[gmx-users] where are GB parameters stored?

2011-12-30 Thread David Mobley
d like to be able to look at the table of existing parameters). I've been looking through the "top" directory and can't find them anywhere. Can anyone give me a pointer to where they are? Or are they hardwired into the code somewhere? Thanks so much, David -- David Mobley dmob

Re: [gmx-users] Regarding free energy calculation

2011-12-19 Thread David Mobley
Hunenberger papers from J. Chem. Phys (2006 or 2007) and references therein. The good news is that for simple spherical ions K&H have worked out the relevant corrections. The bad news is that if you move away from simple spherical ions you've got problems. David Mobley On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 a

[gmx-users] dihedral restraints documentation

2011-10-05 Thread David Mobley
ld be documented in the manual since (with this behavior) knowing what value of dihre-fc one is using is critical to knowing what dihedral restraint strength one is using. Thanks. -- David Mobley dmob...@gmail.com 504-383-3662 -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromac

Re: [gmx-users] FEP charged molecule cuestion

2011-08-21 Thread David Mobley
sts/Search before posting! > Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the > www interface or send it to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. > Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists > -- David Mobley dmob...@gmail.com 504-383-3662 -- gmx

Re: [gmx-users] FEP and loss of performance

2011-04-06 Thread David Mobley
/  still I think that there must be some underlying coding issue >> > (probably />>/  one that only exists because of a reasonable assumption >> > that nobody />>/  would annihilate the largest part of their system). >> > />>/ >> > />>/  Ch

[gmx-users] hyperthreading

2010-08-09 Thread David Mobley
ously can do some benchmarking myself as well but I thought I'd check in with the list first. Thanks so much, David -- David Mobley dmob...@gmail.com 504-383-3662 -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archi

[gmx-users] Re: script to constraint distance between ligand and protein

2010-03-18 Thread David Mobley
nd and > protein, I have individual .top and .gro files for protein and ligand. > > Thanks in Advance > -- > Best Regards > SUNITA GUPTA > David Mobley dmob...@gmail.com 504-383-3662 -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman

[gmx-users] Fwd: md.c for 3.3.3

2010-02-09 Thread David Mobley
Erik On Jul 29, 2009, at 12:18 AM, David Mobley wrote: > Erik, > > Here's the fixed md.c for 3.3.3. It is a one-line fix and is > commented with DLM. > > Please note that the basic fix was developed by you guys in this > Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gromacs.org/show_bug.cgi?

Re: [gmx-users] FEP problem with lambda perturbation 1 to 0.95

2009-08-07 Thread David Mobley
I agree with Carsten. See perhaps the discussion at www.alchemistry.org as well. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Carsten Kutzner wrote: > On Aug 6, 2009, at 10:57 PM, Ragnarok sdf wrote: > > I am performing FEP do obtain the dimerization of a protein in >> membrane. The lambda intervals i am us

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Free Energy Calculation

2009-08-07 Thread David Mobley
hen what guarantees that the the volume/density is correct > at the end of the equilibration phase when the user is advised to switch to > NVT? > > Peter Nagy > The University of Toledo > > -Original Message- > From: gmx-users-boun...@gromacs.org on behalf of David

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Free Energy Calculation

2009-08-07 Thread David Mobley
-Original Message- > From: gmx-users-boun...@gromacs.org on behalf of David Mobley > Sent: Thu 8/6/2009 2:38 PM > To: Mauricio Carrillo Tripp > Cc: Discussion list for GROMACS users > Subject: [gmx-users] Re: Free Energy Calculation > > Hi, > > Sorry for the delay answering

[gmx-users] Re: Free Energy Calculation

2009-08-06 Thread David Mobley
Hi, Sorry for the delay answering. These questions are better put on the GROMACS users list. 1) Yes -- the Berendsen barostat does not sample the correct distribution of pressures. 2) Regenerating velocities is fine for a couple of reasons: (a) we are after thermodynamics, not dynamics, a

[gmx-users] Fwd: fixed "3.3.3"?

2009-07-27 Thread David Mobley
y components (which is yet another reason why we need a patched 3.3.x to compare to), given the number of times we were burned by free energy bugs in 3.3.x. Thanks for your help. David Mobley, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry University of New Orleans New Orleans, LA 70148 dlm

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Free energy with Gromacs.

