Re: [gmx-users] problem regarding "mdrun" and "g_hbond"

2007-03-15 Thread Erik Marklund
15 mar 2007 kl. 08.29 skrev sangeeta kundu: Dear all, I gave a simulation run of a protein using G43a1force field at 523K using Berendson's Temperature coupling for 10 ns, But three times it failed with the messege "segmentation fault" , without giving any other error messege. Pre

Re: [gmx-users] Use of g_dielectric

2007-03-15 Thread David van der Spoel
Georgios Patargias wrote: Thanks for your reply David. I am trying to understand how fitting but it is not very clear from the paper and g_dielectric -h. For example, why do I get a segmentation fault when I issue: g_dielectric -f dipcorr.xvg -epsRF 0 -ffn aexp -bfit 0 -eint 10 Read data set

[gmx-users] How to calculate the angle between side chains and helical axis

2007-03-15 Thread Afonso Duarte
Dear All, I have performed a MD simulation of a helical peptide in a solvent box. Now I am interested on determining the angle between the helix axis and the side chain of some residues (defined by the vector form Cb to the terminal heavy atom of each residue). I am trying to do so using g_bu

Re: [gmx-users] why gmx can not minimize the sio2?

2007-03-15 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
gmx can not minimize the sio2 because YOU did something wrong somewhere. (topology, infiniteness of the system, box, solvent) Tsjerk On 3/15/07, zzhwise1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all! recently,i configuratued a sio2 base! but when i minimized it in gmx,it was wrong! and show the follow

[gmx-users] Simulation in octanol as solvent

2007-03-15 Thread nur avneet
Dear All I have added octanolas solvent...but now my problem is that if i take the itp file as available on the gromacs site (which is in ffoplsaa) there are too many warnings related to bond types and if i get an itp generated through prodrg then it excludes the aliphatic hydrogens, while my g

Re: [gmx-users] Simulation in octanol as solvent

2007-03-15 Thread Erik Marklund
15 mar 2007 kl. 10.37 skrev nur avneet: Dear All I have added octanolas solvent...but now my problem is that if i take the itp file as available on the gromacs site (which is in ffoplsaa) there are too many warnings related to bond types and if i get an itp generated through prodrg then i

Re: [gmx-users] problem regarding "mdrun" and "g_hbond"

2007-03-15 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Sangeeta, It would be helpful to us if you gave more information than "I tried to run a simulation and it crashed". What kind of protein, any ligands/non-standard groups. Did you perform energy minimization, etc, etc, etc... What's in the .mdp file? Tsjerk On 3/15/07, Erik Marklund <[EMAIL P

[gmx-users] grompp problem

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Lenaerts
Hi all, To work with PTR in gromacs I added the residue information in ffG53a6.rtp, added the unknown atom names () to ffG53a6.atp and added the residue name to aminoacids.dat. this allowed me to make the topology file using pdb2gmx, create the box and fill it with water. Now I want to

Re: [gmx-users] grompp problem

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Abraham
> Hi all, > > > To work with PTR in gromacs I added the residue information in > ffG53a6.rtp, added the unknown atom names () to ffG53a6.atp and > added the residue name to aminoacids.dat. > this allowed me to make the topology file using pdb2gmx, create the > box and fill it with water. Now I w

Re: [gmx-users] problem regarding "mdrun" and "g_hbond"

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Abraham
> Dear all, > I gave a simulation run of a protein using G43a1force field at > 523K using Berendson's Temperature coupling for 10 ns, But three > times it failed with the messege "segmentation fault" , without > giving any other error messege. Previously I ran the simualtion of > the same

Re: [gmx-users] grompp problem

2007-03-15 Thread Olivier Perin
Hi Tom, setting rtp and atp files is not sufficient in order to make a complete topology in GMX. You have to added also some new bonds, angles, dihidrals etc... in ff*bon.itp ff*nb.itp. Check all of this. Look at all the files for one force field (ffG53a6.* in the top folder). They may contai

