Re: [gmx-users] Leaflet of Bilayer

2008-09-22 Thread Alan Dodd
(Yes, what Chris Neale said).  I had to do something similar myself, to make a 256-lipid square box from a 128 lipid box.  I used genbox to make a new, larger square box using my original lipid patch as the input file, and then tinkered with the dimensions to get the lipids/leaflet as close to w

Re: [gmx-users] increasing membrane bilayer size

2008-10-04 Thread Alan Dodd
Please search the message archives for the thread entitled "Leaflet of Bilayer" that discussed this precise task just a couple of weeks ago. - Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "gmx-users@gromacs.org" Sent: Saturday, October 4, 2008 11:00:22 PM Subject

Re: [gmx-users] simulation of mixed enantiomers

2008-10-10 Thread Alan Dodd
The topologies should not be identical, surely?  Check out the section on improper dihedrals in the manual, it's possible to specify an improper to keep enantiomers in their intended handedness. - Original Message From: Anthony Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent

[gmx-users] g_order post - 3.3.1 (yes, again).

2008-11-29 Thread Alan Dodd
Hello all, I've been having a nightmare of a time trying to get order parameters for my lipids.  All pre-3.3 files I have can be processed quite happily with a version of g_order from 3.2.1, but I can't seem to get 4.0 (or 3.3.1) to produce the basic order.xvg.  I've tried specifying all carbons

Re: [gmx-users] problem in bilayer simulation

2007-12-30 Thread Alan Dodd
Does the water move through the bilayer, or is this a PBC thing? It sounds like your bilayer is translating upwards? - Original Message From: pragya chohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 3:25:51 PM Subject: [gmx-users] problem in bilayer s

Re: [gmx-users] problem in pr.mdp file

2007-12-31 Thread Alan Dodd
What's the difference between the two runs? Isolate which of the differences makes your simulation run slow, and then the answer might present itself. - Original Message From: sudheer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 12:20:48 PM Subject: [gm

Re: [gmx-users] problem in bilayer simulation

2007-12-31 Thread Alan Dodd
I'm going to assume you've read http://wiki.gromacs.org/index.php/Doing_Restarts. I suggest you also look more closely at the manual page for trjconv. - Original Message From: pragya chohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 1:56:41

Re: [gmx-users] g_density

2008-01-08 Thread Alan Dodd
Atoms. - Original Message From: Antonia Vyrkou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 4:05:26 PM Subject: [gmx-users] g_density Dear all, When using the g_density tool am I calculating the density of a group of molecules in respect to the atoms

Re: [gmx-users] image control

2008-01-15 Thread Alan Dodd
I'd suggest this is an issue with VMD rather than gromacs. You have to be quite careful which .gro you use to provide the original structure, make sure it is actually the starting frame and not anything else - this is something I've seen cause this sort of problem before. Normally, of course, P

Re: [gmx-users] image control

2008-01-15 Thread Alan Dodd
ly typing box size at the bottom of .gro file) On Jan 15, 2008 10:13 AM, Alan Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd suggest this is an issue with VMD rather than gromacs. You have to be quite careful which .gro you use to provide the original structure, make sure it is actuall

Re: [gmx-users] About g_msd

2008-01-15 Thread Alan Dodd
What happens if you visualise the trajectory? Two orders of magnitude in scale of lipid movement should stick out like a sore thumb. - Original Message From: Justin A. Lemkul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:27:45 AM Subject: [gmx-users]

Re: [gmx-users] About g_msd (and noise)

2008-01-16 Thread Alan Dodd
nd do normal g_msd for the P atoms only. (no mol flags etc.) > > Thanks again. > > -Justin > > > Quoting Alan Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> What happens if you visualise the trajectory? Two orders of magnitude in >> scale of lipid movement sh

Re: [gmx-users] Specified frame doesn't exist or file not seekable

2008-01-21 Thread Alan Dodd
Check the bugzilla server, is it the same problem as #126? - Original Message From: Arnau Cordomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 2:12:17 PM Subject: [gmx-users] Specified frame doesn't exist or file not seekable Dear all, I'm getting the fo

