On 7/11/12 7:12 AM, reising...@rostlab.informatik.tu-muenchen.de wrote:
Hi Justin,
ah okey. Thank you.
And I have another question. Why is the protein in the corner of the box
and not in the middle?
I thought I centered it with the command:

editconf -f wholeProtein.gro -o 3m71_box.gro -center 4.59340   4.59470
  5.17330 -c -bt dodecahedron -d 1.0 2>>logErr 1>>logOut

Or not?


Have you tried trjconv -pbc mol -ur compact? The "center" of an infinite system is an arbitrary location; you have to re-wrap the unit cell to achieve the expected outcome. It's centered, it just may not look like it in the current representation.

-Justin



On 7/11/12 6:13 AM, reising...@rostlab.informatik.tu-muenchen.de wrote:
Hi everybody,
I did a minimization of my structure. But the output seems a bit strange
for me, since my input was the protein with its membrane in a box like
this:
# = box  P = Protein  M=Membrane


#############
#      PPPP #
#     MPPPPM#
#      PPPP #
#           #
#           #
#############

But the output of the minimization looks like this

#############
#        PPPP#
   #M     MPPPP #
    #      PPPP  #
     #            #
      #            #
       ##############

How can that be?

It's a triclinic representation of the unit cell.  Nothing is wrong.

My box was created with:

editconf -f wholeProtein.gro -o 3m71_box.gro -center 4.59340   4.59470
5.17330 -c -bt dodecahedron -d 1.0 2>>logErr 1>>logOut


Is a dodecahedral box appropriate for a protein in a membrane?  The
inherent
symmetry of a slab of any sort dictates that you should be using a cubic
or
rectangular box.  Dodecahedral and octahedral boxes are better for systems
with
spherical symmetry, like globular proteins in water.


I put solvent in it with:

genbox -cp 3m71_box.gro -cs spc216.gro -p 3m71.top -o 3m71_water.gro
2>>logErr 1>>logOut


The mdp file for the minimization looks like this:

define                  = -DPOSRES
integrator              = steep
emtol           = 10
nsteps          = 1500
nstenergy               = 1
energygrps              = System
coulombtype             = PME
rcoulomb                = 0.9
rvdw                    = 0.9
rlist           = 0.9
fourierspacing  = 0.12
pme_order               = 4
ewald_rtol              = 1e-5
pbc                     = xyz


Can you please tell me how I can prevent my box to shift?


There is no box shift; it's just a visual representation of the
dodecahedral
box.  You can "correct" it (for visualization purposes) by running trjconv
-pbc
mol -ur compact.

-Justin

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