2009-04-10 Thread David Mobley
You may also want to look at www.alchemistry.org, as it has some general information about how these should be set up. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: > > Again, *please keep all Gromacs-related correspondence on the mailing list* >  The type of information that you have

Re: [gmx-users] funny zero-step mdrun results in 4.0.3

2009-02-11 Thread David Mobley
Berk, > I checked the gro manual page: > http://www.gromacs.org/documentation/reference_4.0/online/gro.html > and found out that it is actually pretty clear. > Note that it is fixed format, but with flexible precision which is derived > from the space between the decimal points. Thanks. I was loo

Re: [gmx-users] funny zero-step mdrun results in 4.0.3

2009-02-11 Thread David Mobley
David, > Both your gro files are wrong, the definition of gro files has never > changed. Do you mean to say this has ever worked? Yes, it worked fine in 3.3.x. I would point out that trjconv has an -ndec option which, if used to output a gro file, will generate high-precision gro files as output.

[gmx-users] funny zero-step mdrun results in 4.0.3

2009-02-10 Thread David Mobley
All, I'm trying to run a zero-step mdrun in 4.0.3 (basically just to evaluate the energy of a specific configuration). I've done this test in 3.3.x and am trying to check if 4.0.3 gives the same energies. I'm also comparing against another simulation package. To this end, I have my starting coordi

Re: [gmx-users] shake for water

2009-02-10 Thread David Mobley
ubject: Re: [gmx-users] shake for water >> >> >> >> Berk Hess wrote: >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > > Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 19:35:09 +0100 >> >> > > From: sp...@xray.bmc.uu.se >> >> > > To:

Re: [gmx-users] Free energy perturbation of Cu(I) binding

2009-02-09 Thread David Mobley
27;ll need to make sure you explore the energy landscape enough to establish some level of consequence that the preferred state for the protein in the absence of the copper isn't the unfolded state (I'm not talking experimentally, here -- I'm talking about with your particular paramet

Re: [gmx-users] shake for water

2009-02-09 Thread David Mobley
rom: sp...@xray.bmc.uu.se >> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org >> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] shake for water >> >> Berk Hess wrote: >> > >> > >> > > Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 19:35:09 +0100 >> > > From: sp...@xray.bmc.uu.se >> > > To: gmx-u

Re: [gmx-users] shake for water

2009-02-09 Thread David Mobley
> No, it is not the square. > The code does a small 'a' approximation: (1+a)^2=1+2a+a^2 is approx 1+2a. > I have also tested/benchmark shake in gromacs for my first lincs paper > and the plincs paper and it always behaved the way I thought it would. > > The problem is not that you need more iterati

Re: [gmx-users] shake for water

2009-02-09 Thread David Mobley
Berk, > Another question, just to be sure. > Have you actually checked that the other code really gets the distances > right up to 1e-12? Yes. > Berk > >> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:03:21 -0600 >> From: dmob...@gmail.com >> To: gmx-users@gromacs.org >> Subject: [gmx-users] shake for water >> >> Al

[gmx-users] shake for water

2009-02-05 Thread David Mobley
All, A quick question on constraints... I'm using TIP4P-Ew in gromacs 3.3.2 and am concerned with reproducing energies from another code very precisely for several specific snapshots. I am doing a zero-step mdrun of a setup with one small molecule and two tip4p-ew water molecules. Anyway, I have

Re: [gmx-users] Free energy perturbation of Cu(I) binding

2009-02-03 Thread David Mobley
Perhaps this is obvious, but typically you only want to do free energy perturbation if you are interested in computing a free energy difference. If you are merely interested in structural properties of a different system (in this case, the protein without the copper there) you can simply make the c

Re: [gmx-users] free energy with TIP4P bug fixed

2009-01-29 Thread David Mobley
doing some testing, but I anticipate that I will ultimately > have to submit errata for two different papers I've published in which > I used the TIP4P-Ew water model in combination with GROMACS. I urge > you to check your own studies that have used TIP4P/TIP4P-Ew and see if > they

