RE: [gmx-users] reduced units

2013-02-11 Thread Pengzhi Zhang
input. The latter gives values of better sense from my actual example. Sincerely, Pengzhi On 2/11/13 5:26 PM, Pengzhi Zhang wrote: > Justin, I'm a little confused again. Let me put it in a more general > way. If I used everything in .pdb and .trr files in reduced units > {\sigma}

RE: [gmx-users] reduced units

2013-02-11 Thread Pengzhi Zhang
ut is {\sigma}*10. Is it correct? Sincerely, Pengzhi On 2/11/13 5:02 PM, Pengzhi Zhang wrote: > Thanks Justin. > > I do use a .pdb file as the topology file, which is also in Angstrom, > not in full format of pdb though (basically atom index ,name and > coordinates). So in my case, g

RE: [gmx-users] reduced units

2013-02-11 Thread Pengzhi Zhang
understand it correctly? Sincerely, Pengzhi On 2/11/13 4:09 PM, Pengzhi Zhang wrote: > Hello there, > > I'm a gromacs newbie. I am using gromacs function g_anaeig to do > principle component analysis. I use coordinates (converted to be .trr > files for > gromacs) and topology

[gmx-users] reduced units

2013-02-11 Thread Pengzhi Zhang
Hello there, I'm a gromacs newbie. I am using gromacs function g_anaeig to do principle component analysis. I use coordinates (converted to be .trr files for gromacs) and topology from amber. I know that gromacs works with units like nm, kJ/mol etc, while amber with angstrom. Does anyone know tha

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Derive the heme charge

2013-02-02 Thread Rui Zhang
appreciate your valuable suggestion. Best Regards, Rui On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: > > > On 2/2/13 9:30 AM, Rui Zhang wrote: > >> Dear all, >> Could anyone help me on my previous questions? Please reply me... (I know >> it might be a ha

[gmx-users] Re: Derive the heme charge

2013-02-02 Thread Rui Zhang
gards, Rui On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Rui Zhang wrote: > Hello, > > I want to derive the atomic partial charges for heme in chloroperoxidase, > since these parameters cannot be found in the GROMOS53a6 force field. > Chloroperoxidase is a cysteine-ligated heme protein (high sp

[gmx-users] Derive the heme charge

2013-02-01 Thread Rui Zhang
Hello, I want to derive the atomic partial charges for heme in chloroperoxidase, since these parameters cannot be found in the GROMOS53a6 force field. Chloroperoxidase is a cysteine-ligated heme protein (high spin) much like P450. In my work, I want to study the interactions between the protein re

[gmx-users] A Force Field Paper including Heme Proteins

2012-07-31 Thread ZHANG Lu
Dear gromacs users, We just published a paper titled "Force field development for cofactors in the photosystem II" in Journal of Computational Chemistry, which includes the Amber03 compatible force field for heme-B and works well with heme proteins. You may use it for reference at your convenienc

[gmx-users] Help: Anyone worked with "Wall"?

2012-04-05 Thread Huaichen(Bobby) Zhang
lready finished any tasks with this wall algorithm, can you kindly attach your topology files to me? Soo many thanks!!!!! -- Huaichen(Bobby) ZHANG +31 648478172 MSc Sustainable Energy Engineering Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) Eindhoven University of Techno

[gmx-users] Parallel run on multiple nodes

2012-04-04 Thread Huaichen(Bobby) Zhang
un" (hostlist file as follows), the same message as above appeared. " node018 slots=8 node022 slots=8 " While the same commands works well for other softwares. Have anyone encountered similar problem? What is your solution? Thanks in advance! -- Huaichen(Bobby) ZHANG +31 64847817

[gmx-users] bug for TIP4P water in GROMACS ?