Re: [gmx-users] Simulation in octanol as solvent

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Abraham
> Dear All > I have added octanolas solvent...but now my problem is that if i take the > itp file as available on the gromacs site (which is in ffoplsaa) there > are too many warnings related to bond types and if i get an itp generated > through prodrg then it excludes the aliphatic hydrogens, whi

Re: [gmx-users] peptide-membrane simulations

2007-03-15 Thread maite lopez
Hi Justin : how Tsjerk said me yesterday i forgot to change the number of the atoms in the .gro file. Now i don't have this error when i run editconfig command. Thanks, Maite On 3/14/07, Justin Lemkul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fatal error: > Invalid line in peptide_dppc64_water.gro for a

Re: [gmx-users] grompp problem

2007-03-15 Thread Ran Friedman
Dir Tom, I have a version of ffG53a6.rtp with PTR. It worked for me in simulations, though I never rigorously checked the FF parameters, so no warranty. Contact me off list if you're interested. Ran. Tom Lenaerts wrote: > Hi all, > > > To work with PTR in gromacs I added the residue information

Re: [gmx-users] problem regarding "mdrun" and "g_hbond"

2007-03-15 Thread sangeeta kundu
Dear All, Thanks a lot to Mark,Tsjerk and Erik your promt reply. It is a globular protein containing approximately 70 residues having crysal structure, without any ligand,the simulation continued for 1.5 ns, & then gave the segmentation fault, My .mdp file is given below, I used SPC216 water and

Re: [gmx-users] grompp problem

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Lenaerts
Good problem description, but what was your command line, the location of these files you edited and the value of GMXRC? I'm surmising that gromacs isn't finding the .atp you changed. What is the GMXRC? Below a more complete description: I first copied the entire top folder of gromacs t

Re: [gmx-users] problem regarding "mdrun" and "g_hbond"

2007-03-15 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Sangeeta, I think the problem is a lone sodium ion which is shaken vigorously round by its private heat bath, at some point getting too intimate with one of the water molecules around. Never, never, NEVER give a handful of atoms, or a single atom, it's own heat bath! Put the sodium in with th

Re: [gmx-users] problem regarding "mdrun" and "g_hbond"

2007-03-15 Thread sangeeta kundu
Dear Tsjerk, My protein had -5.99 charge , so I added 6 NA+ atoms, not a single one. regards Sangeeta Tsjerk Wassenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Sangeeta, I think the problem is a lone sodium ion which is shaken vigorously round by its private heat bath, at some point getti

Re: [gmx-users] problem regarding "mdrun" and "g_hbond"

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Abraham
> tc-grps = Protein SOL NA+ > tau_t = 0.1 0.1 0.1 > ref_t = 523 523 523 This is a bad idea and we see it regularly on this mailing list. Coupling a single atom to a thermal bath is asking for trouble... what is the temperature of a single

Re: [gmx-users] problem regarding "mdrun" and "g_hbond"

2007-03-15 Thread Erik Marklund
15 mar 2007 kl. 14.30 skrev sangeeta kundu: Dear Tsjerk, My protein had -5.99 charge , so I added 6 NA+ atoms, not a single one. Nevertheless, 6 atoms is a very small tc-group. Large fluctuations in kinetic energy is expected for such a small collection of atoms, making the temper

Re: [gmx-users] problem regarding "mdrun" and "g_hbond"

2007-03-15 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Sangeeta, Mark, Well, one, six, that's about the same thing (the same order of magnitude at least). Maybe just over a handful, but all six of them will be jostled around quite a bit by coupling to their private jacuzzi! I think a warning is a good idea, but maybe 10 is even on the low side fo

Re: [gmx-users] problem regarding "mdrun" and "g_hbond"

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Abraham
> I think a warning is a good idea, but maybe 10 is even on the low side > for that. Since temperature is macroscopic, you'll need enough atoms > not to deviate too much from the target temperature. I have no > evidence on which I can make a proper suggestion... My bidding will be > 50! Going once

Re: [gmx-users] problem regarding "mdrun" and "g_hbond"

