RE: [gmx-users] FES and FE molecule topology

2010-06-08 Thread Kukol, Andreas
Including Fe2+ should not be very difficult, look at the definitions for Cu2+ or others in ffG53a6.nb or any other forcefield you want to use. You need to find the correct Lennard-Jones parameters C6 and C12 and then validate your model. I am not sure, what the FES molecule is, but developing a

Re: [gmx-users] Regarding genconf

2010-06-08 Thread nikhil damle
Hi Vinod, How did you build your top file for input to grompp ? genconf would have given you a multiplied system in .gro structure format. I think you should generate .top file from this .gro file using pdb2gmx and then use that as grompp input. Regards, Nikhil _

Re: [gmx-users] Regarding genconf

2010-06-08 Thread jani vinod
Thanks for reply ,The problem is solved .The problem was with topology file . On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: > > > jani vinod wrote: > >> Hello, >> I build a system solvated in water . >> Then replicated the system using genconf. Now when I am running grompp i >> am >> g

[gmx-users] which flag for the force

2010-06-08 Thread Sebastian Waltz
Hi all, I want to get the forces out of the .trr file using the template.c given. My question is what flag should I use in the last loop to get the force f? I don't find anything in the directory which is given in the example. Thanks -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lis

[gmx-users] PMF in vacuum and pull direction (chris.ne...@utoronto.ca)

2010-06-08 Thread Eudes Fileti
Hello Chris, thanks for the tips, they were very helpful. Now a new problem appeared. I'm trying to separate the two benzene molecules from one another while maintaining the displacement vector aligned with the z axis. For that I have used "pull_geometry = direction". However, at the end of the sim

[gmx-users] Environment Day

2010-06-08 Thread manjubfs
Hi ,Happy world environment day! This is our only home and look what we are doing to it. Years of neglecting nature - our most precious resource - has caused damage all around the world, and it will only get worse if the exploitation continues. There is a movement lead by organizations like Gr

[gmx-users] tutorial of free energy calculations

2010-06-08 Thread fancy2012
Dear GMX users, I don't know why I can't open the tutorial of free energy calculations on this website http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Tutorials. Can you open it? Thanks very much! All the best, fancy-- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [gmx-users] How to increase the tolerance for conjugate gradient minimization

2010-06-08 Thread Arthur Roberts
I agree the code is fine. Is there a parameter that I need to change to increase the tolerance? I have issues energy minimizing a small molecule in the presence of a macromolecule. One work around is to increase the energy of the small molecule, so that the macromolecule no longer domina

[gmx-users] NPT system density

2010-06-08 Thread Moeed
Hello, I have 125 hexane molecules in a box of 0.25nm3. The desnity I calculate from this number of molecules is approx. 71000 Kg/m3. To make sure that the density remains constant I am doing NPT simulation. From this simulation I see the density is 577 Kg/m3. and the volume is 30 nm3. Please guid

[gmx-users] PBC

2010-06-08 Thread shahab shariati
Morteza Khabiri wrote: Dear users I have a dimer protein in the water box. It was run for 30ns. during the simulation dimer split to two monomer. This things happen bc of PBC. ( I checked it by vmd pbc option ) to have a two monomer together during trajectories (for visualization) I have

[gmx-users] implementing a pulsed, time-dependent electric field in gromacs

2010-06-08 Thread fangyong yan
Dear all: After I read the paper, "Picosecond Melting of Ice by an Infrared Laser Pulse: A Simulation Study" (Carl Caleman and David van der Spoel, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 47, 1417-1420), I decided to implement a time-dependent electric field on my simulation system. But when I read the groma

Re: [gmx-users] How to increase the tolerance for conjugate gradient minimization

2010-06-08 Thread Ran Friedman
Hi Arthur, The most useful option from my experience is to run Gromacs in double precision. You also can try to make emstep smaller (after an initial minimisation of the crude structure) and use l-bfgs. Good luck, Ran -- -- Ran Friedman Postdo

Re: [gmx-users] which flag for the force

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Abraham
- Original Message - From: Sebastian Waltz Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 18:48 Subject: [gmx-users] which flag for the force To: gmx-users@gromacs.org > Hi all, > > I want to get the forces out of the .trr file using the > template.c given. My question is what flag should I use in > the la

[gmx-users] add external force

2010-06-08 Thread Ting Zhou
Hi, I would like to add an external force f(x) on some atoms during the simulation, where x is the Cartesian coordinates of these atoms. Each component of the force can only be calculated with the whole set of coordinates, i.e., (f1, f2, ..., fn) = f(x1, x2, ..., xn) Is there a possible way