Re: [gmx-users] Checkpointing GROMACS jobs

2008-01-28 Thread Alan Dodd
If the runs all finish successfully, then incorporating run continuations into your script is simple, but I believe the issue may be more the tendency of tpbconv to fail unpredictably - should the .edr file be even one frame shorter than the .trr file due to a crash, for instance, then tpbconv w

[gmx-users] Temperature without trr

2008-01-29 Thread Alan Dodd
Gromacs users, I want to look at the temperature difference between groups, to check whether temperature coupling is working ok (specifically if the lipid is at the same temperature as the water). Unfortunately, I've rather foolishly deleted all my trrs due to a lack of space, thinking xtc/edr w

Re: [gmx-users] Temperature without trr

2008-01-30 Thread Alan Dodd
see what I mean? i.e. that the error due to not accounting for constraints is constant. Alan. - Original Message From: David van der Spoel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:45:01 PM Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Temperature without

Re: [gmx-users] analysis of POPC

2008-02-02 Thread Alan Dodd
You'd have thought the MD papers you have would also compare values against experimental data? These papers do exist, I'm sure, I came across the all the time while looking for DOPC data - though I didn't make a note of them. Plus the people who initially parameterised the POPC topology (Tielem

[gmx-users] g_dist producing inconsistent values

2008-02-06 Thread Alan Dodd
I've been using g_dist to plot distances along the normal to my bilayer between groups. Namely in this case, between the phosphates of opposing leaflets, and the peptide. I would expect the sum of the distances between the peptide and each leaflet's phosphates to equal the distance between the

Re: [gmx-users] g_dist producing inconsistent values

2008-02-07 Thread Alan Dodd
I've since found the source of my problem - the program was measuring the (marginally shorter) distance across the PBC boundary, rather than the distance within the box. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to turn PBC images off (correct me if I'm wrong?), so I guess I'm going to do so

Re: [gmx-users] g_dist producing inconsistent values

2008-02-07 Thread Alan Dodd
- Original Message From: David van der Spoel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2008 6:35:55 PM Subject: Re: [gmx-users] g_dist producing inconsistent values [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I've since found the source of my problem - the pro

Re: [gmx-users] How to ask pdb2gmx to print all parameters in the itp file

2008-02-15 Thread Alan Dodd
If you convert the tpr binary into a text file, it should have every parameter in it I think? - Original Message From: LeeHui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 4:57:13 PM Subject: [gmx-users] How to ask pdb2gmx to print all parameters in the it

Re: [gmx-users] Relating acceleration to pressure

2008-03-04 Thread Alan Dodd
f=ma? - Original Message From: avinash kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 7:08:04 PM Subject: [gmx-users] Relating acceleration to pressure Hello all, This is more of a theoretical question than relating to the software. My ques

Re: [gmx-users] trjconv output at a specified time

2008-03-12 Thread Alan Dodd
You asked for the frame at 1ps. The trajectory starts at 125ps, so unsurprisingly the program does not give you an output. - Original Message From: Liu Shiyong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:07:17 PM Subject: [gmx-users] tr

Re: [gmx-users] trjconv output at a specified time

2008-03-12 Thread Alan Dodd
== 250 ps step 3 == 375 ps Where is 125ps from ? But ; RUN CONTROL PARAMETERS integrator = steep ; Start time and timestep in ps tinit= 0 dt = 0.002 On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Alan Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [gmx-users] How to change the default value for pbc ?

2008-03-13 Thread Alan Dodd
Editing mdout.mdp will not affect the parameters in your .tpr, and therefore your simulation, I'm fairly sure. It's just a report of what you've specified, with all the defaults. Add the pbc=whatever line into your INPUT mdp to fix this. - Original Message From: Liu Shiyong <[EMAIL PR

Re: [gmx-users] tutorial for membrane-bound systems

2008-03-20 Thread Alan Dodd
Firstly, a molecule of DPPC has less than 300 atoms. Secondly, I'd suggest you look for stuff by Tieleman, White, or Sansom. Googling/literature searching any of these names with "membrane" should give you some rough pointers on how it's been done in the past. There is no official membrane tutor

