be for your chosen force field. http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Minimum_Image_Convention -Justin Cheers, Ehsan - Original Message - From: "Justin Lemkul" To: "Discussion list for GROMACS users" Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 11:22:09 AM Sub

Re: [gmx-users] stopped simulation

2013-11-06 Thread Justin Lemkul
settings. You haven't said which one you're using, and there may be slight differences between them. If the value you're using isn't taken directly from a paper, it's not credible. -Justin Cheers, Ehsan - Original Message - From: "Justin Lemkul"

Re: [gmx-users] Group protein not found in indexfile

2013-11-06 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/6/13 1:52 PM, Steve Seibold wrote: Hello I am having trouble running a dimmer invacuo simulation. I can do energy minimization on it, but when I attempt to generate md.tpr file I get this weird message about “Group Protein not found in index”. I don’t see why I would need an index file.

Re: [gmx-users] stopped simulation

2013-11-06 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/6/13 12:53 PM, Ehsan Sadeghi wrote: Hi gmx users, I have simulated ionomer in water solution using gromos force field. But in middle of simulation(after 2 ns) the simulation stopped and I received these messages: WARNING: Listed nonbonded interaction between particles 174 and 188 at

Re: [gmx-users] Number of water molecules around any methyl carbon

2013-11-06 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/6/13 10:55 AM, rankinb wrote: Hi all, I would like to calculate the number of water molecules around any of the methyl carbon atoms of tert-butyl alcohol. Currently, I have defined an index group containing all three of the methyl carbon atoms and used trjorder -nshell to calculate the

Re: [gmx-users] g_lie and ligand only simulation

2013-11-06 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/6/13 5:47 AM, Kavyashree M wrote: Dear users, Sorry for repeating the same question. I just wanted to know whether is it ok if I have rlist > rcoulomb in ligand-water and prot-lig-water rerun md (with RF-0) while having rlist = rcoulomb in the original simulation using PME? The energi

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Analysis tools and triclinic boxes

2013-11-06 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/5/13 7:14 PM, Stephanie Teich-McGoldrick wrote: Message: 5 Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:32:52 -0500 From: Justin Lemkul Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Analysis tools and triclinic boxes To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Message-ID: <5277e854.9000...@vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; c

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Replacing atom

2013-11-05 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/5/13 10:34 AM, J Alizadeh wrote: Hi, I need to replace an atom with another in the considered system. I'd like to know if it is possible and if so what changes I need to do. The coordinate file replacement is trivial. Just open the file in a text editor and repname the atom. The top

Re: [gmx-users] mdrun

2013-11-05 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/5/13 7:37 AM, MUSYOKA THOMMAS wrote: Dear Users, I am running MD simulations of a protein-ligand system. Sometimes when i do an mdrun, be it for the energy minimization or during the nvt and npt equillibration or the actual md run step, sometimes the output files are named in a very odd

Re: [gmx-users] Energy minimization has stopped....

2013-11-05 Thread Justin Lemkul
what I suggested before. The reason for a large force is either (1) bad atomic clashes that should be apparent upon visual inspection or (2) bad topology for the drug. -Justin On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/5/13 6:28 AM, Kalyanashis Jana wrote: Hi

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Energy minimization has stopped....

2013-11-05 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/5/13 7:19 AM, Kalyanashis wrote: I have given my .mdp file, ; title = trp_drg warning = 10 cpp = /usr/bin/cpp define = -DPOSRES constraints = all-bonds integrator = md dt = 0.002 ; ps ! nsteps

Re: [gmx-users] free energy

2013-11-05 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/5/13 3:45 AM, kiana moghaddam wrote: Dear GMX Users I am using parmbsc0 force field to study DNA-ligand interaction but my problem is free energy calculation (MMPBSA) for this interaction. How can I calculate free energy using MMPBSA approach? Thank you very much for your time and c

Re: [gmx-users] Energy minimization has stopped....