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Abraham
> I think a warning is a good idea, but maybe 10 is even on the low side > for that. Since temperature is macroscopic, you'll need enough atoms > not to deviate too much from the target temperature. I have no > evidence on which I can make a proper suggestion... My bidding will be > 50! Going once

[gmx-users] time life

2007-03-15 Thread sguidu
Hello: anybody know`s how to calculate the "mean life time" of solvent arround solute? and "mean life time" of hydrogen bond ? Thanks silvina. ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Pl

[gmx-users] Re:Information about .mdp file

2007-03-15 Thread sunita gupta
Hello All, Myself Sunita Gupta,I am undergoing a project right now,which is related to "Coarse Grain Simulation".I am using Gromacs for that, I've creatad .top and .gro file,But I am facing some problem in making .mdp file. Can I get any sample of .mdp file that can be used for coarse graining. An

Re: [gmx-users] Re:Information about .mdp file

2007-03-15 Thread Yang Ye
Hi, Related items could be parameters for vdw, electrostatic and timesteps. For Vdw, how much cut-off would you need? For electrostatic, what method would you use? Cut-off (then you need to specify again how much cut-off length) or PME (how much real space length). Timestep shall be derived b

Re: [gmx-users] grompp problem

2007-03-15 Thread Yang Ye
Tom Lenaerts wrote: Good problem description, but what was your command line, the location of these files you edited and the value of GMXRC? I'm surmising that gromacs isn't finding the .atp you changed. What is the GMXRC? Below a more complete description: I first copied the entire to

Re: [gmx-users] time life

2007-03-15 Thread Erik Marklund
g_hbond -ac 15 mar 2007 kl. 14.52 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello: anybody know`s how to calculate the "mean life time" of solvent arround solute? and "mean life time" of hydrogen bond ? Thanks silvina. ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@g

Re: [gmx-users] Removing PBC from Replica Exchange Trajectory

2007-03-15 Thread Robert Johnson
I made an index file that contained the middle portion of the DNA strand. I then used the -center option to center this middle portion in the box and then outputted the entire molecule. However, the molecule still appears broken. What is this -pbc mol option? That doesn't seem to be one of the ava

Re: [gmx-users] Removing PBC from Replica Exchange Trajectory

2007-03-15 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Robert, Maybe it's a bit nasty, but you may try the following, assuming that your ends stay a bit together: 1. Translate your system such that the last atom of chain A is centered in the _rectangular_ unitcell. 2. Generate a .tpr file from the translated system 3. Convert the .tpr to .pdb Gr

Re: [gmx-users] Removing PBC from Replica Exchange Trajectory

2007-03-15 Thread Yang Ye
Thanks for Tsjerk's input. Rob, please make sure that that portion of DNA is always binding together. Since you have a ssDNA, just center the center residue. mol was a non-existing option. It sounds meaningful =) Just use whole, please. Regards, Yang Ye Tsjerk Wassenaar wrote: Hi Robert, Ma

[gmx-users] interpretation life time

2007-03-15 Thread sguidu
Thank Erick My problem is actually of interpretation. I have done to simulation of two monomers of the acid pectic in water, 10ns. When I calculate the time of average life of the bridge between one O of a monomer with a H of another monomer, it he goes out for me, for example, 52ps. What it mean

Re: [gmx-users] Removing PBC from Replica Exchange Trajectory

2007-03-15 Thread Yang Ye
May not be a residue, just pick an atom in the center residue. Have a try and hope you succeed. Yang Ye Thanks for Tsjerk's input. Rob, please make sure that that portion of DNA is always binding together. Since you have a ssDNA, just center the center residue. mol was a non-existing option. It s

[gmx-users] interpretation life time-2

2007-03-15 Thread sguidu
Hello: I have another problem. With g_hbond -ins I inserted to the dimer that I am studying 20 water molecules to see the Hbond. Is result the same if I insert 20, 40 or 1000 water molecules, why what I ask?. Does program count the insertions always between the same acceptor-donor couple?. How is