Re: [gmx-users] tutorial for membrane-bound systems

2008-03-20 Thread Alan Dodd
enzyme tutorial for Gromacs. But for membrane-bound case I guess this tutorial is not enough to work. Best Wishes, Serdar Alan Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: Firstly, a molecule of DPPC has less than 300 atoms. Secondly, I'd suggest you look for stuff by Tieleman, White, or S

Re: [gmx-users] Gromacs slow for 23000 atom DPPC bilayer on a (1 x 4) node: 50 ps in 10 hours

2008-03-24 Thread Alan Dodd
The end of the log files after the simulation finishes might help you understand if there's anything odd that's taking more computation than normal. Also, just one extra running process can slow down the entire simulation as all processors will wait for the slowest. Check if it takes as long if

Re: [gmx-users] problem with bilayer PBC. after dynamics, bilayer becomes 2 monolayers (shift in box center?)

2008-03-31 Thread Alan Dodd
It sounds like you have it pretty clear already. A point to note, in GROMACS the origin coordinate 0,0,0 is at a corner of the box, not the centre. This could be what caused such a big (apparent) shift. - Original Message From: maria goranovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list

Re: [gmx-users] How to center my trimer in my simulation box.

2008-04-22 Thread Alan Dodd
I've often found it necessary to do multiple trjconv steps to get the result I want. So in this case, I'd probably make sure my protein is genuinely centered in the box, then take that output .xtc and then make sure everything is whole and approximately in the box (-pbc whole). - Original

Re: [gmx-users] problem with g_order

2008-04-30 Thread Alan Dodd
I suggest you search the archives too.  This has been discussed several times. - Original Message From: pragya chohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:52:19 AM Subject: [gmx-users] problem with g_order Dear users   I am calculating order p

Re: [gmx-users] Unable to neutralize my system

2008-05-08 Thread Alan Dodd
You haven't edited your topology files correctly.  If changing the number of ions has not resulting in a change of charge, I'd suggest you haven't added the ions in right; otherwise, I suspect it's something to do with the number of waters.  Particularly as the error in coordinates vs. topology

Re: [gmx-users] cutting the trajectory in small subtrajectories

2008-05-13 Thread Alan Dodd
Yes, that's exactly what the first reply was telling you.  The option is "stride", I believe. - Original Message From: serdar durdagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:44:37 AM Subject: Re: [gmx-users] cutting the trajectory in smal

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Re: water distortion above bilayer

2008-05-19 Thread Alan Dodd
How about you try the different options, see what they do, and then decide for yourself how best to utilise them for whatever it is that you wish to do? - Original Message From: ANINDITA GAYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 2:28:30 PM Subject:

Re: [gmx-users] how to edit pdb file

2008-05-21 Thread Alan Dodd
Copy file, editconf to translate, then concatenate that with the original, reorder and renumber everything; or genbox will also do something similar with less tinkering. - Original Message From: "Wei, Xiupeng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "gmx-users@gromacs.org" Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 200

Re: [gmx-users] Order parameters of lipid

2008-08-01 Thread Alan Dodd
Yes, I never managed to get a later version of g_order to function properly.  I only ever get the -Sg and -Sk outputs, no matter WHAT I put in the index files.  I've just kept an old version of gromacs on the machine I use for analysis.  A copy of 3.2.1 should be quite easy to download, and will

Re: [gmx-users] Corrupt TRR file -- skipping a bad frame?

2008-08-28 Thread Alan Dodd
I'm sure I have, in the past, found a way to use trjcat/trjconv to overwrite a bad frame with a good one.  From memory, I had to convert the area around the bad frame to pdb/gro (for some reason that worked where normal tools didn't), open up the files, rewrite several bad frames (just copied an

[gmx-users] make_ndx "one of your groups is not ascending"

2008-09-10 Thread Alan Dodd
I'm having trouble with using make_ndx with a specific file.  Whenever I try to combine or use a specific group (group content at bottom) I get the error "One of your groups is not ascending", and the group is not actually included in the subsequent group produced.  As far as I can see, the numb