[gmx-users] TIP4P/TIP4P-Ew bug potentially affecting all calculations done with TIP4P with some (few?) exceptions

2009-01-29 Thread David Mobley
ultimately have to submit errata for two different papers I've published in which I used the TIP4P-Ew water model in combination with GROMACS. I urge you to check your own studies that have used TIP4P/TIP4P-Ew and see if they are affected. David Mobley Assistant Professor Department o

[gmx-users] Re: free energy with TIP4P bug fixed

2009-01-29 Thread David Mobley
mized loops, for sure it was in 3.3. I have fixed this for the upcoming Gromacs 4.0.4 release. I assume this bug also caused the cut-off dependence that David Mobley observed. I have done a lot of free energy calculation with tip4p and never noticed any problems. This was because I alway

[gmx-users] rcoulomb, rlist

2009-01-15 Thread David Mobley
y be some sort of an underlying problem here. On my list of things to do is to see whether I still get the same results in GROMACS 4. Thanks for your help, David Mobley ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listi

Re: [gmx-users] Large dV/dlambda value at lambda = 0

2008-12-22 Thread David Mobley
Bob, > I'm computing the relative binding free energies of DNA bases on a > nanotube using the protocol listed here: > http://www.dillgroup.ucsf.edu/group/wiki/index.php/Free_Energy:_Tutorial > I'm using the following steps: > 1. Turn off all charges on base > 2. Transform LJ parameters > 3. Turn o

Re: [gmx-users] Free energy of transfer with accuracy

2008-12-17 Thread David Mobley
ver soft core functional form you use. This just means >> you will need to run longer simulations in this regime. >> >> Anyway, long story short, I suggest two things: (a) Make sure you turn >> off partial charges on C60 (without using soft core) before turning >> off the LJ

Re: [gmx-users] Free energy of transfer with accuracy

2008-12-17 Thread David Mobley
my data suggests this is likely. :) Personal experience tells me that this would probably be the case but I haven't ever seen a publication on this. David David Mobley, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry University of New Orleans New Orleans, LA 70148 dlmob...@uno.edu Office 504-280-6445 Fax

Re: [gmx-users] Free energy of transfer with accuracy

2008-12-11 Thread David Mobley
- Bloco B, Sala 1048 > 09210-170 Santo André - SP Brasil > +55.11.4437-8408 > skype: eefileti > http://cromo.ufabc.edu.br/~fileti/ >> >> >> -- >> >> Message: 4 >> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:24:26 -0600 >> From: "David Mobley&q

Re: [gmx-users] Relative Binding Free Energy Calculation

2008-12-11 Thread David Mobley
Bob, > When performing a relative binding free energy calculation, I > understand that it is a good practice to separate the transformation > of charges of the ligand and the transformation of vdW parameters into > two calculations. However, is it advisable to completely discharge the > ligand bef

Re: [gmx-users] Free energy of transfer with accuracy

2008-12-11 Thread David Mobley
w exactly you're doing the transformation and could use more detail on how you've set this up. A more straightforward (and easier?) way to do this would be to transfer the solute to vacuum from each solvent and then take the difference in the vacuum transfer free energies. Please clarify w

Re: [gmx-users] charge changes in free energy calculations

2008-10-02 Thread David Mobley
Hi, As long as you end up with the same charge in the initial and final states, you should be OK. It's only if your total transformation involves a change of net charge that you need to worry. So you should be fine if you turn off the charges on D, change the LJ interactions, and turn back on the

[gmx-users] off topic: graduate school opportunity

2008-10-02 Thread David Mobley
ile I do not currently have RA support for students, I anticipate having some in the near future, and in the meantime anyone joining my group would be supported by a TA position. Thanks for your time. David Mobley, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry University of New Orleans New Orleans, LA

Re: [gmx-users] mass changes in free energy calculations

2008-07-03 Thread David Mobley
sk this since I found the forwards and backwards mutation free energy are > more consistant if I do not change the mass. Accidentally? > > LQ > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:26 AM, David Mobley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> You can change the mass if you like. Ba

Re: [gmx-users] mass changes in free energy calculations

2008-06-18 Thread David Mobley
You can change the mass if you like. Basically, the net free energy change associated with changing the mass should end up being zero so it will be irrelevant. The mass of course affects the dynamics and things like the velocities, but based on equipartition you can convince yourself that the free