2013-11-05 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/5/13 6:28 AM, Kalyanashis Jana wrote: Hi, Whenever I am trying to do position retrained MD run, It has been stopped at middle of the MD run. I have given the following error. Can you please suggest me something to resolve this error? Energy minimization has stopped, but the forces have

Re: [gmx-users] .top file for a mixed solvent

2013-11-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/4/13 5:25 PM, Ehsan Sadeghi wrote: Hi gmx users, I want to simulate ionomer is mixed solution of water and ethanol using gromos force field. I tired to follow the steps suggested on gromacs website, which are: 1- Determine the number of co-solvent molecules necessary, given the box

Re: [gmx-users] Gentle heating with implicit solvent

2013-11-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/4/13 2:25 PM, Gianluca Interlandi wrote: Dear Mark, Sorry for replying to an older thread. We are trying to perform implicit solvent simulations of protein G with CHARMM27 in gromacs. We are trying to trouble shoot why the protein unfolds after already 2 ns of dynamics. We use simulated

Re: [gmx-users] Group protein not found in indexfile

2013-11-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/4/13 3:03 PM, Steve Seibold wrote: Hi Justin Thanks for your response. Here are the files you asked for. They are all text files. I am still attempting to fix this, but am still getting the error I described no matter what I have done so far. The list does not accept attachments, nor

Re: [gmx-users] Analysis tools and triclinic boxes

2013-11-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/4/13 1:29 PM, Stephanie Teich-McGoldrick wrote: Dear all, I am using gromacs 4.6.3 with a triclinic box. Based on the manual and mail list, it is my understanding that the default box shape in gromacs in a triclinic box. Can I assume that all the analysis tools also work for a triclinic

Re: [gmx-users] Group protein not found in indexfile

2013-11-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/4/13 1:29 PM, Steve Seibold wrote: Hello I am just trying to do a simple MD on a dimmer system (in which the dimmers are NOT identical). I can use pdb2gmx to create a topology file and four .itp files pores.chainA.itp, pores.chainX.itp; system.Protein.chainA.itp and system.Protein.

Re: [gmx-users] Fw: energy minimization problem

2013-11-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/4/13 8:55 AM, kiana moghaddam wrote: Dear Justin It is obvious that emtol value can not be zero or negative. but you wrote in your email " For more sensitive calculations like free energy simulations and normal modes, you will want to minimize much more thoroughly (for NM, emtol < 1) and

Re: [gmx-users] gmxcheck

2013-11-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
that are simply read from the last few lines of the .top though, so there's no need to invoke any other accessory programs. -Justin On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/4/13 7:14 AM, Ankita Naithani wrote: Hi Justin, Thank you for your reply. I did give the

Re: [gmx-users] gmxcheck

2013-11-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/4/13 7:14 AM, Ankita Naithani wrote: Hi Justin, Thank you for your reply. I did give the .tpr file but the job terminated after few frames only. Also, if that is not helpful, do you have any There are no frames in a .tpr file. I suspect you're simply issuing the command incorrectly,

Re: [gmx-users] gmxcheck

2013-11-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/4/13 5:06 AM, Ankita Naithani wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me with the gmxcheck function? In the manual it is written, -m flag is given a LaTeX file will be written consisting of a rough outline for a methods section for a paper. I tried it several times but there isn'

Re: [gmx-users] Fw: energy minimization problem

2013-11-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/4/13 3:29 AM, kiana moghaddam wrote: Dear Justin Further to your previous email, I want to calculate free energy for DNA-ligand interaction. According to your answer, for more sensitive calculations like free energy simulations and normal modes, emtol should be lower than 1. As I unde

Re: [gmx-users] Different Residues...

2013-11-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/4/13 3:16 AM, Ramon Valencia wrote: Hello Dear GROMACS users, I trying to do a MD calculation using GROMACS, but when I running pdb2gmx I get the following error: Fatal error: Residue '' not found in residue topology database I'm a beginner GROMACS user, but I want to know exactly, ho

Re: [gmx-users] g_lie useage

2013-11-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/4/13 1:52 AM, Saman Shahriyari wrote: dear gmx users i am trying to use g_lie tool regarding the fact i am a newbie to this. so i searched through the web for an appropriate protocol. although there are lots of staffs discussing the theory, but i couldn't find any thing describing the

Re: [gmx-users] DPOSRES and energy minimization

2013-11-04 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/4/13 1:31 AM, Gianluca Interlandi wrote: Is there a way to tell from the log file whether positional restraints are really activated or not? Yes, there is a position restraint energy term written to the .log and .edr files if the restraints are active. -Justin -- ==

Re: [gmx-users] Re: trjconv for pbc

2013-11-03 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/3/13 7:12 AM, rankinb wrote: That last procedure works. I really appreciate your help. The only other question I have is related to the selection process. Is there a way to select the oxygen atoms of water within a certain distance of a molecule, as well as the corresponding hydrogen a