Re: [gmx-users] ED analysis: help on cosine content and overlap of the fluctuations

2007-04-13 Thread Alan Dodd
Short answer? RMSD is a lousy measure of convergence :) - Original Message From: Caterina Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 10:58:54 AM Subject: [gmx-users] ED analysis: help on cosine content and overlap o

Re: [gmx-users] Trjconv: reducing frames and Time issue

2007-05-08 Thread Alan Dodd
Don't use -timestep. Just -skip will do for what you want. - Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2007 7:20:39 PM Subject: [gmx-users] Trjconv: reducing frames and Time issue Hello All, I have a xtc file and I u

Re: [gmx-users] calculation of distance , angle ,dihedral

2007-05-28 Thread Alan Dodd
Read the manual. There's a section on available analysis programs towards the back, all of which start with g_ If I were you, I'd narrow my search to something along the lines of: g_dist, g_angle, and g_dihedral. That might be uncannily helpful. - Original Message From: Mark Abraham <

Re: [gmx-users] Regarding membrane protein solvation

2007-06-01 Thread Alan Dodd
Check the manual for 'genbox'. Once you work out how to use it, remember to check your output for waters within the bilayer - I'm not sure how big the cavities are, but I wouldn't be surprised if you could fit a water molecule or two in. - Original Message From: naga raju <[EMAIL PROT

[gmx-users] tpbconv restart crashing on 3.3.1

2007-06-05 Thread Alan Dodd
like a bug. Any suggestions as to why LINCS errors could suddenly now prevent the simulation from running *any* of the steps that it previously ran just fine? I just want a hint as to what we could have missed, really. Alan Dod

Re: [gmx-users] Coordinate file does not match topology

2007-06-07 Thread Alan Dodd
Small errors like that are usually down to things like running genion and not changing the .top. I think I made a problem for myself once with non-consecutive atom numbering, too. - Original Message From: Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Sent: Fri

Re: [gmx-users] tpbconv restart crashing on 3.3.1

2007-06-11 Thread Alan Dodd
rs Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 4:15:29 PM Subject: Re: [gmx-users] tpbconv restart crashing on 3.3.1 Alan Dodd wrote: > Hello all, > A recent simulation has been running on a cluster for a couple of weeks. > 5.something-ns in it crashed due to a hardware glitch. All perfectly &g

Re: [gmx-users] g_bundle!

2007-06-21 Thread Alan Dodd
I've used g_bundle a lot for just this sort of thing. You need to define the top and bottom of the helix as seperate groups, and define them *very* carefully - it does make a difference how you do it, presumably because g_bundle just plots the axis between the COM of both groups? I usually def

Re: [gmx-users] obtaining information from trj file

2007-06-21 Thread Alan Dodd
Check out the file template.c, in gromacs/share/template. I'm being rather rude, and assuming you haven't read the FAQ, of course. - Original Message From: Mark Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 2:16:05 PM Subject: Re: [gmx-

Re: [gmx-users] How to simulate peptide capped with ACE?

2007-07-11 Thread Alan Dodd
For some reason this didn't send to the mailing list... I use C-terminal amidated peptides, which sounds similar to what you're trying to achieve. Still, more info about what you've done would have made this reply rather shorter. Is the residue still there after pdb2gmx, for instance? I've n

Re: [gmx-users] which tool to use a measure a user-defined angle in a traj

2007-07-17 Thread Alan Dodd
Fair enough, but I'll just repeat that g_bundle does *exactly* what you want in your example - provide it with an index file with two groups with the COMs defining the ends of the axes (in your case, one C in one group and one O in the other) and the option -z, and it'll dump out a file of the a

Re: [gmx-users] restarting a run using tpbconv

2007-07-22 Thread Alan Dodd
I noticed the time provided was: tpbconv -s protein.tpr -f protein.trr -o protein2.tpr -time -1300 I'd have thought Gromacs would have provided an error if this were the case, but it may be that it's taken the frame closest to the (negative) time requested, and consequently just removing the minu