2012-02-13 Thread GZ Zhang
Hi, ALL Has anyone heard that there has been a bug in the energy calculation of TIP4P water in older GROMACS (from v3.3 to v4.0.5) ? Thanks ! Guozhen -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at htt

[gmx-users] how does gromacs handle the force on the virtual site of the TIP4P model

2012-02-09 Thread GZ Zhang
Hi, ALL We are writing our own MD program to simulate water and the TIP4P model is being considered. I am wondering that how does GROMACS program handle the force on the massless M site of the TIP4P model? It would be better to be informed the algorithm(or the code in GROMACS). Thanks. Gu

Re: [gmx-users] about temperature coupling

2011-11-20 Thread RuiTing Zhang
Dear Justin and Mark: Thank you for your kind help!I think I figure out the problem Best Regards rtzhang -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search befo

[gmx-users] about temperature coupling

2011-11-20 Thread RuiTing Zhang
Dear gmxusers. I have problems about temperature coupling. Here is my parameter for temperature coupling. ; Berendsen temperature coupling is on in two groups Tcoupl = berendsen tc-grps = System tau_t = 0.1 ref_t = 298 I used "g_traj -f t

[gmx-users] some questions about calculation of dipole ACF

2011-10-18 Thread RuiTing Zhang
I have been performing MD simulation on electrolyte solution recently. And I want to calculate the dipoles between cation-anion pairs. But I have no clue how to achieve this by gromacs. I also want to know the algorithm for command "g_dipole" about how to cheat a system with both molecules and i

[gmx-users] which charge is used in gromacs program

2011-08-31 Thread GZ Zhang
is actually read by gromacs program ? Thanks, Guozhen Zhang -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! Please don't

[gmx-users] proper dihedral types in the topology

2011-08-27 Thread ZHANG Lu
Dear man or madam, I have a question about the dihedral types in the topology. If I made the topology by hand, is it possible to combine the type 9 and type 3 for proper dihedrals? Any comment about that? Thanks. Best, Lu -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.g

[gmx-users] initial temperature ridiculously high

2011-06-15 Thread GZ Zhang
Hi, ALL I met a bizarre in a NVT simulation in which the initial temperature is ridiculously high. Even though I specify the initial temperature to be 200 K. ; GENERATE VELOCITIES FOR STARTUP RUN gen_vel = yes gen_temp = 200.0 gen_seed = 173529 En

Re: [gmx-users] how to simulate crystals in Gromacs

2011-04-06 Thread ZHANG Lu
late crystals in Gromacs From:"Mark Abraham" Date:Thu, April 7, 2011 12:05 pm To: "Discussion list for GROMACS users" ------ On 7/04/2011 1:55 PM, ZHANG Lu wrote: > Dear all, >I am

[gmx-users] how to simulate crystals in Gromacs

2011-04-06 Thread ZHANG Lu
Dear all, I am now trying to simulate crystals in Gromacs. What I did was to convert the original crystal structure in cif format to pdb format and then use genconf to replicate the cells and run MD. Is it proper to do it in this way? Because the structure I got after MD run was completely

[gmx-users] spectral density calculation with GROMACS

2011-03-09 Thread ZHANG Lu
Dear all, I am now developing a set of force field parameters and I want to calculate the spectral density with the normal mode analysis in GROMACS to check my parameters. The point here is that I want to get a plot (spectral density VS frequencies). Could anybody give me some slides or tutor

[gmx-users] Re:Re:Why REMD simulation becomes so slow when the number of replicas becomes large?

2011-02-08 Thread Qiong Zhang
Hi Mark,   Your analyses are quite reasonable. The low-temperature replicas are indeed doing much more work than the high-temperature replicas. As you said, the lowest temperature replica in the 24-replica should take an amount of time comparable to that of the lowest in the 42-replica. So for

Re:Re: [gmx-users] Why REMD simulation becomes so slow when the number of replicas becomes large?

2011-02-07 Thread Qiong Zhang
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[gmx-users] Why REMD simulation becomes so slow when the number of replicas becomes large?

2011-02-07 Thread Qiong Zhang
Dear all gmx-users,   I have recently been testing the REMD simulations. I was running simulations on a supercomputer system based on the AMD Opteron 12-core (2.1 GHz) processors. The Gromacs 4.5.3 version was used.   I have a system of 5172 atoms, of which 138 atoms belong to solute and the

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

2010-12-29 Thread Xiaohua Zhang
5756 0.211.7966 10.2602 17.5768 0.411.7928 10.2594 17.5783 0.611.789 10.2582 17.5799 0.811.7856 10.2552 17.5817 1 11.7831 10.2547 17.5837 1.211.7828 10.2554 17.586 1.411.7846 10.2562 17.5884 1.6 11.7891 10.2582 17.5909 1.811.7942 10.2621 17.5934 Best

[gmx-users] what is the "nicelevel" ?