Re: [gmx-users] DPOSRES and energy minimization

2013-11-03 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/3/13 12:38 AM, Gianluca Interlandi wrote: Is it possible to use position restraints: define = -DPOSRES during an energy minimization? I tried to do that but it looks like all atoms are moved during minimization: Depending on the forces present in the system, it is possible that the a

Re: [gmx-users] energy minimization problem

2013-11-03 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/3/13 6:20 AM, kiana moghaddam wrote: Dear Justin Further to your previous email, I want to calculate free energy for DNA-ligand interaction. According to your answer, for more sensitive calculations like free energy simulations and normal modes, emtolshould be lower than 1. As I understa

Re: [gmx-users] No Distribution?

2013-11-02 Thread Justin Lemkul
0.000 240.0000.0000.0000.0000.000 260.0000.0000.0000.0000.000 … Thanks in advance, Xu Huang On Nov 2, 2013, at 6:35 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/2/13 6:29 PM, Xu Dong Huang wrote: Dear All, My martini system has 3

Re: [gmx-users] No Distribution?

2013-11-02 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/2/13 6:50 PM, Xu Dong Huang wrote: @ Gromacs users, so I did g_dist , and I’m confused by a couple of things. 1) why is it asking me for 2 groups? I have my particles of interest under 1 type, namely [ O1 ] 1 23, and nothing else. 2) I just picked the same group twice, and the

Re: [gmx-users] No Distribution?

2013-11-02 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/2/13 6:29 PM, Xu Dong Huang wrote: Dear All, My martini system has 3 particles in a chain, rest is martini water, and I’m only interested in the bond length distribution of particle 1&2, 1&3 and 2&3, and I execute the following: g_bond -f npt.xtc -n index.ndx -o bonds.xvg I get the fo

Re: [gmx-users] energy minimization problem

2013-11-02 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/2/13 3:38 PM, kiana moghaddam wrote: Hi GMX Users I 'm running MD Simulation for DNA-ligand interaction. I ran energy minimization with emtol=10, 100 and 250 in 1 steps (steepest descent followed by the conjugate gradient algorithm). The lowest value for energy obtained for emtol=

Re: [gmx-users] Re: trjconv for pbc

2013-11-02 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/2/13 12:25 PM, rankinb wrote: Here are the steps that I used: 1. trjconv -pbc whole -dump 37.875 2. trjconv -pbc nojump 3. trjconv -center 4. g_select to make an index containing the atoms of interest 5. trjconv to extract coordinates Regardless of whether step 1 is used or not, th

Re: [gmx-users] g_lie and ligand only simulation

2013-11-02 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/2/13 12:14 PM, Kavyashree M wrote: Sir, Thank you. Should the ligand-water MD be done without PME? I already answered this. Please read my previous reply again. -Justin Thank you Regards Kavya On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 11/2/13 1:22 AM

Re: [gmx-users] Re: trjconv for pbc

2013-11-02 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/2/13 11:23 AM, rankinb wrote: Tsjerk, Thanks for your reply. I have tried using the center option, but ran into similar problems. Here are the exact commands that I used: g_select -f file.xtc -s file.tpr -n index.ndx -select 'group 14 and within 0.71 of group 13' -b 37.875 -e 37.875 -

Re: [gmx-users] g_lie and ligand only simulation

2013-11-02 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/2/13 1:22 AM, Kavyashree M wrote: Dear Users, Its mentioned in the list that it would be wrong to use g_lie on a simulation which uses PME. So kindly suggest any other way available to get the free energy of ligand binding other using g_lie? The original simulation should be done wit

Re: [gmx-users] Re: RNA simulation (Justin Lemkul)

2013-11-02 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/2/13 6:32 AM, Hossein Lanjanian wrote: Thank Justin for your help What forcefield is most suitable to study this case? The one that your careful study of the literature tells you is the most reliable. It's up to you to justify your choice, not what someone on the Internet tells you :

Re: [gmx-users] g_lie and ligand only simulation

2013-11-02 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/2/13 1:00 AM, Kavyashree M wrote: Dear Gromacs users, I have a protein-ligand in water simulation (Gmx 4.5.3), for calculating free energy of ligand binding, a separate simulation of ligand in water simulation is required (which I read from the list). The question is the protein-ligand i