Re: [gmx-users] problem regarding total time elapsed

2007-07-25 Thread Alan Dodd
tpbconv -extend ??? - Original Message From: gurpreet singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 6:21:06 PM Subject: [gmx-users] problem regarding total time elapsed Hello users I am using gromacs 3.3 with 43a1 force field. My ques

Re: [gmx-users] Storage of large output files

2007-08-09 Thread Alan Dodd
I've always used HDDs for the main backup/working copies, and DVDs for longer-term backup. You can get hold of 100x spindles of DVDs quite cheaply these days... I wouldn't call it convenient, though. - Original Message From: Monika Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for GR

Re: [gmx-users] energy minimization using double precision gromacs failed

2007-08-13 Thread Alan Dodd
There's probably a problem either with your structure or your topology. Spend some time looking at what you've done. I'd start by investigating atom 483. It should be pretty obvious what's wrong, with a force like that. - Original Message From: Q733 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@

Re: [gmx-users] The energy minimization....

2007-08-17 Thread Alan Dodd
The end structure is the same as the start because gromacs cannot find a lower energy structure than the initial one. This indicates something severely wrong, either with the topology or starting structure. You could get a better idea of what's going on by telling gromacs to output structures

Re: [gmx-users] Unusual structures generated by GENCONF command and resultant minimization problem

2007-08-24 Thread Alan Dodd
Capping peptides is non-trivial, so the error may have been introduced there - certainly the approach you stated is not what I or others have used successfully. There have been a number of posts discussing how to do this, check the archives. - Original Message From: OZGE ENGIN <[EMAIL

[gmx-users] make_ndx and residue name length

2007-09-04 Thread Alan Dodd
The maximum permissible residue name length is at least 5 characters long for a tpr or gro, but the length of residue name permitted by make_ndx is only 4 characters. And of course, pdb should have only 3 characters. While I can change the names in a gro or a pdb quite quickly and easily, is t

Re: [gmx-users] make_ndx and residue name length

2007-09-05 Thread Alan Dodd
Subject: RE: [gmx-users] make_ndx and residue name length >From: Alan Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Discussion list for GROMACS users >To: gmx-users@gromacs.org >Subject: [gmx-users] make_ndx and residue name length >Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:55:07 -0700 (PDT) > &g

Re: [gmx-users] ffgmx_lipids.tar.gz

2007-09-17 Thread Alan Dodd
http://moose.bio.ucalgary.ca/index.php?page=Structures_and_Topologies should have roughly what you want. Failing that, google is your friend. - Original Message From: Rina Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 1:12:05 PM Subject: [gmx-users

Re: [gmx-users] Pbc and Com in simulation video

2007-09-25 Thread Alan Dodd
Yes, I know what you mean - I keep meaning to make a modified trjconv where '-fit trans' only affects the xy coordinates, for my bilayers, but it never quite seems important enough. If your droplet moves at a constant rate, trjconv -shift will, I think, move the coordinates by an amount proport

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Pbc and Com in simulation video

2007-09-26 Thread Alan Dodd
I believe I got as far as determining that the frame coordinates were stored in the rvec fr.x after being read, and passed to do_fit. That rvec structure would be the key to achieving what you want, I guess. When I got to about that point, I decided I could handle a little bobbing about when w

Re: [gmx-users] only one cpu "works" in my linux cluster

2007-10-08 Thread Alan Dodd
Check the MPICH manuals for how to specify the nodes to run on. From memory, the option -machinefile lets you do this. - Original Message From: liu xin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Sent: Monday, October 8, 2007 1:51:12 PM Subject: [gmx-users] only one cpu

Re: [gmx-users] only one cpu "works" in my linux cluster

2007-10-09 Thread Alan Dodd
am a little busy today, sorry for replying so late... On 10/8/07, Alan Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Check the MPICH manuals for how to specify the nodes to run on. From memory, the option -machinefile lets you do this. - Original Message From: liu xin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [gmx-users] anisotropic pressure coupling for temperature annealing

2007-10-10 Thread Alan Dodd
Have you simulated the system without the annealing, to see if it does the same thing? Bilayers are very sensitive to minor changes in setup, using someone else's equilibrated bilayer coordinates doesn't mean it's equilibrated for your system. - Original Message From: Q733 <[EMAIL PR