2010-12-07 Thread GZ Zhang
Hi, ALL I'm using "genbox" to create a water box. There is a flag called "-nice" which is described to be used to set the nicelevel. What is nicelevel ? What does the default value "19" mean ? What if I would like to increase the decimal places (the default is 3) of all numbers. Thanks.

[gmx-users] Re:Re: tpbconv -zeroq results all coulombic energies to zero

2010-12-03 Thread BIN ZHANG
rotein and none of them give me sensible results (the charges are not all set to zero). Is this supposed to be a bug? Thanks, Bin On 2010-12-03 08.45, BIN ZHANG wrote: Hi, all: I was trying to use "tpbconv" to modify the tpr file with the command: tpbconv -s %s.tpr -nsteps -

[gmx-users] tpbconv -zeroq results all coulombic energies to zero

2010-12-02 Thread BIN ZHANG
Hi, all: I was trying to use "tpbconv" to modify the tpr file with the command: tpbconv -s %s.tpr -nsteps -1 -zeroq -n index -o final.tpr It basically sets the charge of one group to zero. However, when I perform mdrun -rerun, all the coulombic energies are zeros, i.e., Coulomb-(SR), Coul.-r

[gmx-users] charmm27 force filed bug for MET residue with vsites in gromacs 4.5.2

2010-11-03 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear all: I used gromacs 4.5.2 to generate the topology for a small protein with charmm27. pdb2gmx_mpi -f 1PIN.pdb -o protein.gro -vsite hydrogen -his -ignh -ter -p topol -nochargegrp When I try to use the topology in grompp, the following error appeared: Fatal error: Can't do GB electrosta

Re: [gmx-users] compiling gromacs4.5 with gpu

2010-09-28 Thread BIN ZHANG
BUILD_SHARED_LIBS and or you can ran "make install" as a workaround until the bug is fixed. Roland On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:02 AM, BIN ZHANG wrote: Hi, there: I was trying to compile gromacs4.5.1 on a GPU cluster (https://secure.nersc.gov/nusers/systems/dirac/ ). The compilation see

[gmx-users] compiling gromacs4.5 with gpu

2010-09-28 Thread BIN ZHANG
Hi, there: I was trying to compile gromacs4.5.1 on a GPU cluster (https://secure.nersc.gov/nusers/systems/dirac/ ). The compilation seems to work fine, but in the installation folder, only "bin/mdrun-gpu" presents. Is it supposed to be so? When I type "./mdrun-gpu -h", the following error

Re: [gmx-users] residue IDs are not ordered in gro file.

2010-09-20 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear Justin: Thanks a lot for your reply. I indeed have missing residues in the second chain. However, when I try pdb2gmx -renum, it renumbers the second chain starting from 1, rather than starting from 817(Nres_1st+1). Thanks, Bin = 816VAL HG131

[gmx-users] residue IDs are not ordered in gro file.

2010-09-19 Thread BIN ZHANG
Hi, there: I found that in gromacs version 4.5.1, the residue ids are not ordered consecutively as before in the .gro file. For example, if I have two chains in the protein, then the residue ids will be ordered with respect to each individual chain, rather than reordered to be a complete

Re: [gmx-users] pulling experiment

2010-09-19 Thread Xiaohua Zhang
work? cheers xiaohua On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: > > > Xiaohua Zhang wrote: > >> Dear gmx-users >> >> I want to design such kind of computer experiment: >> >> For a system composed of non-bonded three layers (carbon nanot

[gmx-users] pulling experiment

2010-09-19 Thread Xiaohua Zhang
unit kJ mol-1 nm-1 but how about group1 ? Could you give me some suggestion? cheers xiaohua -- Xiaohua Zhang Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics Ruoshui Road 398, Suzhou 215123, China Phone: +86 512 62872552 Mobile: +86 137 71904040 Email: zhan...@fudan.edu.cn Email: xhzhang2

[gmx-users] bug in function read_next_vmd_frame

2010-09-19 Thread BIN ZHANG
Hi, there: It seems to me that there was a bug at line 214 of function read_next_vmd_frame() in file ./src/gmxlib/vmdio.c. vec[0] = .1*ts.A; vec[1] = .1*ts.B; vec[2] = .1*ts.B; should be changed to : vec[0] = .1*ts.A; vec[1] = .1*ts.B; vec[2] = .1*ts.C; This is identified in gromacs4.5.1 ve

