[gmx-users] permittivity value

2012-09-17 Thread Bala subramanian
Friends, I am interested in setting the permittivity of the external surface. With the previous posting in the forum, i am able understand the meaning of the epsilon_surface parameter. I would like to know if someone could suggest me some articles that address the role of this parameter. Thanks, B

Re: [gmx-users] periodicity in msd calculation

2012-09-01 Thread Bala subramanian
starting point as the reference and calculate the msd of each succeeding points with respect to the starting. Thanks Bala On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: > > > On 8/22/12 12:12 PM, Bala subramanian wrote: >> >> Hi justin, >> Thanks for the suggesti

Re: [gmx-users] water layer with g_select

2012-08-29 Thread Bala subramanian
lt;=0.5 thanks On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Mark Abraham wrote: > On 29/08/2012 7:43 PM, Bala subramanian wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I read the examples. I find that one example shows the usage of rdist >> keyword. But i am not getting the right syntax to use it. I tried

Re: [gmx-users] water layer with g_select

2012-08-29 Thread Bala subramanian
-select 'resname SOL and within (rdist >= 0.25 and rdist <= 0.5) of group "Protein"' -select 'resname SOL and within {0.25 to 0.5} of group "Protein"' On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Mark Abraham wrote: > On 29/08/2012 1:37 AM, Bala subramanian w

[gmx-users] water layer with g_select

2012-08-28 Thread Bala subramanian
Friends, I read the documentation of g_select and previous questions, but I could nt find how to extract the index of water layer around the protein. While i understand that i can use 'within' keyword to get water layer around protein, my need is slightly different in a sense that i have specify a

Re: [gmx-users] periodicity in msd calculation

2012-08-22 Thread Bala subramanian
, Justin Lemkul wrote: > > > On 8/21/12 10:01 AM, Bala subramanian wrote: >> >> Friends, >> I have calculate the mean sq. displacement of water molecules in the first >> hydration shell around the protein (distance of .25nm). I want to write >> the >&

[gmx-users] periodicity in msd calculation

2012-08-21 Thread Bala subramanian
Friends, I have calculate the mean sq. displacement of water molecules in the first hydration shell around the protein (distance of .25nm). I want to write the code but i dnt know how to manipulate the coordinates to account for the pbc. Any guidance from anyone would be a great help. Thanks in ad

[gmx-users] extending simulation

2012-07-28 Thread Bala subramanian
Friends, I have a completed simulation for 30ns (done with gro. 4.5.4), Now I want to extend the simulation for another 30ns. In gromacs page (Ext. simulations), I found the following procedure to extend the simulations tpbconv -s previous.tpr -extend timetoextendby -o next.tpr mdrun -s next.tpr

[gmx-users] hydration layers around protein

2012-05-29 Thread Bala subramanian
Friends, I read in many articles explaining the behaviour of water in the first (or second etc) hydration layers around a protein. I am curious to know if there is any way to obtain/guess the thickness of this layer. How does one defines the thickness ? Thanks, Bala -- C. Balasubramanian -- gmx

Re: [gmx-users] How to read in netcdf with GROMACS?‏

2012-05-26 Thread Bala subramanian
Hi, Read the error information carefully. Probably you are trying to read a amber trajectory. Try installing vmd and set the VMD_PLUGIN_PATH variable to the plugin directory inside vmd installation. Gromacs can then read the trajectory using the vmd plugin. On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 6:42 PM, a a wr

[gmx-users] doubts on gen-pairs

2012-05-14 Thread Bala subramanian
Dear gmx-users, I have some doubts on the manual pages. Kindly help to understand the same. Section 5.7.1 Page 129 1) gen-pairs: Setting ‘yes’ generates 1-4 parameters that are not present in the pair list from normal Lennard-Jones parameters using fudgeLJ. Is there any way that I can see/write

[gmx-users] writing ff parameters as a text file

2012-04-23 Thread Bala subramanian
Friends, I have created the top (attached) file for a tripeptide using pdb2gmx tool of gromacs. However in the top file, i dnt see the pdb2gmx writing the ff parameters. I guess that the ff parameters are read directly from the ff.itp given in the given as #include "amber03.ff/forcefield.itp". Is

[gmx-users] Schlitters entropy calculation

2011-05-27 Thread Bala subramanian
Friends, I am a newbie to gromacs, trying to calculate the Schlitters entropy calculation using the following commands. g_covar -f mytraj.xtc -s structure.pdb -n index.ndx -b 0 -e 4000 -mwa -ref g_anaeig -entropy -temp 300 When i used the above commands, i get the Schlitter entropy value for