Re: [gmx-users] add external force

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Abraham
- Original Message - From: Ting Zhou Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 19:13 Subject: [gmx-users] add external force To: gmx-users@gromacs.org > Hi, > > I would like to add an external force f(x) on some atoms during > the simulation, where x is the Cartesian coordinates of these atoms. >

Re: [gmx-users] add external force

2010-06-08 Thread Ting Zhou
On 06/08/2010 11:18 AM, Mark Abraham wrote: - Original Message - From: Ting Zhou Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 19:13 Subject: [gmx-users] add external force To: gmx-users@gromacs.org > Hi, > > I would like to add an external force f(x) on some atoms during > the simulation, where x

[gmx-users] helical parameters for DNA

2010-06-08 Thread shahab shariati
Hi gromacs users I want to simulate pr-dna by gromacs.I read a article (Biophysical Journal 87(6) 3799–3813) inwhich helical parameters for DNA (rise, slide, twist, roll, tilt, shift) calculated by md simulation, but I did not understand two things: How and what command these parameters were cal

Re: [gmx-users] NPT system density

2010-06-08 Thread Erik Marklund
Hi, For one thing; to keep density constant (as in fixed) you want NVT, not NPT. NPT could, depending on your starting state, allow for initial drift in the system size. Cheers, Erik Marklund Moeed skrev: Hello, I have 125 hexane molecules in a box of 0.25nm3. The desnity I calculate fro

Re: [gmx-users] helical parameters for DNA

2010-06-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
shahab shariati wrote: Hi gromacs users I want to simulate pr-dna by gromacs.I read a article (Biophysical Journal 87(6) 3799–3813) inwhich helical parameters for DNA (rise, slide, twist, roll, tilt, shift) calculated by md simulation, but I did not understand two things: How and what co

[gmx-users] PMF in vacuum and pull direction

2010-06-08 Thread chris . neale
Dear Eudes: You can make my job a whole lot easier! First, please go back through all of the comments that I gave you last time and reply to them one by one. Did you do them? What did you see? Second, please include your new .mdp and some quantitative results to better explain what you see

[gmx-users] thermodynamic integration yields different values in gromacs 3.3.1 and later versions

2010-06-08 Thread Schneck
Dear Gromacs users, I am doing thermodynamic integration in order to compute the change in free energy upon increasing the electric charges of a water molecule from zero (lambda=0) to its actual partial charges (lambda=1). I get significantly different results of with Gromacs 3.3.1 on one hand a

[gmx-users] Re: helical parameters for DNA

2010-06-08 Thread Attilio Vargiu
Hello, you can use for example Curves (Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. 17 5917-5929) or 3DNA (http://rutchem.rutgers.edu/~xiangjun/3DNA/index.html) to calculate them from any trajectory, I did but never used gromacs for this, I don't know if it is possible. Hope this helps, Best Attilio

Re: [gmx-users] thermodynamic integration yields different values in gromacs 3.3.1 and later versions

2010-06-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
schn...@uni-heidelberg.de wrote: Dear Gromacs users, I am doing thermodynamic integration in order to compute the change in free energy upon increasing the electric charges of a water molecule from zero (lambda=0) to its actual partial charges (lambda=1). I get significantly different results

Re: [gmx-users] add external force

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Abraham
- Original Message - From: Ting Zhou Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 19:26 Subject: Re: [gmx-users] add external force To: Discussion list for GROMACS users > On 06/08/2010 11:18 AM, Mark Abraham wrote: > > > > > >- Original Message - > >From: Ting Zhou > >Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2

[gmx-users] Simulation with CsCl

2010-06-08 Thread Cecilia Fernándz Gauna
Hi all: I am trying to simulate a polysaccharide in solution of water and CsCl, but cesium is not parametrized in the gromacs 4. I am using the force field GROMOS 96. I have looked for the parameters of Cs+ in the OPLS Force field and I have created 4 files: Cs.atp, Cs.itp, Csnb.itp and Cs.rtp. Al

Re: [gmx-users] Simulation with CsCl

2010-06-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Cecilia Fernándz Gauna wrote: Hi all: I am trying to simulate a polysaccharide in solution of water and CsCl, but cesium is not parametrized in the gromacs 4. I am using the force field GROMOS 96. I have looked for the parameters of Cs+ in the OPLS Force field and I have created 4 files: Cs.