Re: [gmx-users] Re: forward and reverse free energy not consistant (Li Qiang)

2008-06-18 Thread David Mobley
Sorry to be slow to chime in here, but there are several reasons one might run into hysteresis, even when not using "slow growth": 1) The aforementioned bug 2) Topology errors 3) Convergence problems. Of 3), there could be many different types. A recurring source of these problems is when people

Re: [gmx-users] Enthalpy and entropy of binding from thermodynamic integration

2008-06-06 Thread David Mobley
Bob, Berk is right. Essentially, it would be easy if we could accurately compute, say, the total enthalpy of our two systems and simply subtract. Unfortunately it's very hard to converge this quantity (basically, subtracting two very large numbers where the error bars are bigger than the differenc

Re: [gmx-users] Free energy calculations and speed problems

2008-05-20 Thread David Mobley
Justin and Michael, Just to clarify here, I don't think you want the "long cutoff in vacuum" scheme to give you the same results as the "PME in vacuum" scheme. That is, if you use PME in vacuum with a periodic box, you will be including copies of the long-range unscreened electrostatic interaction

Re: [gmx-users] Free energy calculations and speed problems

2008-05-19 Thread David Mobley
Yes, what he said. On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:00 PM, van Bemmelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Justin, > > You shouldn't use PME in vacuo. Just use pbc=no and infinite (i.o.w.: no) > cutoffs. > > I'm not entirely sure why PME takes such a long time, but I can give a very > wild guess. It may hav

Re: [gmx-users] Free energy of discharging and then recharging not zero

2008-05-08 Thread David Mobley
is another matter). Second, the behavior you're describing strikes me as really odd and I think you should get to the bottom of it to make sure there isn't a bug. Hope this helps, David > Bob > > > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:12 PM, David Mobley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [gmx-users] Free energy of discharging and then recharging not zero

2008-05-07 Thread David Mobley
Bob, > Hello everyone, > I'm trying to calculate the free energy of binding of DNA bases on a > carbon nanotube. I'm running some tests to make sure that I'm doing > everything correctly. One thing I tried was turning off all the atom > charges of the DNA base and then turning them back on aga

Re: [gmx-users] Entropy correction in PMF

2008-04-24 Thread David Mobley
Chris, I think you are correct here. For binding calculations there is probably a further trick relating to how to define an unbound state that has a well-defined concentration. This I think depends on how one is pulling -- i.e. doing simple radial PMFs is probably a bad idea, because to even conv

[gmx-users] Re: Free energy

2008-04-09 Thread David Mobley
Dear Eudes, I don't have time to provide personalized help with this at present. You'll be better off writing the gromacs forum. You may also want to refer to the general information on performing free energy calculations at http://www.alchemistry.org and previous posts on the gromacs users list.

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-27 Thread David Mobley
Berk, > Hmm. Is this different from how other packages handle this issue? I > have never had the recurring problems with minimization in GROMACS > that I have in other packages. Even though, strangely enough, water is > a common feature in most of the simulations I run. That was backwards. I

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-27 Thread David Mobley
Berk, > I assume you are using a rigid water model, and thus constraints via SETTLE. Yes, OK. > Constraining is required to measure the size of the force (for convergence > and > step size adjustment) and to make correct steps without enormous extra > displacements in the direction of the force

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-27 Thread David Mobley
Berk, > The problem could be in the constraints. > Gromacs 3 constrains the forces during EM by adding c*f to the coordinates, > constraining those and then dividing the constraint displacement by c. > This limits the accuracy. > > In Gromacs 4 I have implemented force constraining for LINCS and S

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-26 Thread David Mobley
Dear Christian, > mmh, just my 0.02€: I guess in a very rough energy landscape (as in > solvated peptides or proteins) this is not generally true, because > with small steps the system might get stuck in the next tiny local > minimum, while with a larger step size it may jump across it. > And

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-26 Thread David Mobley
Mark, > However should you find yourself on a very flat area of the PES, then > the smaller the step size, the closer it will look to flat, and thus to > have converged to a stationary point. "Flat" is of course relative to > the step size Right. But of course the problem here has is that