Re: [gmx-users] How to change the box size during simuation

2007-10-10 Thread Alan Dodd
You can apply external forces to subsets of atoms, in such a way as to cause your box to shrink by itself. - Original Message From: WU Yanbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2007 11:40:21 PM Subject: [gmx-users] How to change the box size during s

Re: [gmx-users] forcefield validation

2007-10-16 Thread Alan Dodd
Use the topologies/forcefields in a simulation/energy minimisation, and check that any predictions made by the simulation match up with any available experimental evidence. Hopefully, you'll see that predictions are confirmed by existing experiments, and will suggest new experiments to be done.

Re: [gmx-users] angle between helices

2007-10-29 Thread Alan Dodd
g_bundle does give the angle between helix pairs...? Not directly, admittedly, but it gives you the tilt from the main axes, which you can use with some basic math to work out the angle between helices. - Original Message From: Anupam Nath Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list fo

Re: [gmx-users] Regarding Box-X Box-Y values from g_energy

2007-11-01 Thread Alan Dodd
Did you perhaps use semiisotropic pressure coupling? I'd expect the X-Y values to be the same for that. - Original Message From: Sona Aramyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2007 1:18:07 PM Subject: [gmx-users] Regarding Box-X Box-Y

Re: [gmx-users] problem with waters in protein/membrane simulation

2007-11-06 Thread Alan Dodd
You can play with mdrun_hole (search the site) which is designed to create a protein-shaped hole in a lipid simulation (also making a hole in the water). I'd probably just delete the offending waters, and reequilibrate, myself. - Original Message From: N-J.M. Macaluso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gmx-users] combining gromos96 (43a2) and berger lipid force field

2007-11-07 Thread Alan Dodd
The quick answer would be to look at the ffgmx forcefield, and the ffgmx/Berger hybrid that can be obtained (either from Tieleman or the Gromacs website, I forget) and work out how the former was incorporated into the latter. Then replicate that for ffG43a2. Not necessarily simple or even valid

Re: Re: [gmx-users] trjconv does not work

2007-11-19 Thread Alan Dodd
The length of your simulation is irrelevant, the frequency of frame output is. If you don't output frames at least 5x per picosecond, asking for the frames in a 0.1ps gap is not going to produce an output - because there probably won't be any. Check your mdp. - Original Message From:

Re: [gmx-users] area by lipid

2007-11-24 Thread Alan Dodd
I didn't think g_energy was useful for that - I've always used g_traj -ob to get box dimensions. If noone has a better answer, you should probably just try that and see if you get the same effect. - Original Message From: maite lopez cabezas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for

Re: [gmx-users] area by lipid

2007-11-24 Thread Alan Dodd
0 0 0 14 6.3696 6.3998 6.54126 0 0 0 15 6.3696 6.3998 6.53768 0 0 0 On Nov 24, 2007 6:00 PM, Alan Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't think g_energy was useful for that - I've always used g_traj -o

Re: [gmx-users] area by lipid

2007-11-25 Thread Alan Dodd
- Original Message From: maite lopez cabezas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 10:48:31 AM Subject: Re: [gmx-users] area by lipid Well I know that the x/y directions are scaled isotropically and the z direction is scaled independien

Re: [gmx-users] Recover velocity from trr file and coordinates from xtc file

2007-11-29 Thread Alan Dodd
http://wiki.gromacs.org/index.php/Doing_Restarts You can make a gro with what you have. You *may* be able to continue your run properly. Read the above link. - Original Message From: Myunggi Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 4:06:06 PM

Re: [gmx-users] Recover velocity from trr file and coordinates from xtc file

2007-11-30 Thread Alan Dodd
(only coordinates). I have edr file also. I found the following to make the restart file (gro file). tpbconv -s eq5.tpr -f eq5.trr -e eq5.edr -o eq6.tpr -time 6870.000 Since I have velocity only in the trr file, I can't apply this. Any idea? On Nov 29, 2007 11:17 AM, Ala

Re: [gmx-users] Gel Phase in DMPC using Berger force field ??