[gmx-users] Re: cutoff for implicit solvent in gromacs4.5

2010-08-09 Thread BIN ZHANG
noted. There can be many reasons for your seg. fault, however. Did you do energy minimization before starting md? Please also test the same system with using a cut-off to see if that works. /Per 8 aug 2010 kl. 22.36 skrev BIN ZHANG: > But the problem is with this set up, I will always

[gmx-users] cutoff for implicit solvent in gromacs4.5

2010-08-08 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear all: I have a question about the appropriate cut-off usage in implicit solvent simulation. After googling for a while, I found most references mentioning using non cut-off for these type of simulations. For non cut-off, I assume in gromacs using the following parameters: coulombtype

Subject: [gmx-users] to visualise protein conformation after every 1ns

2010-07-16 Thread Cun Zhang
You can use the command trjconv to obtain them. trjconv -s md -f md -dt 1000 -o out.pdb For more information, please see the help of trjconv. Zhang Cun > Message: 7 > Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:32:36 +0530 (IST) > From: sonali dhindwal > Subject: [gmx-users] to visualise protein

[gmx-users] why the pulling force between Graphite and CNT is repulsive force?

2010-07-15 Thread Cun Zhang
MX? Thank you! Yours, Zhang Cun The main mdp parameters is as follow: dt = 0.0005 energygrps = CNT GRA ; CNT is the group of Carbon Nanotube,GRA is the group of graphite vdw-type = Cut-off rvdw= 1

Re: [gmx-users] OPLS-AA topologies for ATP

2010-06-23 Thread BIN ZHANG
yce/amber#cof However, I would also ask is there a specific reason you wish to use OPLS-AA/L? If not then it is probably easier to use one of the AMBER forcefields with these parameters as you do not need to do any testing (or wait for me to publish my work!) Cheers Tom BIN ZHANG wrote:

Re: [gmx-users] OPLS-AA topologies for ATP

2010-06-22 Thread BIN ZHANG
Hi, I recently made up a topology for ADP. You can probably modify it to ATP easily. I used native OPLS atom types based on the DNA parameters (http://rnp-group.genebee.msu.su/3d/ff.htm ). The charges are copied from CHARMM27. Also, there is one dihedral angle missing, again, copied from CHA

[gmx-users] converting amber parameter to OPLS

2010-06-09 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear all: I'm considering to convert the ATP/ADP parameters from amber (http://www.pharmacy.manchester.ac.uk/bryce/amber ) into OPLS format. My question is, have you guys done similar things? If so, can you give me some information on what kind of thing I should be aware of? Like the scaling

[gmx-users] implicit solvent in CVS

2010-05-23 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear all: I know this question has been asked many times, but it's still tempting for me to ask it again ;-). Could any one suggest a mdp file, including the proper parameter setting, for implicit solvent simulation in gromacs? From all the clues I gathered (the roadmap, the source code),

[gmx-users] Re: gmx-users Digest, Vol 73, Issue 98

2010-05-17 Thread Cun Zhang
Justin, Yes,it's fixed. Thank you. Zhang Cun > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 07:15:31 -0400 > From: "Justin A. Lemkul" > Subject: Re: [gmx-users] About wiki error > To: Discussion list for GROMACS users > Message-ID: <4bf12553.2070...@vt.edu> >

[gmx-users] About wiki error

2010-05-17 Thread Cun Zhang
Hi, there seems two errors in the following page: http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/NVT say NVT is microcanonical ensemble. and http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/NVE say NVE is canonical ensemble. I register at wiki, but haven't authority to modify them. Can anybo

[gmx-users] Re: python wrapper from libxdr?

2010-05-10 Thread BIN ZHANG
downloaded from the GROMACS website: http://www.gromacs.org/index.php?title=Download_%26_Installation Roland On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:42 PM, BIN ZHANG wrote: Dear all: I found this really interesting email on the mail list about the python wrapper for the xdrfile library: http

[gmx-users] python wrapper from libxdr?