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-26 Thread David Mobley
Xavier, > I was surprised by the value you use for emstep=1.0e-8. This is the > "maximum step size" and is in nm! I think that's where your problem is. I added this recently in testing because I thought perhaps the problem could be due to using too large of steps. It does not help. So everythin

[gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-26 Thread David Mobley
All, I often have problems with minimization in gromacs, but now I think I have something a little more systematic to say. First, my system: I am simulating a short peptide in a mix of two co-solvents. I use a program called packmol which can start pack specified number of molecules into a box of

Re: [gmx-users] average structure with ligand

2008-03-21 Thread David Mobley
Be sure to see http://wiki.gromacs.org/index.php/Average_Structure for help interpreting results. On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Ran Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Anna, > > Use make_ndx to create any group you find useful. > > Ran. > > > > Anna Marabotti wrote: > > Dear gmx-user

Re: [gmx-users] Free energy of dihedral restraint

2008-03-21 Thread David Mobley
Bob, I don't believe that it is implemented. Developers: It probably should be, since the other restraints can be perturbed. In the interim, it's pretty straightforward to compute the dV/dlambda for restraining from the restraint energy if you know the value of the dihedral angle (which you can e

Re: [gmx-users] ligand-protein interaction using gromacs

2008-03-11 Thread David Mobley
Regarding amb2gmx.pl, it should work for converting whole systems from Amber, but this may depend on the box geometry you are using. In particular I think it is OK with cubic boxes but not some of the more fancy geometries. The other option is just to convert your protein+ligand and solvate using g

Re: [gmx-users] Free energy of turning on restraints

2008-02-28 Thread David Mobley
Bob, > Unfortunately, I'm having problems including the correct restraints in > my topology file. First off, the form of the angle restraint in > Gromacs involves 4 (2 pairs) atoms. The restraint in the Boresch paper > assumes that the angle is between 3 atoms. Is there anyway to apply > the

Re: [gmx-users] Harmonic dihedral restraints

2008-02-26 Thread David Mobley
ok like a harmonic potential in the dihedral angles. Am I just not > seeing something correctly? > Bob > > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:47 PM, David Mobley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Robert, > > > > I am not sure which manual you are looki

Re: [gmx-users] Harmonic dihedral restraints

2008-02-25 Thread David Mobley
Robert, I am not sure which manual you are looking at, but in the GROMACS 3.3 manual, equation 4.70 gives the dihedral restraint as harmonic. David On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Robert Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am trying to calculate the absolute free energy

Re: [gmx-users] Strange dgdl-value together with lincs

2008-02-20 Thread David Mobley
Maik, > Assume, you take the interconversion of ethane to methanol in solvent in > one step. > You sample hardcore at 11 evenly spaced lambda values for, lets say, 2 > ns each. > You get the dG/dl mean from every run and integrate via simpson to get a > total DG. Hold on, if you are doing t

Re: 回复: Re: 回复: Re: 回复: Re: 回复: Re: [gmx-users] about using amb2gmx.pl

2008-02-18 Thread David Mobley
I think I can probably shed a little bit of light here, although Mark is getting close in the last chapter of his e-mail. Basically, pdb2gmx works well for parameterizing proteins, which the chromophore in question isn't, I'm sure. Since we do lots of protein-ligand simulations, where the ligand i

Re: [gmx-users] Free Energy Calculations

2008-02-16 Thread David Mobley
be affected by a bug. It seems like he would have needed to (a) read the entire history of the mailing list, and (b) wade through all of the old bugzillas. Thanks, David On Feb 16, 2008 3:19 PM, David Mobley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Justin, > > > I'll preface th

Re: [gmx-users] Free Energy Calculations

2008-02-16 Thread David Mobley
sing > thermodynamic integration to determine my DeltaG values. Bonded parameters > remain untouched. I follow closely the procedure posted by David Mobley at > the > DillGroup Wiki site, changing only a few parameters for my simulation, as I am > using Gromos96, not OPLS-AA. Tha

