[gmx-users] Simulating a particle surface for interaction with peptides

2010-02-06 Thread Muhammad Naqvi
Hi all,
Wonderful community here! FAQs andManuals on one side, nothing beats the advice 
of experts. Whoever started this forum, thank you. I am learning a lot.

I have a question of my own. I am trying to see the interaction of certain 
surfactants and co-surfactants at a hydrophobic interface. To that end I have 
made a gro and top file using the element carbon, minimizing its box size to 
approximately its atomic radius 0.1nm by editconf, concatenating it by genconf 
100 times in x and y directions but only once in z, giving 1 carbon atoms. 
This generates a very nice surface. Then I follow up with editconf again to 
increase the size of the configuration file in the z direction to 10nm as well. 
So the end result is a 10x10x10nm box with a hydrophobic carbon wall on one 
side of the box. The wall's integrity is maintained using position restraints 
of a point for each carbon. To check the correctness of this procedure, I 
performed a minimization, however, during preprocessing using grompp a fatal 
error occurred:
 
Last line read:
'[ molecules ]'
Invalid order for directive molecules

I would like to inquire as to what this error is and how to avoid it. Just to 
verify if the manually produced topology or the configuration files were 
correct, I processed a benzene ring through the same procedure, ending up with 
the same error. Here is the topology file:


#include ffgmx.itp

[ moleculetype ]
; Name nrexcl
carbon  3

[ atoms ]
;   nr  type  resnr resid  atom  cgnr   charge mass
 1   C 1  carbon CAN 10.000  12.0350

[ position restraints ]
1 1 1000 1000 1000 ; restrain every carbon atom to a point

[ molecules ]
carbon 1

Any help would be highly appreciated. 

Cheers,
Ali
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Re: [gmx-users] Simulating a particle surface for interaction with peptides

2010-02-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul



Muhammad Naqvi wrote:

Hi all,
Wonderful community here! FAQs andManuals on one side, nothing beats the advice 
of experts. Whoever started this forum, thank you. I am learning a lot.

I have a question of my own. I am trying to see the interaction of certain 
surfactants and co-surfactants at a hydrophobic interface. To that end I have 
made a gro and top file using the element carbon, minimizing its box size to 
approximately its atomic radius 0.1nm by editconf, concatenating it by genconf 
100 times in x and y directions but only once in z, giving 1 carbon atoms. 
This generates a very nice surface. Then I follow up with editconf again to 
increase the size of the configuration file in the z direction to 10nm as well. 
So the end result is a 10x10x10nm box with a hydrophobic carbon wall on one 
side of the box. The wall's integrity is maintained using position restraints 
of a point for each carbon. To check the correctness of this procedure, I 
performed a minimization, however, during preprocessing using grompp a fatal 
error occurred:
 
Last line read:

'[ molecules ]'
Invalid order for directive molecules

I would like to inquire as to what this error is and how to avoid it. Just to 
verify if the manually produced topology or the configuration files were 
correct, I processed a benzene ring through the same procedure, ending up with 
the same error. Here is the topology file:


#include ffgmx.itp

[ moleculetype ]
; Name nrexcl
carbon  3

[ atoms ]
;   nr  type  resnr resid  atom  cgnr   charge mass
 1   C 1  carbon CAN 10.000  12.0350

[ position restraints ]
1 1 1000 1000 1000 ; restrain every carbon atom to a point

[ molecules ]
carbon 1

Any help would be highly appreciated. 



See the manual, Table 5.3 - you're missing the mandatory [system] directive.  If 
you get an invalid order error, either something is out of order or missing.


-Justin


Cheers,
Ali


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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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