2007-12-13 Thread Alan Dodd
What topology are you using? If you're using one based on the Kartunnen's group POPG (the only publicly available one I know of), then be aware that I think they saw gel phase too. Oh, and read the email you replied to, particularly the bit about 18 angstroms. - Original Message From:

Re: [gmx-users] membranes & proteins revisited

2007-12-19 Thread Alan Dodd
Of course it's unnatural, it's a membrane made of gas instead of lipid ;) I'd recommend that you equilibrate the "membrane" first, and check it actually behaves in a manner close enough to one for what you want - and then insert a protein into it. You might want to look into the make_hole suit

Re: [gmx-users] image centering

2007-12-26 Thread Alan Dodd
Have you tried running trjconv with -centre (selecting SOL, obviously), and then running trjconv -pbc on the result? I have a vague memory of finding seperating the commands gives a different result, as if the two options were interfering with each other. What does the output look like when yo

Re: [gmx-users] 2 beginner�s questions

2006-05-15 Thread Alan Dodd
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Gromacs community. > > I am just starting my first dynamics and wonder if > you could help me with: > > 1. Want to use some graphical program to see the > atoms moving. Can I use > ngmx? What other programs are available? Yes, ngmx will work just fine, alb

Re: [gmx-users] g_dist

2006-05-22 Thread Alan Dodd
That'd certainly work if the movement is continuous, but if there are many fluctuations near the crossover point then sorting out which steps to fudge it at could be a pain. Assuming you only care about the Z seperation, I'd be tempted to use g_traj to plot both groups, and subtract the z-position

Re: [gmx-users] Lipid Order Parameters - Calculating & Plotting

2006-05-29 Thread Alan Dodd
Check previous questions to the mailing list: http://www.gromacs.org/pipermail/gmx-users/2002-January/000527.html http://www.gromacs.org/pipermail/gmx-users/2004-February/009182.html --- Arneh Babakhani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello GROMACS community, > > I was wondering if somebody cou

Re: [gmx-users] index file for g_order

2006-06-05 Thread Alan Dodd
The first and last carbons are not calculated. GROMACS needs to use a C-C bond on either side of each carbon to place the hydrogens, and hence calculate the order parameter. --- Arneh Babakhani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Now with the g_order bug fixed (see bugzilla #84) , > I'm try

Re: [gmx-users] index file for g_order

2006-06-05 Thread Alan Dodd
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alan, great, thanks, I suspected something like > that. > > Then, is there a way to calculate the Scd order > parameters for these > carbons, given that there are no explicit > hydrogens??? > > Arneh > > Alan Dodd wrote: > >

Re: [gmx-users] special molecule

2006-06-12 Thread Alan Dodd
It's entirely possible to mix and match forcefield files to create a hybrid forcefield - the lipid forcefield I use has OPLS parameters for the headgroups, custom parameters for lipid tails, and GMX parameters for everything else. As long as the hybrid forcefield is internally consistent, it will

Re: [gmx-users] Is 2D projection

2006-07-07 Thread Alan Dodd
If you are referring to the output of g_anaeig, then the answer is yes. It's rarely conclusive, of course, but it give you a good idea of how your simulation is sampling space. A good plot would show lots of variation, whereas a bad plot would show a general drift. Alan. --- Wei Fu <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [gmx-users] MPI gromacs usage

2006-07-18 Thread Alan Dodd
The information must be out there, somewhere, because I found it... But in summary: You'll need to compile gromacs with MPI support. See the installation instructions for details about that. Once you've got MPI-enabled gromacs, you need to run grompp with the option -np (number of nodes to run ov

Re: [gmx-users] Stepsize too small, or no change in energy

2006-07-18 Thread Alan Dodd
I find getting a system minimised is often quite tricky. There's a variety of things that can be fiddled with, using cg with various intervals between steps of steepest descent, running a few steps of md (say, 10 to 100) after minimisation and then minimising again, randomly perturbing the coordin