[gmx-users] Re: free energy calculation

2008-02-11 Thread David Mobley
this) and get help from someone else on there, or i will be able to attend to it (in that forum) in a few days. Thanks, David Mobley On Feb 11, 2008 5:14 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear david, > i 'm a beginner in molecular dynamics. I was doing the tutorial of md > gro

Re: [gmx-users] Deviations in free energies with slow growth (single and 3-step process)

2008-02-08 Thread David Mobley
col I just don't know. David > Regards > > Maik Goette, Dipl. Biol. > Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry > Theoretical & computational biophysics department > Am Fassberg 11 > 37077 Goettingen > Germany > Tel. : ++49 551 201 2310 > Fax : ++4

[gmx-users] do-dssp

2008-02-07 Thread David Mobley
All, I'm using do_dssp to do some secondary structure analysis. I have a peptide with two nonstandard residues, one at the N-terminus and one at the C-terminus, and a total of N residues. The output of do_dssp only contains information on N-2 residues (numbered 1 through N-2) while my trajectory i

Re: [gmx-users] Deviations in free energies with slow growth (single and 3-step process)

2008-02-07 Thread David Mobley
Maik, > I simulated a switching process (slow growth TI) over 10ns of ethane to > methanol with hardcore slow-growth in water (365 TIP4P waters,PME) and > in vacuum. The thermodynamic cycle of this calculation yields a DeltaG, > which is in perfect agreement with the experiment and other calculati

Re: [gmx-users] dihedral restraints in v3.3 different than v3.3.1 (or broken)

2008-01-28 Thread David Mobley
Chris, At one point the forces were incorrrect in the dihedral restraints. I *think* this was in 3.3 but one of the developers will probably know. I have a note to this effect in one of my publications too but I haven't the time to find it right now. David On Jan 26, 2008 10:43 PM, <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [gmx-users] Rugged dG/dlambda when turning off charges

2008-01-25 Thread David Mobley
> really isn't any reason to use the soft core potentials when turning > off the charges right? Thus, sc_alpha should be set to zero when > turning off charges? > Thanks, > Bob > > On Jan 25, 2008 5:38 PM, David Mobley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It will

Re: [gmx-users] Rugged dG/dlambda when turning off charges

2008-01-25 Thread David Mobley
It will only be smooth if you don't use soft core (i.e. sc-alpha =0 ). Best, David Mobley http://www.dillgroup.ucsf.edu/~dmobley On Jan 25, 2008 12:40 PM, Robert Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm trying to comput

Re: [gmx-users] Question Regarding Ligand-Enzyme Complex

2008-01-24 Thread David Mobley
For what it's worth, I seem to recall that the ProDrg server itself warns rather strongly about the charges being unreliable, and I definitely agree with Berk here. My favorite approach for modeling small molecules is to use the AMBER GAFF small molecule force field in combination with one of the

Re: [gmx-users] FEP trajectory errors

2008-01-17 Thread David Mobley
r is actually fairly sensitive. This *could* lead to crashes, but I don't know about freezing/vibrating. Let me know if this helps. Best wishes, David Mobley UCSF http://www.dillgroup.ucsf.edu/~dmobley > Can anyone comment on what's going on here? > Thanks, > Bob Johnson > _

Re: [gmx-users] replica exchange output information

2008-01-07 Thread David Mobley
I have further replica exchange questions... > >> The order is that from low temperature to high temperature (as you could > >> check from the edr files) and when swaps happen the coordinates and > >> boxes are exchanged between CPUs. > > > > OK. In other words the replicas are always ordered by t

Re: [gmx-users] replica exchange output information

2008-01-07 Thread David Mobley
David, > The order is that from low temperature to high temperature (as you could > check from the edr files) and when swaps happen the coordinates and > boxes are exchanged between CPUs. OK. In other words the replicas are always ordered by temperature. > > > > As a follow-up question, is there

[gmx-users] replica exchange output information

2008-01-07 Thread David Mobley
0 .22 .41 .55 .20 .27 .13 .21 I can't find where it's explained what this information means. For example, why are there x's between some numbers and not others? Thanks! David Mobley UCSF http://www.dillgroup.ucsf.edu/~dmobley _