[gmx-users] PMF in vacuum and pull direction (chris.ne...@utoronto.ca)

2010-06-08 Thread Eudes Fileti
Dear Chris, I'm so sorry for surperficial email. You are correct because in the previous message I forgot to mention that now the simulation was performed in water (naturally with PBC). The main parameters of the simulation are given below. As I said, I wish to keep the displacement of the pulled m

[gmx-users] 100 step md run: Infinite giga flopses error

2010-06-08 Thread Sai Pooja
Hi, I am running a very short md run for 100 steps and I get the Infinite giga flopses error. I stored info at every step to check if the simulation is running. And the log file has all the variables for each time-step with reasonable values. I don't understand the meaning of the message at the e

Re: [gmx-users] 100 step md run: Infinite giga flopses error

2010-06-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Sai Pooja wrote: Hi, I am running a very short md run for 100 steps and I get the Infinite giga flopses error. I stored info at every step to check if the simulation is running. And the log file has all the variables for each time-step with reasonable values. I don't understand the meaning

[gmx-users] Re: Simulation with CsCl

2010-06-08 Thread Vitaly Chaban
> Hi all: > I am trying to simulate a polysaccharide in solution of water and CsCl, but > cesium is not parametrized in the gromacs 4. I am using the force > field GROMOS 96. > I have looked for the parameters of Cs+ in the OPLS Force field and I have > created 4 files: Cs.atp, Cs.itp, Csnb.itp and

[gmx-users] gromacs (git) with charmm FF lipid freezing problem

2010-06-08 Thread David Caplan
Hello, I am trying to simulate a DPPC bilayer, 180 lipids total, ~13000 TIP3 and 50 K, 50 Cl counter-ions. The standard charmm27r DPPC parameters have very large charge groups, so I went through them and made them smaller (4 atoms each, on average), following the comments from grompp. I have tried

[gmx-users] printing coordinates using template.c

2010-06-08 Thread Chandan Choudhury
Hello gmx users !! I was trying to use template.c. There I printed out the coordinates of a trajectory file using the printf statement as under: printf("Coordinates at t=%8.3f : %8.5f %8.5f %8.5f\n",fr.time,fr.x[n][XX],fr.x[n][YY],fr.x[n][ZZ]); The output was Reading frame 100 time 4400.000

Re: [gmx-users] printing coordinates using template.c

2010-06-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Chandan Choudhury wrote: Hello gmx users !! I was trying to use template.c. There I printed out the coordinates of a trajectory file using the printf statement as under: printf("Coordinates at t=%8.3f : %8.5f %8.5f %8.5f\n",fr.time,fr.x[n][XX],fr.x[n][YY],fr.x[n][ZZ]); The output was Re

[gmx-users] Re: printing coordinates using template.c

2010-06-08 Thread Vitaly Chaban
Chandan - Hmm... What's the problem? template.c gives the numbers in NANOMETERS while PDB file contains them in ANGSTROMS. To my knowledge, nowadays gromacs people use XDRFILE library to work with trajectories - http://www.gromacs.org/index.php?title=Download_%26_Installation -- Dr. Vitaly Chab

RE: [gmx-users] PME problem on BG/P cluster

2010-06-08 Thread LuLanyuan
Dear Mark, When I set NOASSEMBLYLOOPS to 1, the simulation could be finished without any problem. So I guess it's related to the assembly loops for BG. Thanks, Lanyuan From: mark.abra...@anu.edu.au To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 03:31:33 +1000 Subject: Re: [gmx-users] PME probl

[gmx-users] PMF in vacuum and pull direction

2010-06-08 Thread chris . neale
Dear Eudes: This is better, but I'm afraid that I'm going to have to insist on getting everything I asked for. Please see my previous message. Chris. -- original message -- Dear Chris, I'm so sorry for surperficial email. You are correct because in the previous message I forgot to mention t

[gmx-users] PMF in vacuum and pull direction (chris.ne...@utoronto.ca)

2010-06-08 Thread Eudes Fileti
Hello Chris, thanks for the reply. Below his message commented walkthrough. In your email you asked me for quantitative results. All I have so far is a visual inspection of the pulling trajectory. All I can see are the two molecules moving linearly away from each other in a rectangular box of dimen

Re: [gmx-users] tutorial of free energy calculations

2010-06-08 Thread Sai Kumar Ramadugu
HI Its not working for me either. But for free energy tutorials using GROMACS, I think the one written by Prof Mobley is like Bible. The link is as follows: http://www.dillgroup.ucsf.edu/group/wiki/index.php/Free_Energy:_Tutorial But the one written by Prof Alan Mark (who is now in Queensland Univ

Re: [gmx-users] 100 step md run: Infinite giga flopses error

2010-06-08 Thread Sai Pooja
Thanks Justin. I think you are right. I always encounter this problem with extremely small runs. On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: > > > Sai Pooja wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am running a very short md run for 100 steps and I get the Infinite giga >> flopses error. I stored in

Re: [gmx-users] Thr -> Met in TI calculation

2010-06-08 Thread Sai Kumar Ramadugu
Hi Fancy, The following link shows the change from p-cresol to Toluene. So follow the steps in the same by converting threonine to methionine. http://compbio.chemistry.uq.edu.au/education/Free-Energy_Course/0.introduction.html Regards Sai 2010/6/5 fancy2012 > Dear GMX users, > > I want to c

[gmx-users] Re: thermodynamic integration yields different values..

