[gmx-users] DNA-protein complex - which force field to use?

2015-02-01 Thread Jernej Zidar
Hi everyone!
  I would like to study a DNA-protein complex. The protein part is
composed of aminoacids covalently attached to the DNA bases. Which
force field would you recommend? Based on recent experience I was
thinking of using either OPLS-aa or CHARMM. OPLS-aa would be the
prefered choice because it performs way better than CHARMM.

  Any recommendations or experiences?

Thanks in advance!

Jernej
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Re: [gmx-users] Finding Surface tension between two interface

2015-02-01 Thread Bishnu Acharya
Thank you very much for your suggestion I appreciate your help regarding my
problem.

I have included following information in my md.mdp and nvt.mdp files. And I
got the trajectory files that is nvt.trr, md.trr. and .edr files too. Is it
seems ok or any thing going wrong for the calculation of surface tension.
Furthermore, I have used 1000 water molecule and 500 nonane molecules and
the box size 0.0 0.0 22.0. Now after getting  .trr and .edr files I could
not go further in the calculation of interfacial tension between water and
nonane.
Could you please provide appropriate command to go for surface tension.
Is it like this:  g_energy -f nvt.edr -s topol.tpr -o energy.xvg  or any
thing else?
after getting energy files please provide some idea for getting surface
tension.

Thank you



title = NON WATER NVT equilibration
;define = -DPOSRES ; position restrain the protein
; Run
parameters-
integrator = md ; leap-frog integrator
nsteps = 100 ; 2 * 5 = 100 ps
dt = 0.002 ; 2 fs
;
; Output control
nstfout   = 1000
nstxout = 1000 ; save coordinates every 0.2 ps
nstvout = 1000 ; save velocities every 0.2 ps
nstenergy = 1000 ; save energies every 0.2 ps
nstlog = 1000 ; update log file every 0.2 ps
;
; Center of mass removal

comm_mode   =  angular   ; linear Change to angular for no pbc
comm_grps   =  System
nstcomm =  10; freq of center of mass removal
;
; Bond
parameters
continuation = yes ; first dynamics run
constraint_algorithm = lincs ; holonomic constraints
constraints = all-bonds   ; all bonds (even heavy atom-H bonds) constrained
lincs_iter = 1 ; accuracy of LINCS
lincs_order = 4 ; also related to accuracy
;
Neighborsearching--
ns_type = grid ; search neighboring grid cells
nstlist = 5 ; 10 fs
rlist = 1.5 ; short-range neighborlist cutoff (in nm)
rvdw = 1.5 ; short-range van der Waals cutoff (in nm)
rcoulomb= 1.5
;
;
Electrostatics
vdwtype = cut-off
coulombtype = PME
energygrps  = SOL NON
;
; Temperature coupling is
on
tcoupl = nose-hoover ; modified Berendsen thermostat
nh-chain-length = 1
tc-grps = SOL NON ; two coupling groups - more accurate
tau_t = 0.2 0.2 ; time constant, in ps
ref_t = 250 250 ; reference temperature, one for each group, in K
;
; Pressure coupling is
off---
Pcoupl  =  no ;berendsen Parrinello-Rahman
tau_p   =  4
pcoupltype  = isotropic ;   isotropic anisotropic
compressibility =  4.5e-5 ; six for anisotropic 4.5e-5  4.5e-5  4.5e-5
 4.5e-5  4.5e-5  4.5e-5
ref_p   =  1.0 ;six for anisotropic 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
;
; Periodic boundary
conditions
pbc = xyz ; 3-D PBC
periodic_molecules  =  no
; Dispersion
correction---
DispCorr = no ; account for cut-off vdW scheme
; Velocity
generation
gen_vel = no ; assign velocities from Maxwell distribution
gen_temp = 260 ; temperature for Maxwell distribution
gen_seed = -1 ; generate a random seed


On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 4:00 AM, David van der Spoel 
wrote:

> On 2015-02-01 00:56, Bishnu Acharya wrote:
>
>> Hi, Gromacs user,
>>
>> I am doing the molecular dynamics simulation of NONANE and WATER. I am
>> struggling to find the surface tension I mean inter facial tension between
>> water and nonane. Could you please kindly provide some guide line for it.
>> Furthermore I am using box structure 0.0 0.0 20.0  is it compulsory to
>> create rectangular box? If so, could you please suggest me how to do it?
>>
>>  If you want water/nonane all you need to do is create a periodic box
> with an amount of water and an amount of nonane. These will phase separate
> and you will get two interfaces. Once in equilibrium you can extract the
> surface tension from g_energy. Not that you have two interface and have to
> divide the number by two, then check the units as well, IIRC it is in milli
> Newton / meter which is 0.1 cP.
>
>
>  Thank you
>>
>>
>
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Re: [gmx-users] residues in force fields

2015-02-01 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi

Suggestions at
http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/File_Formats/Coordinate_File

Mark

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 11:35 PM, shahab shariati  wrote:

> Dear Mark
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> I have a pdb file. If I want to cap N- and C-terminal with ACE and NME,
> respectively, what to do? Is there an specific software for that?
>
> Best wishes,
> Shahab
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Re: [gmx-users] Finding Surface tension between two interface

2015-02-01 Thread David van der Spoel

On 2015-02-01 00:56, Bishnu Acharya wrote:

Hi, Gromacs user,

I am doing the molecular dynamics simulation of NONANE and WATER. I am
struggling to find the surface tension I mean inter facial tension between
water and nonane. Could you please kindly provide some guide line for it.
Furthermore I am using box structure 0.0 0.0 20.0  is it compulsory to
create rectangular box? If so, could you please suggest me how to do it?

If you want water/nonane all you need to do is create a periodic box 
with an amount of water and an amount of nonane. These will phase 
separate and you will get two interfaces. Once in equilibrium you can 
extract the surface tension from g_energy. Not that you have two 
interface and have to divide the number by two, then check the units as 
well, IIRC it is in milli Newton / meter which is 0.1 cP.




Thank you




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