Re: [gmx-users] topology treatment in free energy calculations - possible bug

2008-01-04 Thread David Mobley
Maik > I just found a strange behaviour of GROMACS, when processing topologies > with B-values. Maybe I just think of it as unintuitive/bug, but here we go: > > e.g. OPLS > > Consider an angle given (all atoms have B-values, which angle-parameter > can be found by GROMACS in the bonded.itp for the

Re: [gmx-users] topology treatment in free energy calculations - possible bug_2nd

2008-01-04 Thread David Mobley
Maik, > It just came to my mind, that the behaviour, I described in the first > mail will be quite dangerous, whenever #define statements are in the > topology, cause this would lead to the insertion of the FF-values in the > topology, when preprocessing, and then be copied into the B-state > afte

[gmx-users] Re: grompp warnings/errors I haven't seen before

2008-01-03 Thread David Mobley
bugzilla with an example input file, I think. It's possible the problem is on my end somewhere, but as far as I can tell I'm not doing anything I'm not supposed to... Thanks, David On Jan 3, 2008 2:33 PM, David Mobley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I'm

[gmx-users] grompp warnings/errors I haven't seen before

2008-01-03 Thread David Mobley
t; mean? Clearly I've got something wrong in my topology or in the relationship between my topology and gro file, but this is not at all transparent. I'll poke around in the source and see if I can figure out what's going on but I thought I might be able

[gmx-users] opls parameters in distribution

2007-12-08 Thread David Mobley
#x27;ve done isn't really a viable option. Thanks, David Mobley ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/search before posting! P

Re: [gmx-users] how to deduce charges for gromos forcefield?

2007-11-26 Thread David Mobley
Probably the easiest way for you to get an answer to this is to look up the references which discuss the parameterization of the GROMOS force field. Consistency is the name of the game. See here: http://wiki.gromacs.org/index.php/Parameterization David On Nov 25, 2007 1:21 AM, Q733 <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [gmx-users] restart an amber run in gromacs

2007-11-21 Thread David Mobley
Hi, > servaas michielssens wrote: > > I used amb2gmx.pl (from http://chemistry.csulb.edu/ffamber/) to convert > > an amber topology and restart file to a gromacs topology and structure > > file and tried to continue the simulation in gromacs. I got the > > following error message: > > > > Constrai

Re: [gmx-users] Adding polarizability

2007-11-21 Thread David Mobley
David, > Interesting, does that include all the multipoles and buffered 7-14 > potentials etc? Yes. My understanding is that the implementation is somehow separate from the main AMBER implementation and actually requires a copy of Tinker to set up the input files, but this may have changed (I hav

Re: [gmx-users] Adding polarizability

2007-11-21 Thread David Mobley
David, > As Mark answered there is no out of thebox polarizability. AFAIK there > is no complete force field like that in Amber either, only Tinker has one. Just to clarify here, AMBER has an implementation of AMOEBA, Jay Ponder's polarizable force field that is also implemented in Tinker. So yes

Re: [gmx-users] How to delete bad water molecules

2007-11-16 Thread David Mobley
Chris, > I don't know the answer to the exact question that you have posed, but > I instead suggest that getting rid of that water molecule is not a > good idea. You should rather minimize your system. While minimizing, > be sure to include > > define=-DFLEXIBLE > > in your .mdp file Just out of

Re: [gmx-users] soft-core and coulomb transformation

2007-11-12 Thread David Mobley
ry, what I mean by "charging" versus "discharging" is that "charging" is where the A state has zero charges and the B state has normal charges, and discharging is the reverse. So "charging" is the scenario you describe, and "discharging" is the re

Re: [gmx-users] soft-core and coulomb transformation

2007-11-12 Thread David Mobley
test cases). Bharat, be sure you submit a bugzilla and we'll see how things go from there. I may at some point try setting up some of my own relative free energy topologies and see if I see the same effects, but I'm not likely to have time for that for a couple days. Thanks, David On 11

Re: [gmx-users] soft-core and coulomb transformation

2007-11-12 Thread David Mobley
subject same so that it is helpful to track in > future :) > > > On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, David Mobley wrote: > > Dear Bharat, > > > > OK, I went ahead and ran with your topologies using my own run > > scripts. My runs haven't finished yet, but looking at just >