[gmx-users] g_rms v. g_rmsdist

2007-03-15 Thread Gleb Solomentsev
Hello, I am trying to figure out what the difference between these two applications is. The calculation is of the RMSD for a protein unfolding trajectory and I get different results with g_rms and g_rmsdist. I have looked at the manual and all I can find is that: "g_rmsdist computes the root

Re: [gmx-users] Removing PBC from Replica Exchange Trajectory

2007-03-15 Thread Robert Johnson
Is there any way to remultiplex a REMD trajectory? If so, this chain of events should work: 1. Demultiplex the REMD trajectory (with demux.pl) to obtain a continuous trajectory 2. Use trjconv -pbc nojump on the demultiplexed trajectories 3. Remultiplexed the "nojumped" trajectories back I tried

re:Re: [gmx-users] grompp problem

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Lenaerts
>Not only in atp, but also in bon and nb. nb is a bit easy, only LJ >parameters. But for bon, you need to specify any bonded, angle, dihedral >interaction that CB and CR61 have in your molecule. The structure of these files is completely unclear to me. I also didn't find any explanation of the

re:Re: [gmx-users] grompp problem

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Lenaerts
>Not only in atp, but also in bon and nb. nb is a bit easy, only LJ >parameters. But for bon, you need to specify any bonded, angle, dihedral >interaction that CB and CR61 have in your molecule. The structure of these files is completely unclear to me. I also didn't find any explanation of the

Re: [gmx-users] g_rms v. g_rmsdist

2007-03-15 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Gleb, g_rmsdist calculates a matrix of interatomic distances, averages these and calculates the average deviation from the average. g_rms superimposes two structures (superimposes the averages) and calculates the average deviation over the pairs of equal atoms in the structures. Hope I am cle

Re: [gmx-users] grompp problem

2007-03-15 Thread David van der Spoel
Tom Lenaerts wrote: Not only in atp, but also in bon and nb. nb is a bit easy, only LJ parameters. But for bon, you need to specify any bonded, angle, dihedral interaction that CB and CR61 have in your molecule. The structure of these files is completely unclear to me. I also didn't find any

Re: [gmx-users] grompp problem

2007-03-15 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Tom, Now before anything else..., do you need a CB to be defined? Doesn't one of the atom types present suffice? There's tyrosine in most force field already, you know, and these 'CB' atoms are merely part of the ring. Tsjerk On 3/15/07, David van der Spoel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tom Lenae

[gmx-users] Writing Coordinates of Atoms Outside Primary Periodic Box

2007-03-15 Thread Robert Johnson
Hello everyone, As I was discussing in a previous thread, I'm having problems visualizing/analyzing an REMD trajectory of ssDNA. As I understand, most tools for unwrapping PBC (i.e. removing the jumps from one side of the box to the other) do so by detecting large displacements between successive

re:Re: [gmx-users] grompp problem

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Lenaerts
>Tom, > >Now before anything else..., do you need a CB to be defined? Doesn't >one of the atom types present suffice? There's tyrosine in most force >field already, you know, and these 'CB' atoms are merely part of the >ring. Indeed. If I just replace the CB and CR61 by C in the rtp file and add

re:Re: [gmx-users] grompp problem

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Abraham
> Indeed. If I just replace the CB and CR61 by C in the rtp file > and add the bondtypes using the G53a6bon.itp then PTR is defined as > follows Presumably you've checked some useful source that this carbon atom type is reasonable to use for a tyrosine ring. > WARNING 1 [file "sh2_pep.top", lin

Re: [gmx-users] Writing Coordinates of Atoms Outside Primary Periodic Box

2007-03-15 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Bob, This would give an intolerable decrease in performance, because of the neighbour searching thing. I had a routine which might be of help, but unfortunately somewhere in the process of "improvement" I broke it and didn't return to it again. Maybe I can have a look at it some moment these

Re: [gmx-users] interpretation life time

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Abraham
> Thank Erick > > My problem is actually of interpretation. I have done to simulation of two > monomers of the acid pectic in water, 10ns. When I calculate the time of > average life of the bridge between one O of a monomer with a H of another > monomer, it he goes out for me, for example, 52ps. >