2010-05-10 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear all: I found this really interesting email on the mail list about the python wrapper for the xdrfile library: http://oldwww.gromacs.org/pipermail/gmx-developers/2009-March/003176.html But unfortunately the link for the python files are not valid anymore. I am wondering whether this proj

Re: [gmx-users] two reference groups in pull code

2010-04-09 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear Chris: Thanks very much for the info. I will take a look at the source code and see how far I can go.;-) Bin On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:38 AM, chris.ne...@utoronto.ca wrote: Dear Bin: What you request is not currently possible with any distribution up to gmx-4.0.7 (I don't know if it is i

[gmx-users] two reference groups in pull code

2010-04-09 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear all: Reading about the gromacs4 manual, I couldn't figure out a way to apply two sets of pulling simultaneously in gromacs? I know you can specify a second group using pull_group2, but it has to use the same reference group in pull_group0, correct? Then I don't understand how one can a

Re: [gmx-users] output forces between group of atoms

2010-03-28 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear Mark: Thanks a lot for all the suggestions. They are really illuminating. Sincerely, Bin On Mar 26, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Mark Abraham wrote: On 27/03/2010 8:24 AM, BIN ZHANG wrote: Dear all: In gromacs, is it possible to output forces between two groups of atoms? Yes. Run a

[gmx-users] output forces between group of atoms

2010-03-26 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear all: In gromacs, is it possible to output forces between two groups of atoms? Or is it possible to decompose forces into separate parts, like for LJ, and electrostatics? Thanks, Bin -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users

Re: [gmx-users] gromacs 4.0 on CRAY-XT4

2010-03-17 Thread BIN ZHANG
(there were problems with Gromacs and PGI before). Roland On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:27 PM, BIN ZHANG wrote: Dear mark, and Roland: Thanks for all the suggestions. I was confused gromacs4 paper with another one by Erik Lindahl. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19229308 ) Since there the

Re: [gmx-users] gromacs 4.0 on CRAY-XT4

2010-03-17 Thread BIN ZHANG
benckmark, on a cray-xt4 machine. Here is also a link for the machine I'm working on: http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/systems/franklin/ Bin. On Mar 17, 2010, at 1:39 AM, Roland Schulz wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Mark Abraham wrote: On 17/03/2010 6:19 PM, BIN ZHANG wrote:

Re: [gmx-users] gromacs 4.0 on CRAY-XT4

2010-03-17 Thread BIN ZHANG
protein and I'm using berger lipid/OPLS-AA force filed. Thanks Bin On Mar 17, 2010, at 12:02 AM, Mark Abraham wrote: On 17/03/2010 5:43 PM, BIN ZHANG wrote: Dear all: I was trying to build gromacs 4.0 on a cray-xt4 machine, the same one as the benchmark in the gromacs4 paper (). Howe

[gmx-users] gromacs 4.0 on CRAY-XT4

2010-03-16 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear all: I was trying to build gromacs 4.0 on a cray-xt4 machine, the same one as the benchmark in the gromacs4 paper (). However, my timing for a similar system, ~100,000 atoms, is almost 3 times slower than in the paper. For example, I only got ~25 ns/day with 128 cpus. So is there any

Re: [gmx-users] mix berger ff with opls

2010-03-16 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear Chris: Now it makes all sense. Thanks a lot. And your method surly works great. Bin On Mar 15, 2010, at 9:23 AM, chris.ne...@utoronto.ca wrote: Dear Bin, I think that you are getting confused here between different publications. It was the Lindahl, E., and O. Edholm. 2000. paper tha

Re: [gmx-users] mix berger ff with opls

2010-03-14 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear Chris: Thanks a lot for your reply. That's really helpful. Now I have a further question: "1,4 electrostatic inter-actions were reduced a factor of 2 and 1,4 Lennard?Jones interactions a factor of 8." I can understand that the LJ1-4 can be reduced by simply scale epsilon in [pairty

[gmx-users] mix berger ff with opls

2010-03-12 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear all: I was trying to convert the lipid.itp downloaded from Tieleman's website to the format compatible with OPLS. I basically followed the procedure in this post, which is really helpful: http://www.mail-archive.com/gmx-users@gromacs.org/msg03459.html But there is one comment there I d

[gmx-users] Re:problem with interaction energy calculated by g_energy

2010-03-10 Thread Qiong Zhang
the interaction energy (E_inter = E_(1+2) - E_1 - E_2). They also used PME to deal with the long range electrostatic interaction. The force field they used is charmm. Any advice or comment are welcome! Thank you very much in advance. Qiong On 10/03/2010 7:56 AM, Qiong Zhang wrote: Hi dear Mark

