Chih-Ying Lin wrote:
Hi
The follwing is my .out file.
 From it, can I conclude that some molecule clashing with another ?

No, you can conclude that your system is unstable. One possible reason is atomic clashing, but you cannot say for sure. General advice on your problem (which is encountered frequently, and as such, appears thousands of times in the list archive) can be found on the Gromacs wiki site:

http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors#LINCS.2fSETTLE.2fSHAKE_warnings
http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Blowing_Up

If you want further help, take the advice that I gave you before - look at the trajectory, focusing specifically on the problematic atoms (looks like 366 and 367 are having problems first, suggesting that either they, or atoms nearby, are unstable). I also asked about the success of your energy minimization, but you haven't provided that information. From the output, it seems that your simulation is crashing immediately, suggesting that EM did not work properly, and there *may* be unresolved clashes. You will have to do visual inspection to determine if this is the case.

-Justin

Thank you
Lin
Step -2, time -0.002 (ps) *LINCS WARNING*
relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
max 0.044043 (between atoms 366 and 368) rms 0.001724
bonds that rotated more than 30 degrees:
 atom 1 atom 2  angle  previous, current, constraint length
    366    367   36.8    0.1973   0.1301      0.1250
    366    368   36.6    0.1963   0.1305      0.1250
starting mdrun 'HEN EGG WHITE LYSOZYME in water'
5000 steps,      5.0 ps.

