Re: [gmx-users] pdb2gmx and periodic molecule

2015-04-26 Thread Alex
Well, none of us in this project have the scripting skills necessary for this, that's sort of the problem... Thanks, Alex Hi Alex, I think the best way is to extend the chain, such that you get an overlap between both ends. So for a stretch of DNA ACGT You would generate TACGTA Then

[gmx-users] on the MDP options

2015-04-26 Thread Brett
Dear All, In the on-line lysozyme tutorial, it gives a series of mdp files. But it meantioned for different force fields the options should be different. Will you please tell me regardless of force fields, whether all the cutoff-scheme can be Verlet? Besides I can change the rcoulomb and

Re: [gmx-users] how to name HIS in the input pdb for the pdb2gmx

2015-04-26 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, Files in fixed-column formats use the column widths to separate elements. They don't use white space at the same time, for the same job! Try it and see ;-) Mark On 26/04/2015 6:29 am, Brett brettliu...@163.com wrote: Dear All, If we change HIS188 in Chain B to HISE188 in Chain B, before

Re: [gmx-users] pdb2gmx and periodic molecule

2015-04-26 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Alex, I think the best way is to extend the chain, such that you get an overlap between both ends. So for a stretch of DNA ACGT You would generate TACGTA Then you strip off the terminal atoms and rewire the links over the boundary. It requires renumbering the topology and at first looks a

Re: [gmx-users] Molecule specific explosion

2015-04-26 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, Look at the whole molecule topology. Don't ignore any warnings. Mark On 26/04/2015 9:38 am, Eric Smoll ericsm...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Gromacs Users, I have constructed a multi-component solution and, during energy minimization, one molecule type is radically deforming under ~ 0.2 ps.

[gmx-users] Molecule specific explosion

2015-04-26 Thread Eric Smoll
Hello Gromacs Users, I have constructed a multi-component solution and, during energy minimization, one molecule type is radically deforming under ~ 0.2 ps. All molecules of this type explode simultaneously. Looking over the topology, all the atoms in this molecules appear to have correct

[gmx-users] on the xmgrac for gromacs

2015-04-26 Thread Brett
Dear All, For the grpmacs analysis purpose, from the official GRACE site I have downloaded and installed different versions of GRACE, some was said to definitely contains xmgrace. But after installation, none contains xmgrace, they contain grace or gr in the bin folder. After I invoke the

Re: [gmx-users] on the xmgrac for gromacs

2015-04-26 Thread Brett
The issue is, no mater grace or xmggrace I download, I cannot have the xmgrace exe file in the corresponding bin folder produced. Thus will you tell me which version of grace has the xmgrace after unpack and installation? Brett At 2015-04-26 23:09:23, abhijit Kayal

Re: [gmx-users] free energy

2015-04-26 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/26/15 8:54 AM, fatemeh ramezani wrote: Dear gmx-usersI want to calculate free energy of binding of ligand to Au surface in 8 ns simulation. I considered 7 lambda (lambda= 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 0.9, 1) and for every lambda a mdp file. for example lambda-0 mdp file: title =

Re: [gmx-users] Using thermostats to create temperature gradient in system

2015-04-26 Thread Suzen, Mehmet
Hi Agnivo, Temperature gradient means non-equilibrium MD (NEMD) See notes from Prof. Martini: https://nanohub.org/resources/7582/download/Martini_L10_NonequilibruimMD.pdf What observable would you like to measure? Lets say you want to measure observable A. One procedure I can think of: 1.

Re: [gmx-users] a question related to gmx energy minimization

2015-04-26 Thread Brett
Dear Tsjerk, Will you please explain to me why the RMSD in this step is so large? For this reason I think there is something wrong. I am looking forward to getting a reply from you. Brett At 2015-04-26 20:59:59, Tsjerk Wassenaar tsje...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brett, Too high for what?

Re: [gmx-users] on the xmgrac for gromacs

2015-04-26 Thread abhijit Kayal
the command is xmgrace, try with xmgrace -nxy. On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Brett brettliu...@163.com wrote: Dear All, For the grpmacs analysis purpose, from the official GRACE site I have downloaded and installed different versions of GRACE, some was said to definitely contains

Re: [gmx-users] a question related to gmx energy minimization

2015-04-26 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/26/15 9:53 AM, Brett wrote: Dear Tsjerk, Will you please explain to me why the RMSD in this step is so large? For this reason I think there is something wrong. No, there's nothing wrong; the analysis in this case is meaningless. Energy minimization inherently makes large (orders of

Re: [gmx-users] a question related to gmx energy minimization

2015-04-26 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Brett, Too high for what? You do EM because you just built (part of) your system, and in doing so introduced clashes and non-ideal geometries. These lead to high potential energy, so you relax them with EM. What you see is how much the system relaxed. Noone usually cares how much potential

[gmx-users] a question related to gmx energy minimization

2015-04-26 Thread Brett
Dear All, I just run the command gmx energy -f em.edr -o potential.xvg for my energy minimization step MD, but I find the RMSD given by this command is 142611, which I regard to be too high. Will you please explain to me what leads to the so high RMSD (Err.Est is 53000, Tot-Drift is -341107

[gmx-users] free energy

2015-04-26 Thread fatemeh ramezani
Dear gmx-usersI want to calculate free energy of binding of ligand to Au surface in 8 ns simulation. I considered 7 lambda (lambda= 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 0.9, 1) and for every lambda a mdp file. for example lambda-0 mdp file: title   =  n.pdb restraining cpp = 