[gmx-users] Re:problem with interaction energy calculated by g_energy

2010-03-09 Thread Qiong Zhang
ot be decomposed group-wise." Maybe a better way to overcome this is using the formula: E_interact=E_tot(1-2)-E_tot(1)-E_tot(2) Do you agree with this? I am highly appreciative for all your help! Qiong On 9/03/2010 9:32 PM, Qiong Zhang wrote: Hi gmx users, I found the big discrepancy b

[gmx-users] Re:problem with interaction energy calculated by g_energy

2010-03-09 Thread Qiong Zhang
? Thank you very much! Qiong [gmx-users] Re:problem with interaction energy calculated byg_energy Qiong Zhang Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:17:02 -0800 Hi dear Mark, Please ignor my last mail replied to you. I made some mistake

[gmx-users] Re:problem with interaction energy calculated by g_energy

2010-03-09 Thread Qiong Zhang
you use in such interaction energy calculations? Thank you very much!   Qiong   --- On Tue, 3/9/10, Qiong Zhang wrote: From: Qiong Zhang Subject: Re:problem with interaction energy calculated by g_energy To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 4:27 PM Hi dea

[gmx-users] Re:problem with interaction energy calculated by g_energy

2010-03-09 Thread Qiong Zhang
e excluded. Am I right here? For the second summing up problem, I am still checking all the input file, especially the index file. Thank you very much! Qiong - Original Message - From: Qiong Zhang Date: Monday, March 8, 2010 20:35 Subject: [gmx-users] problem with interaction energy ca

[gmx-users] problem with interaction energy calculated by g_energy

2010-03-08 Thread Qiong Zhang
Dear gmx users, I am studying the adsorption behavior of a molecule ( molecule 1) on a surface (molecules 2). Based on the production run, I calculated the interaction energy between molecule 1 and molecules 2 by g_energy. Here comes the first question: Why only short range interactions between

Re: [gmx-users] about the traj modification

2010-01-12 Thread Chao Zhang
You may first use make_ndx to create the index file then use trjconv to save the sub-system. On Jan 12, 2010, at 7:14 PM, zh.li wrote: > Dear all, > > I want to remove the water molecules in the original traj file (run.xtc) > to save the space, so that I should use the command “trjconv”.

[gmx-users] Exceeding of Maximum allowed number of DD cells

2010-01-10 Thread Chao Zhang
Dear GMX-Users, I'm testing my 256 full hydrated lipid on blue gene. The purpose is to find out the right number for "-npme", as mdrun can not estimate itself successfully. I met the problem that how to match the maxinum allowed number for DD cells with large number of CPU cores. My simulation

[gmx-users] How to add NaCl to bulk liquid water

2009-12-09 Thread GZ Zhang
Hi, All Given the configuration file of a bulk SPCE water system, how can I add a Na+ and Cl- into it using some gromacs or vmd tool? I tried autoionize tool in vmd, but failed due to no psf file; then I tried autopsfgen tool, failed again due to no proper topology file that can recognize SPC

[gmx-users] Re: How to make carbon nanotube infinite?

2009-11-30 Thread Cun Zhang
script. I will read the doucment you mentioned carefully . And I will fix these notes and warnings as grompp and mdrun suggest. Thank you for your help ! Cun Zhang > Again, heed the note. I cannot think of a solid reason for a modern > simulation > being conducted using cutoff elect

[gmx-users] Re: How to make carbon nanotube infinite?

2009-11-24 Thread Cun Zhang
Thank you, Justin ! I have add the output generated by grompp and mdrun at the end. > Cun Zhang wrote: > > hi, Justin. Thank you for your patience ! > > > > I'm still in trouble with infinite CNT simulation. > > > > I'm trying to simulate the

Re: [gmx-users] How to make carbon nanotube infinite?

2009-11-24 Thread Cun Zhang
have no repetitive rows I upload a log file for more information in there ( http://4message.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/CNT.tar.bz2 ) Cun Zhang wrote: > > Hi, Justin. > > Thank you for your help! I was intended to reply the third question > > after I retryed the simulation u

[gmx-users] Re: gmx-users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 110

2009-11-20 Thread Cun Zhang
Hi, Justin. Thank you for your help! I was intended to reply the third question after I retryed the simulation under your advice,but I haven't enough time to do it. It's too late :) Just now, I do a simulation. All seems ok. I will check it again. Thank you again! Cun Zhang > &g

Re: [gmx-users] How to make carbon nanotube infinite?