Re: [gmx-users] Lysozyme in Water at different pH and Ionic strength

2013-11-01 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/1/13 8:39 AM, xiao wrote: It is impossible. But you can add proton to the acidic amino acid. It's certainly not impossible. There are constant-pH methods that exist; the list archive contains many posts on this topic, and more information can be found at: http://www.gromacs.org/Do

Re: [gmx-users] ligand-protein simulation

2013-11-01 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 11/1/13 5:37 AM, xiao wrote: Dear all gromacs users, I have run a protein-ligand simulations. However, the position of the ligand is not reasonable after 10ns simulation. There is no problem with the force field paramers of the ligand. I am trying to constrict the ligand move for 500ps simu

Re: [gmx-users] problem vwith ethanol-water solution

2013-10-31 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 10/31/13 7:03 PM, Ehsan Sadeghi wrote: Thanks Justin, Here is the steps that I followed: pdb2gmx -f eth.pdb -o eth.gro -p eth.top pdb2gmx -f ionomer-4.pdb -o ionomer4.gro -p ionomer4.top editconf -f ionomer4.gro -o box.gro -bt dodecahedron -d 0.5 genbox -cp box.gro -cs spc216.gro -c

Re: [gmx-users] No group in index file?

2013-10-31 Thread Justin Lemkul
this approach makes no sense to me (there is a huge difference between 90 and 130). If the target is 90, set it for 90. Tune the force constant to match the distribution. -Justin Thanks, On Oct 31, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 10/31/13 4:44 PM, Xu Dong Huang wrote: @ Justi

Re: [gmx-users] No group in index file?

2013-10-31 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 10/31/13 4:44 PM, Xu Dong Huang wrote: @ Justin, I did not define [angles] in the topology but I do have the angles result from All-atom run using OPLS forcefield. The reason for me not to include it in MARTINI forcefield topology is because I wanted to see if it will produce similar angle

Re: [gmx-users] No group in index file?

2013-10-31 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 10/31/13 4:22 PM, Xu Dong Huang wrote: @ Justin, That doesn’t sound very good. I tried it as he suggested using make_ndx, it seems to work, but it’s not reporting the result I want. When I use g_angle using the index i created, I chose the group I want to assess (My compound is very simple

Re: [gmx-users] All-bonds vs. H-bonds using CHARMM36

2013-10-31 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 10/31/13 2:21 PM, rajat desikan wrote: Hi, In the CHARMM36 paper (Klauda et al., JPCB 2010), only the hydrogen bonds are constrained for the lipid simulations using SHAKE (excerpt from the paper below) "Consistent for all of these simulations was the use of a 1 fs time step and constraining

Re: [gmx-users] problem vwith ethanol-water solution

2013-10-31 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 10/31/13 2:25 PM, Ehsan Sadeghi wrote: Hi gmx users, I want to solvate nafion molecules in a 3:1 ethanol water solution. I used genbox with -ci option to add ethanol to water when generating the box, but it did not work. Then, first I solvated the ethanol in water, and then added What "di

Re: [gmx-users] No group in index file?

2013-10-31 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 10/31/13 3:59 PM, Riccardo Concu wrote: Dear Xu, you have to use the make_ndx option if I'm not wrong. The syntax should be make_ndx -f xxx.gro -o index.ndx make_ndx is not particularly useful for angles. To get it to recapitulate the function of mk_angndx, it's as much work as writing t

Re: [gmx-users] No group in index file?

2013-10-31 Thread Justin Lemkul
? What version of Gromacs are you using? With 4.6.3, I get sensible output. -Justin Thanks for your input, Xu Huang On Oct 31, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: On 10/31/13 1:36 PM, Xu Dong Huang wrote: Dear all. Since I am interested in finding the average angle, dihedrals in

Re: [gmx-users] No group in index file?

2013-10-31 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 10/31/13 1:36 PM, Xu Dong Huang wrote: Dear all. Since I am interested in finding the average angle, dihedrals in my system, I attempted to use g_angle, but then I realized I need to make index file using mk_angndx, I issued the following: mk_angndx -s npt.tpr -n angle.ndx and then i us

Re: [gmx-users] Grompp note

2013-10-31 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 10/31/13 11:40 AM, Nilesh Dhumal wrote: Could you tell how can I get rid of following warning? WARNING 1 [file test.top, line 263]: The bond in molecule-type BMI between atoms 10 C10 and 23 H23 has an estimated oscillational period of 1.2e-03 ps, which is less than 5 times the tim

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