Step 0, time 0 (ps)  *LINCS WARNING
*relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
max 42.623165 (between atoms 1499 and 1518) rms 2.341352
bonds that rotated more than 30 degrees:
 atom 1 atom 2  angle  previous, current, constraint length
   1376   1377   39.1    0.1470   0.1471      0.1470
   1404   1405   59.8    0.1430   0.2374      0.1430
   1405   1406   88.5    0.1530   0.2358      0.1530
   1406   1407   76.6    0.1530   0.1851      0.1530
   1407   1408   74.3    0.1531   0.2407      0.1530
   1438   1439   34.8    0.1530   0.1557      0.1530
   1439   1440   34.4    0.1530   0.1594      0.1530
   1499   1518   90.0    0.1090   4.7549      0.1090
   1554   1578   90.0    0.1090   0.2729      0.1090
   1594   1595   53.5    0.1390   0.1650      0.1390
   1595   1596   57.1    0.1390   0.1515      0.1390
   1595   1615   90.3    0.1090   0.5874      0.1090
   1666   1652   48.5    0.1392   0.1535      0.1390
   1654   1678   90.1    0.1092   0.4554      0.1090
   1656   1679   90.2    0.1092   0.1300      0.1090
   1657   1680   90.0    0.1092   1.6346      0.1090
   1660   1661   58.0    0.1393   0.1424      0.1390
   1661   1662   54.5    0.1392   0.1467      0.1390
   1661   1681   88.9    0.1091   0.1237      0.1090
   1665   1684   89.8    0.1091   0.3454      0.1090
   1667   1666   53.1    0.1531   0.1364      0.1530
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Step 0, time 0 (ps)  LINCS WARNING
relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
max 597108032.000000 (between atoms 366 and 368) rms 26394490.000000
bonds that rotated more than 30 degrees:
 atom 1 atom 2  angle  previous, current, constraint length
     26     39   52.0    0.1530   0.1699      0.1530
     39     40   69.4    0.1230   0.1423      0.1230
     39     41   40.7    0.1330   0.1502      0.1330
     75     76   36.0    0.1250   0.1252      0.1250
    133    134   69.5    0.1530   0.1937      0.1530
    134    135   89.8    0.1470   0.2036      0.1470
    344    346   42.4    0.1470   0.2090      0.1470
    346    347   42.2    0.1530   0.2141      0.1530
*    346    359   63.9    0.1530 26006.0332      0.1530
    359    360   56.9    0.1230 26006.0469      0.1230
    359    361   83.2    0.1330 82898.5859      0.1330
    361    362   77.5    0.1000 82845.7109      0.1000
    361    363   83.8    0.1470 398710.1875      0.1470
    363    364   89.3    0.1530 1909291.8750      0.1530
    363    369   85.2    0.1530 393002.8125      0.1530
    364    365   90.0    0.1508 31146174.0000      0.1530
    365    366   90.2    0.1544 66925512.0000      0.1530
    366    367   92.7    0.1301 73689816.0000      0.1250
    366    368   87.0    0.1305 74638504.0000      0.1250
    369    370   72.1    0.1230 65978.3203      0.1230
    369    371   72.6    0.1330 66864.2812      0.1330
    371    372   85.7    0.1000 10685.0596      0.1000
    371    373   61.0    0.1470 10685.1035      0.1470
*    373    374   33.3    0.1530   0.1896      0.1530
    373    377   33.5    0.1530   0.1933      0.1530
    547    548   90.1    0.1089   0.1358      0.1090
    898    900   89.9    0.1530   0.4741      0.1530
   1045   1046   47.0    0.1780   0.1783      0.1780
   1118   1119   36.8    0.1090   0.1069      0.1090
   1128   1129   31.8    0.1000   0.1019      0.1000
   1130   1131   35.6    0.1340   0.1334      0.1340
   1152   1153   89.6    0.1530   0.2937      0.1530
   1153   1154   90.3    0.1529   2.2321      0.1530
   1154   1155   89.9    0.1529   7.7561      0.1530
   1155   1156   90.3    0.1470   8.2649      0.1470
   1156   1157   60.6    0.1000   0.1543      0.1000
   1156   1158   49.6    0.1339   0.1783      0.1340
   1158   1159   48.4    0.1340   0.1038      0.1340
   1159   1160   86.4    0.1000   0.1375      0.1000
   1165   1166   45.8    0.1230   0.1207      0.1230
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Chih-Ying Lin wrote:
 >
 >
 > Hi
 > My simulation broke down and the simulation procedues are as follows.
 >
 > 1. center a protein molecule in the simulation box
 > 2. put 20 ligands around the protein with  " genbox " command
 > 3. make sure that any atom of the ligands does not overlap on any atom
 > of the protein with Visulization-software.
 > 4. solvent addition , with the command " genbox *-vdwd*  0.2   "
 > 5. Addition of ions, with the command " genion "
 > 6. Energy minimization of the solvated system
 > 7. Position restrained MD
 >
 > => simulation broke down.
 > => It is very probable that some molecule clashing with another.
You can change "probable" to an actual answer if you analyze whatever LINCS
warnings are occurring (the atoms are listed) and by watching the resulting
trajectory.
 > => since i have made sured that any atom of the ligands does not overlap
 > on any atom of the protein with Visulization-software,
 >       the clashed pair of the molecules are possible " solvent vs
 > solvent "    or     "solvent vs protein"       or       "solvent vs
 > ligand "
Then you should follow up #4 above with another visual inspection, as you did with protein-ligand interactions, in addition to any information printed to the
log file (as above).
 > => however, from the Gromacs manual , command "genbox"
 >      " Solvent molecules are removed from the box where the distance
 > between any atom of the solute molecule(s) and any atom of the solvent
 > molecule is less
 >      than the sum of the VanderWaals radii of both atoms. A database
 > (vdwradii.dat <http://manual.gromacs.org/current/online/dat.html>) of
 > VanderWaals radii is read by the program, atoms not in the
 >      database are assigned a default distance -vdw."
 >
So solvent-solvent overlap shouldn't be a problem.
 > =>  here is    vdwradii.dat  (the ligand is simply made of C, N, O, H)
Yes, this is standard.
 > ; Very approximate VanderWaals radii
 > ; only used for drawing atoms as balls or for calculating atomic overlap.
 > ; longest matches are used
 > ; '???' or '*' matches any residue name
 > ; 'AAA' matches any protein residue name
 > ???  C     0.15
 > ???  F     0.12
 > ???  H     0.04
 > ???  N     0.110
 > ???  O     0.105
 > ???  S     0.16
 >
 > My questions are
 > 1. anything wrong of my simulation procedures ?
In theory, not really. What values of potential energy and maximum force did
the energy minimization converge to?
 > 2. how to find the clashed molecules ?
 >
Read the information printed to the log file (again, I'm assuming you're seeing
LINCS warnings, but you haven't told us what "broke" means!) and watch the
trajectory to see where things start to fall apart. As I suggested to someone earlier, if the crash is happening reasonably early, setting "nstxout = 1" is a
useful diagnostic to capture all frames prior to the crash.
-Justin
 > Thank you
 > Lin
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >

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Justin A. Lemkul
Ph.D. Candidate
ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
MILES-IGERT Trainee
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080
http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin

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