2009-11-19 Thread Cun Zhang
Justin, thanks for your reply. By the way, your GMX tutorials is great! I post the gro file and mdp file at the end. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: > > Not possible, Gromacs 4.1 hasn't been released :) If you're using version > 4.0.1, you shouldn't, because it has a

[gmx-users] How to make carbon nanotube infinite?

2009-11-19 Thread Cun Zhang
Hi,gmx users, I want to set CNT infinite in the system of CNT and water.  I'm using GMX 4.1,so I have set pbc=xyz, periodic_molecules=yes in mdp file. I set the box size larger than CNT's length a C-C bond(half up and half down).  If I don't do a EM, it will crumble. But if I do it,it can't satisfy

[gmx-users] virtual sites

2009-05-12 Thread zhang
Dear users, I use the Cationic Dummy Atom methods by Pang to simulate a protein containing Zn2+. How to get the parameters in [ virtual_sites? ] section? I use the model 4fd. In the following example, how to get the value of parameters a, b and d? [ virtual sites4 ] ;

Re: [gmx-users] How to set up the cut-off radius

2009-05-08 Thread Yinhe Zhang
ou can increase fft grid spacing a little (just try several values little larger)to lower PME mesh load to better distribute the computation among nodes. Regards, Yinhe Zhang ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailm

Re: [gmx-users] help: z-direction component of box vector becomes 0.00000 when using pdc = xy after

2009-05-07 Thread Yinhe Zhang
pe= SI SI; wall_density= 7.12 7.12 ; nm^{-2}, number density, 200 atom in 5.3x5.3nm^2 - Regards, Yinhe Zhang On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Berk Hess wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to reproduce this, but I did not succ

[gmx-users] How to concatenate several input trajector y files in sorted order in GMX4.01

2009-05-06 Thread zhang
Dear all: I extended a mdrun in GMX4.01,and the two trajectory files can not been concatenated,i.e.the "trjcat"command is invalid in GMX4.01. How to solve this question? Thank you very much! Sincerely Zhang,Rui ShanDong university___

Re:[gmx-users] extending simulations

2009-05-06 Thread zhang
You can use the mdrun command: How to restart a crashed run. The mdrun program now uses a very handy checkpointing feature. Restarting crashed runs is easy with mdrun. mdrun -s prev.tpr -f prev.trr -e prev.edr -o prev.trr –g prev.log –cpi -append 在2009-05-06,"Anna Marabotti" 写道: >Dear al

[gmx-users] help: z-direction component of box vector becomes 0.00000 when using pdc = xy after

2009-05-05 Thread Yinhe Zhang
s E_x = 1 -0.55 0 Regards, Yinhe Zhang ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/search before posting! Please don't post (un

Re: [gmx-users] Density Problem

2009-04-26 Thread Zhang Hui
The water box is about 10nm in z direction. x and y box sizes are about 3.3nm. Hui On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Mark Abraham wrote: > Zhang Hui wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> I just found that there is a problem when I extract the density >> of wat

[gmx-users] Density Problem

2009-04-24 Thread Zhang Hui
ingle precision. Thanks for your help. Hui Zhang ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/search before posting! Please don'

[gmx-users] Density Problem

2009-04-24 Thread Zhang Hui
ingle precision. Thanks for your help. Hui Zhang <>___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/search before posting! Please don

Re: [gmx-users] Genbox problem with TIP4P water with OPLS

2009-02-18 Thread Chao Zhang
Hi Mark, I think 3.3.2, does it be fixed in 4.0? Chao On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Mark Abraham wrote: > Chao Zhang wrote: > >> Dear gmx-user, >> >> I try to build a pure water box in Gromacs, so I just solved one water as >> solute with genbox. >> &

[gmx-users] Genbox problem with TIP4P water with OPLS

2009-02-18 Thread Chao Zhang
lvent molecules to topology file (test.top) -- Chao Zhang ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at

[gmx-users] Bug in g_energy for calculating heat capacity?

2008-12-20 Thread Zhang Zhigang
Hi, all, Actually I think others have also noticed this "bug": g_energy often generate incorrect heat capacity. When I checked the source code of gmx_energy.c, I found the calculation of heat capacity is only related with the fluctuation of temperature, which is actually the algorithm for NVE

[gmx-users] CGMD timestep

2008-12-11 Thread BIN ZHANG
Dear all: Has anyone tried to run a NVE simulation for the coarse grained dynamics using MARTINI force field? It's a little weird to me that 1fs/ step needs to be used to conserve the energy when protein is present in the system. Does this make sense? Thanks a lot. Bin --

[gmx-users] Re: Re: How to calculate the local electric field?