[gmx-users] Ace-Ala-Nac to Ace-Gly-Nac

2007-11-10 Thread David Mobley
Dear Bharat, OK, I went ahead and ran with your topologies using my own run scripts. My runs haven't finished yet, but looking at just values from equilibration, I seem to be seeing roughly the same trends you do. In particular: (1) The forward simulation always gives dv/dlambda values that are

Re: [gmx-users] soft-core and coulomb transformation

2007-11-10 Thread David Mobley
Bharat, Your values for the first set of calculations (the forward case?) below look really weird. I suspect you have something messed up in those runs. Have you checked that your define statements worked properly, and checked your run input files? In particular, your is staying almost constant a

Re: [gmx-users] Re: mdrun -rerun and box size bug not fixed?

2007-11-07 Thread David Mobley
Hi, > By reactivating the barostat as mentioned below, I managed to recover LJ > energies within 0.1% for my test system, which was a box of 1136 waters. > So I applied the same thing to my system of interest (a 605 residue > protein with around 25000 waters). The only difference is that the run >

Re: [gmx-users] soft-core and coulomb transformation

2007-11-05 Thread David Mobley
Hi, > i am extremely sorry here.. i am plotting dg/dl vs lambda of reverse > transformation onto that of forward with both axes reversed. so i > should expect overlap. this is consistent with whatever you are saying. i > am sorry for negligence and confusion. And taking the negative? > >> but wh

Re: [gmx-users] soft-core and coulomb transformation

2007-11-05 Thread David Mobley
Hi, > it is fairly straight FORWARD.. forward is from state A to state B, and > reverse is from state B to state A. Say for example, forward > transformation is going from ethane to methane. in this step, i define > three of the terminal hydrogen on say C2, with zero charges and C2 with > charge o

Re: [gmx-users] soft-core and coulomb transformation

2007-11-05 Thread David Mobley
Hi, > Everything goes fine till this point. Now, i do reverse transformations to > check for hysteresis. For vdw transformations, i get almost perfect > overlap of dG/dlambda vs lambda for forward and reverse transformations, > but for coloumb transformations, if i don't use soft-core potentials,

Re: [gmx-users] mdrun -rerun and box size bug not fixed?

2007-11-01 Thread David Mobley
Dear Michel, Are you sure you're using 3.3.1? I have not checked this specific issue -- but I have checked that if I run hydration free energy calculations in patched 3.3.0, and again in patched 3.3.1, and do my usual free energy analysis using mdrun -rerun, I get the same values. That either tell

Re: [gmx-users] langevin dynamics

2007-10-30 Thread David Mobley
Just my unasked-for two cents: Langevin dynamics in water is probably a poor substitute for some representation of water. Langevin can provide some of the friction/noise of water -- but electrostatics interactions are very different in water than in vacuum. Langevin dynamics is probably not a subst

Re: [gmx-users] potential energy of only the protein

2007-10-30 Thread David Mobley
Hi, Depends on what you mean by "the potential energy of only the protein". The protein alone in what environment? (And what do you hope this will tell you?) One thing you can do -- assuming this is what you want to do -- is strip out all of the waters and then use mdrun -rerun to evaluate the po

Re: [gmx-users] thermodynamic integration

2007-10-27 Thread David Mobley
Hi, > is it possible to do thermodynamic integration in Gromacs using non-linear > scaling of the lamda paramerter? I'm not sure exactly what you mean, so first I'll answer what I think you mean, and then tell you what I think you ought to be asking. :) If you mean, "Is it possible to perform a

Re: [gmx-users] forcefield validation

2007-10-17 Thread David Mobley
> > First, thanks very much for your instruction. If quantum chemical > calculation does not have any physical meaning, how should I decide the > partial charge for a molecule? David is correct, he was referring to Mulliken charges. Again, there is no *right* answer to this, the name of the game

Re: [gmx-users] forcefield validation

2007-10-17 Thread David Mobley
Hi, Many > articles didn't give out the validation procedure of their topologies in > detail, are there some classic articles explaining how the forcefield we > used today, such as OPLS, GROMOS, AMBER and CHARMM , developed? I want to > know how they were deduced from the very beginning. There

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