Re: [gmx-users] Disulphide bonds

2006-07-31 Thread Alan Dodd
I use the option -merge with my SS-linked peptides, and pdb2gmx always asks me if I want to join my cysteines with a bond. If they're internal to the protein, perhaps it's either that they're too far apart, or you need -ignh as otherwise they've got hydrogens on and potentially can't bond. --- Ce

[gmx-users] position restraints crashing

2006-08-10 Thread Alan Dodd
Hello, I'm trying to run position restraints on multiple peptides in a protein/bilayer/water system. MD *without* position restraints runs absolutely fine, but as soon as I stick that "define = -DPOSRES" in, some of the molecules explode within a matter of fs. Any idea why this might be? Is MD w

Re: [gmx-users] position restraints crashing

2006-08-10 Thread Alan Dodd
e system. > Sounds more like your > system is still not well minimized. Using the > freezegroup option is not > such a good way, because it will not work well > together with the > pressure coupling. Did you use the restraints during > minimization as well? > Bye > St

Re: [gmx-users] position restraints crashing

2006-08-10 Thread Alan Dodd
my carefully-placed peptide. Interestingly, I've had similar problems before, but only when I use multiple peptides. Might try merging the chains and see what that does. I used CG with steep every 50 steps... sounds weird I know, but it's proved pretty reliable. --- Steffen Wolf <[EMAI

Re: [gmx-users] position restraints crashing

2006-08-10 Thread Alan Dodd
Interestingly, merging the peptide chains to one results in PR working fine. Smells like a bug to me... but I guess that's the price of using an old version. --- Steffen Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, so it looks that minimization ended at a > metastable point, which > was surmounted by

Re: [gmx-users] make_hole vs. genconf

2006-09-19 Thread Alan Dodd
> > > I'm also aware of the make_hole tool. My question > here is: Does > > make_hole create a hole of specified dimensions > and orientation, > > according to the solute coordinates? And can you > specify exactly > > where in the membrane you want the whole? > > Make_hole doesn't actua

Re: [gmx-users] Lipid Bilayer Simulations

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Dodd
Configuring the .itp files etc initially is a bit tricksy without knowing what you're doing, the short not-very-helpful answer is "read the manual". There's a whole chapter (5?) on forcefield files and their formats. It's entirely possible to set it all up so that pdb2gmx does in fact work, but to

[gmx-users] charged lipids

2006-10-13 Thread Alan Dodd
x27;m not intending to do a pure bilayer, just dope the existing one with a few negative charges. And a high concentration of ions near the membrane is not entirely unrealistic, I believe. So does anyone know of any gromacs stuff using negative lipids, or alternatively a reason why this hasn'

[gmx-users] Creation of an index file with seperate lipid leaflets

2006-11-08 Thread Alan Dodd
them - they do the opposite of what they say. From the gromacs 3.3.1 source download I did on April of this year. Alan Dodd University of Bristol __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam prote

Re: [gmx-users] Creation of an index file with seperate lipid leaflets

2006-11-08 Thread Alan Dodd
Wouldn't shuffle/sort undo all the good work? I did wonder if I should have labelled the lipids in different leaflets as different molecule types, or different chains, but it's a bit late now... --- Jay Mashl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Alan Dodd wr

Re: [gmx-users] Creation of an index file with seperate lipid leaflets

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Dodd
tem by looping over lipids > and ask whether that atom type > > has a z-coordinate within some amount around the > input value. From this you > > know the membership of the leaflets. A more > automatic way would be to have the > > program first discern the distribution and t

[gmx-users] GROMACS exit codes; error in LAM installation?

2006-12-07 Thread Alan Dodd
Hello, (background) I recently compiled a new version of the 3.2.1 mdrun to make use of the lam 7.1.2 that's just been installed. For some reason, I can't get a run to work with it - it goes fine until: Back Off! I just backed up enerG.edr to ./#enerG.edr.1# starting mdrun '?' 143 steps,

Re: [gmx-users] how to calculate the area of per lipid in membrane

2006-12-20 Thread Alan Dodd
I don't know of anything publicly available, but have a look around for voronoi cell analysis. People have used it before for lipid area calculation, and may be willing to let you use their code. Alternatively, read up on the theory and try it yourself. - Original Message From: linfu

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