2008-12-04 Thread Zhang Zhigang
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gmx-users] How to calculate the local electric field? > To: Discussion list for GROMACS users > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Zhang Zhigang wrote: > > Hi, all, > &

[gmx-users] How to calculate the local electric field?

2008-12-03 Thread Zhang Zhigang
Hi, all, Is it possible to use an established program in Gromacs 4.0 package to analysis the distributions of the local electric fields? Let me explain the situation clearer as following: In a pure water system, each molecule would "feel" a local electric field (from the other molecu

Re: RE: [gmx-users] Re: About entropic contribution to the potential of mean force

2008-11-30 Thread Zhang Zhigang
Dear Angel, Firstly I would quote a sentence of the manual: "Whether one needs to correct for this contribution depends on what the PMF should represent." Secondly, in my opinion, the so-called entropic contribution to the PMF (we abbreviate it as P0) is a kind of reference PMF. That is to s

[gmx-users] Re: About entropic contribution to the potential of mean force

2008-11-26 Thread Zhang Zhigang
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[gmx-users] About entropic contribution to the potential of mean force

2008-11-26 Thread Zhang Zhigang
Hi, In the manual of gromacs, the entropic contribution to the pmf is emphasized. In my opinion, this contribution is originated from the rotations of the constrained groups. However, according to the manual suggestion, "...when calculating a PMF between two solutes in a solvent, for the pu

Re: [gmx-users] coarse grain in gromacs

2008-11-24 Thread BIN ZHANG
? Thanks in advance. Bin On Nov 24, 2008, at 1:32 AM, Xavier Periole wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:48:52 -0800 BIN ZHANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, all: Has anyone done the coarse graining using MARTINI force field? Could you give me any suggestion on how to build a

[gmx-users] coarse grain in gromacs

2008-11-23 Thread BIN ZHANG
Hi, all: Has anyone done the coarse graining using MARTINI force field? Could you give me any suggestion on how to build a coarse grained model from the AA system? I checked the website(http://md.chem.rug.nl/~marrink/MARTINI/Coordinates.html ) and it seems to me they only provide a scrip

[gmx-users] About the gromacs 4.0 manual and parallel running

2008-11-06 Thread Zhang Zhigang
Hi, I'm using the newly published Gromacs 4.0 package these days. Compared with the prior versions, this version seems to have been improved a lot. From the ftp site, I've downloaded a manual for this version. But this manual seems to be incompleted, which can be revealed in the descriptions of

[gmx-users] Problems of test particle insertion with gromacs 4.0

2008-11-03 Thread Zhang Zhigang
Hi all, I'm trying to use gromacs 4.0 to carried out some calculations with test particle insertion algorithm. Here are my operations: 0. Carried out a common NPT simulation with N molecules, I got the .trr file; 1. prepare .top and .gro with N+1 molecules (including the test particle);

[gmx-users] membrane protein energy minimization error

2008-09-19 Thread zhang
Dear all Thank you for browsing my question.When I run a K ion channel, I added DOPC bilayer membrane, at the first mdrun, Gromacs program got Range checking error: Explanation: During neighborsearching, we assign each particle to a grid based on its coordinates. If your system contains

[gmx-users] ask for help

2008-09-19 Thread zhang
Dear all Thank you for browsing my question.When I run a K ion channel, I added DOPC bilayer membrane, at the first mdrun, Gromacs program got Range checking error: Explanation: During neighborsearching, we assign each particle to a grid based on its coordinates. If your system contains co

[gmx-users] How to calculate van der Waals potential between a given residue and the rest of residues in the protein?

2008-08-31 Thread Limei Zhang
Dear all, Is it possible to use GROMACS function(s) to calculate the averaged van der Waals potential /Coulomb potential between a given residue and the rest residues in the protein during a certain time of simulation? Thanks, LZhang ___

[gmx-users]D Gsol from g_sas calculation

2008-07-16 Thread limei zhang
Hi to all, I did surface calculation on a protein either with or without Cu-binding, using g_sas with exactly the same parameter setting. For the delta solvation energy from the output file (the the 5th column in the output file with a label of D Gsol), non-Cu bound protein gives all 0, but

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