Re: [gmx-users] performance question

2007-03-15 Thread David Mobley
If you're not planning on running parallel jobs I would go for the higher clock speed. If you're running parallel, well, I am not sure. On 3/13/07, Andrei Neamtu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, We are in the process of building a cluster on which GROMACS will be the main computational engine

[gmx-users] GROMOS vs. Amber

2007-03-15 Thread Michal Walczak
Hello everyone, Can anyone tell me or post me publication or link which contains information how GROMOS force field differs from Amber ff. regards, Michal W. ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/g

[gmx-users] g_mdmat question

2007-03-15 Thread SUSAN VARNUM
Dear gmx users, I have a question about g_mdmat, related to a question I posed earlier. I know a bit more now. When I run the command on a trajectory in pdb format, either using -b and -e to specify which string of frames to average over, or just leaving -b, -e unspecified, I get a contact ma

[gmx-users] coordination number of ion: rdf integration

2007-03-15 Thread spitaleri.andrea
Hi all, I am struggling with the rdf. I have 7 structural ions in my protein and I'd like to monitor the coordination number around them (ion - protein) during my MD. I have read papers about it and: http://www.gromacs.org/pipermail/gmx-users/2006-November/024911.html and http://www.gromacs.org/pip

[gmx-users] isotropic force constant?

2007-03-15 Thread Qiang Zhong
Dear users: I have a position restrain .mdp file need to set,I use 300K in which an isotropic force constant of 100kjmol-1A-1 is applied to all nonhydroggen protein atoms. In my pr.mdp file which parameter I should add? Thank you very much! _

Re: [gmx-users] isotropic force constant?

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Abraham
> Dear users: > I have a position restrain .mdp file need to set,I use 300K > in which an isotropic force constant of 100kjmol-1A-1 is applied to > all nonhydroggen protein atoms. > > In my pr.mdp file which parameter I should add? > Thank you very much! If you use pdb2gmx, it will ge

[gmx-users] Restarting a gromacs calcluation

2007-03-15 Thread Triguero, Luciano O
Dear users, How do I restart a gromacs simulation? Ciao, Luciano Dr. Luciano Triguero College of Art and Science Department of Physics and Chemistry Cox Science Building 1301 Memorial Drive, Room 146 P.O Box 249118 Coral Gables, FL 33124-0431 Cellular: 305-904-2419 Office: 305-284-3938 _

RE: [gmx-users] Restarting a gromacs calcluation

2007-03-15 Thread Dallas B. Warren
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[gmx-users] Salt concentration!

2007-03-15 Thread Qiang Zhong
Dear users: My protein is large,so I use genbox -shell 1.2 to add water, Then I genion -conc 0.15 -neutral, At last,In .top file I find 7703 water, but there are 183 Na+,170 cl-,I want to know whether ions is too more. Is this normal? Could somebody tell me?

Re: [gmx-users] Salt concentration!

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Abraham
> Dear users: > My protein is large,so I use genbox -shell 1.2 to add water, > Then I genion -conc 0.15 -neutral, At last,In .top file I find 7703 water, > but there are 183 Na+,170 cl-,I want to know whether ions is too more. > Is this normal? > Could somebody tell me? How about find

Re: [gmx-users] Salt concentration!

2007-03-15 Thread Ran Friedman
Hi, The concentration of pure water is 55.6M. So, 1 ion with a single charge per 556 molecules of water equals 0.1M. Ran. Mark Abraham wrote: >> Dear users: >> My protein is large,so I use genbox -shell 1.2 to add water, >> Then I genion -conc 0.15 -neutral, At last,In .top file I find 7703

Re: [gmx-users] coordination number of ion: rdf integration

2007-03-15 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Andrea, I have a program to look at the coordination number and other things for cations and oxygen ligands. Maybe that could help... If you want, I can send it to you. Best, Tsjerk On 3/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I am struggling with the rdf. I have 7 stru