2010-06-08 Thread Schneck
Dear Gromacs users, it seems what I have stumbled upon is a known bug of Version 3.3.1. Here are the corresponding discussions: http://bugzilla.gromacs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175 http://www.mail-archive.com/gmx-users@gromacs.org/msg12180.html Best Emanuel -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@g

Re: RE: [gmx-users] PME problem on BG/P cluster

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Abraham
- Original Message - From: LuLanyuan Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 2:10 Subject: RE: [gmx-users] PME problem on BG/P cluster To: gmx-users@gromacs.org --- | > Dear Mark, > When I set NOASSEMBLYLOOPS to 1, the simulation could

[gmx-users] Reduced LJ Units

2010-06-08 Thread Sai Pooja
Hi, I have trouble searching mailing lists so I apologize if this has already been answered in some query. If sigma=epsilon=mass=1 is specified in .top file then for specifying T*=1 in the Thermostat does one need to set ref_t ~ 120 ? Similarly, to specify ref_p for the Barostat, is there a sim

Re: [gmx-users] Reduced LJ Units

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Abraham
- Original Message - From: Sai Pooja Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 8:07 Subject: [gmx-users] Reduced LJ Units To: Discussion list for GROMACS users > Hi, > I have trouble searching mailing lists so I apologize if this has already > been answered in some query.> > If sigma=epsilon=mass=

RE: [gmx-users] PME problem on BG/P cluster

2010-06-08 Thread LuLanyuan
Thanks, Mark. I've post it on the bugzilla. I'm glad to try the new assembly loops on BG/P as well. Lanyuan From: mark.abra...@anu.edu.au To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 07:48:26 +1000 Subject: Re: RE: [gmx-users] PME problem on BG/P cluster - Original Message - From: Lu

Re: [gmx-users] Reduced LJ Units

2010-06-08 Thread Sai Pooja
Thanks Mark. I looked at the link you has sent. However, with pressure coupling I haven't seen such fluctuations for my system. The pressure value is the one obtained at the end of a long NPT simulation - 10^8 steps with dt=10^-4. The rms fluctuations in pressure are small, of the order of 1-0.1 b

Re: [gmx-users] PBC

2010-06-08 Thread Sai Kumar Ramadugu
Hi Morteza, I had this problem when I was running a trimeric protein attached to an oligosaccharide. *I have used the following command:* * * *trjconv -s .tpr -f .xtc -o -boxcenter tric -pbc mol* * * *but it is not working.* Do the following. It worked for me. In the first round, run

[gmx-users] building long polymer chain

2010-06-08 Thread Moeed
Hello Justin, I am trying to generate the top file for polyethylene chain using the information from the archive: http://lists.gromacs.org/pipermail/gmx-users/2009-March/040125.html. In the former post you said parameters in the I am referring to are not necessarily correct. 1- By parameters you

[gmx-users] PMF in vacuum and pull direction

2010-06-08 Thread chris . neale
Dear Eudes: Thanks for working with me on this one! What you are getting is actually what you are asking for in your .mdp file. You restrain the Z-projection of the displacement, but do not affect the X and Y components of the displacement with pull_dim = N N Y. If you want to pull with s

Re: [gmx-users] building long polymer chain

2010-06-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Moeed wrote: Hello Justin, I am trying to generate the top file for polyethylene chain using the information from the archive: http://lists.gromacs.org/pipermail/gmx-users/2009-March/040125.html. In the former post you said parameters in the I am referring to are not necessarily correct.

[gmx-users] Position restrained Dynamics

2010-06-08 Thread nikhil damle
Hi All, I am trying to simulate kinase domain (chain A) in complex with cyclin (chain B). During solvent dynamics, PBC on and PME treatment of electrostatics, i need to keep only kinase domain flexible but cyclin fixed. i put POSRES_B in define variable and tried to simulated the entire solvate

Re[4]: [gmx-users] Non-conservation of total energy while using structure file to resume the simulation

2010-06-08 Thread Dmitri Dubov
First, sorry for the revival of this thread so late (maybe it should be better to start a new one). > - Original Message - > From: Dmitri Dubov > Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010 19:11 > Subject: Re[2]: [gmx-users] Non-conservation of total energy while > using structure file to resume the s