Re: [gmx-users] Using thermostats to create temperature gradient in system

2015-04-26 Thread Suzen, Mehmet
Hi Agnivo; Yes, the idea of freezing the solvent or the protein in many times is to sample the non-equilibrium thermal process. It will remain in the target temperature on average, over many fixed configurations obtained by different NVT runs (equilibrium runs). But you may need to run this many

Re: [gmx-users] Using thermostats to create temperature gradient in system

2015-04-26 Thread Agnivo Gosai
Hello Users, This is in relation to my previous posts. I am looking to replicate the figure below : ​ tempgradient.png https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-U8uULVZjfRQWlHeHVJdDJjcms/edit?usp=drive_web ​ Basically I am following this paper for my work : ​ Lervik_ProtWatInterHT_2009.pdf

Re: [gmx-users] a question related to gmx energy minimization

2015-04-26 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/26/15 7:42 PM, Brett wrote: Dear Justin, I mean why the RMSD is such huge. Does it mean in the energy mminimization step the protein has moved from point A to point B which is long long distance away from point A but, although the protein has been continously embedded in water? If the

Re: [gmx-users] Using thermostats to create temperature gradient in system

2015-04-26 Thread Agnivo Gosai
Hello all, Thanks to Dr. Lemkul for asking. This is what I did to reach my present state : (a) Prepared the topology of the system using GROMOS96 43a2 ff and energy minimized the system after solvation using steepest descent algorithm. (b) Did a position restrained ( protein ) 5 ns Fatal

Re: [gmx-users] Using thermostats to create temperature gradient in system

2015-04-26 Thread Agnivo Gosai
Hello all, Thanks to Dr. Lemkul for asking. This is what I did to reach my present state : (a) Prepared the topology of the system using GROMOS96 43a2 ff and energy minimized the system after solvation using steepest descent algorithm. (b) Did a position restrained ( protein restrained ) 5 ns

Re: [gmx-users] a question related to gmx energy minimization

2015-04-26 Thread Brett
Dear Justin, I mean why the RMSD is such huge. Does it mean in the energy mminimization step the protein has moved from point A to point B which is long long distance away from point A but, although the protein has been continously embedded in water? If the RMSD is above several thousands, it

Re: [gmx-users] Using thermostats to create temperature gradient in system

2015-04-26 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/26/15 7:07 PM, Agnivo Gosai wrote: Hello Users, This is in relation to my previous posts. I am looking to replicate the figure below : ​ tempgradient.png https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-U8uULVZjfRQWlHeHVJdDJjcms/edit?usp=drive_web ​ Basically I am following this paper for my work :

Re: [gmx-users] Using thermostats to create temperature gradient in system

2015-04-26 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/26/15 8:14 PM, Agnivo Gosai wrote: Hello all, Thanks to Dr. Lemkul for asking. This is what I did to reach my present state : (a) Prepared the topology of the system using GROMOS96 43a2 ff and energy minimized the system after solvation using steepest descent algorithm. (b) Did a

Re: [gmx-users] Using thermostats to create temperature gradient in system

2015-04-26 Thread Agnivo Gosai
Hello, I am copy pasting my mdp file for the last step of my procedure : Here I am not using any freeze group. ; Run parameters integrator = md; leap-frog integrator nsteps = 5; 100 ps dt = 0.002 ; 2 fs energygrps = Protein

Re: [gmx-users] Using thermostats to create temperature gradient in system

2015-04-26 Thread Agnivo Gosai
Dr. Lemkul Thanks for such an easy fix to my problem. I guess I have been doing all sort of weird stuff since last night instead of thinking logically and reading the relevant portion of the manual. Thanks Regards Agnivo Gosai Grad Student, Iowa State University. -- Gromacs Users mailing list

Re: [gmx-users] Using thermostats to create temperature gradient in system

2015-04-26 Thread Agnivo Gosai
Hello users, Thanks a lot Suzen for an insightful suggestion. My protein and solvent have been equilibrated at 300 K in an NVT ensemble. I raised the temperature of protein gradually by using simulated annealing to 400 K and the solvent has been kept at 300 K. Now I wish to get a temperature

Re: [gmx-users] Constraints and Energy Minimization

2015-04-26 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/26/15 3:40 PM, Eric Smoll wrote: Hello Dr Lemkul, Thank you for the clarification. To summarize: If I have a bond between two atoms and one of the atoms has a topology atom field that begins with the letter H, constraints=h-bonds will transform it into a constraint. Exactly. I have

Re: [gmx-users] Constraints and Energy Minimization

2015-04-26 Thread Eric Smoll
Hello Dr Lemkul, Thank you for the clarification. To summarize: If I have a bond between two atoms and one of the atoms has a topology atom field that begins with the letter H, constraints=h-bonds will transform it into a constraint. I have another question. When specifying this constrained

[gmx-users] difference of calculation time between the numbers of fep-lambdas values

2015-04-26 Thread nao.morishita
Dear Gromacs Users, I would appreciate you to give me any comments or hints about the question below. What makes the calculation time much longer when I calculate a solvation free energy using the mdp input1 compared to the mdp input2? Input1 Free_energy = yes Couple-lambda0=

[gmx-users] the relationship between mdp file and the force field

2015-04-26 Thread Brett
Dear All, In the on-line Justin tutorial on lysozyme, the several mdp files are for the specific force field OPLS-AA force field. It specifically mentioned Settings, particularly nonbonded interaction settings, will be different for other force fields. Will you please introduce to me how to