Re: [gmx-users] RE: Gibbs Energy Calculation and charges

2013-10-30 Thread Michael Shirts
I likely won't have much time to look at it tonight, but you can see exactly what the option is doing to the topology. run gmxdump on the tpr. All of the stuff that couple-intramol does is in grompp, so the results will show up in the detailed listings of the interactions, and which ones have whi

Re: [gmx-users] RE: Gibbs Energy Calculation and charges

2013-10-29 Thread Michael Shirts
I think the grammar got a little garbled there, so I'm not sure quite what you are claiming. One important thing to remember; 1-4 interactions are treated as bonded interactions right now FOR COUPLE intramol (not for lambda dependence of the potential energy function), so whether couple-intramol i

Re: [gmx-users] lmc-stats

2013-10-28 Thread Michael Shirts
Not that many people have used this code, thus there are likely ways that it can be improved for better utility. I generally haven't tried to calculate free energy differences from the transition matrix, though it should give consistent results with the other methods. Best, ~~~~

Re: [gmx-users] Replica Exchange with Solute Tempering

2013-10-26 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, all- Rest essentially scales the solute-solvent interactions, but maintains the solute-solute interactions. This can be done solely with Hamiltonian replica exchange, which is in 4.6. It's a bit tricky, though. We plan on having something that does this automatically in 5.0 or 5.1, but it's

Re: [gmx-users] energy drift - comparison of double and single precision

2013-10-25 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, all- At this point, any fixes are going to be in the 5.0 version, where the integrators will be a bit different. If you upload your system files to redmine.gromacs.org (not just the .mdp), then I will make sure this gets tested there. On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Guillaume Chevrot wrot

Re: [gmx-users] a new GROMACS simulation tool

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Shirts
Is there a link to the documentation? It's a little difficult to know exactly what this supposed to be doing. Is it a GUI interface to gromacs? In general, it would be great to get these sort of extensions coordinated with the main gromacs development tree, since otherwise they would tend to get

Re: [gmx-users] energy drift - comparison of double and single precision

2013-10-11 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, Guillaume- No one can tell you if you did anything wrong if you didn't tell us what you did! There are literally thousands of combinations of options in running an NVE simulation, a substantial fraction of which are guaranteed not to conserve energy. If you post the files (inputs and relevan

Re: [gmx-users] question about OPLS-AA force field -required bond constraints

2013-10-10 Thread Michael Shirts
OPLS-AA was generally derived with Monte Carlo, which means that all bonds were exactly constrained. But read the papers! On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: > > > On 10/10/13 12:17 PM, Martin, Erik W wrote: >> >> >> Hi, I'm new to both Gromacs and OPLS. I have always used CH

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Problem running free energy simulations

2013-10-03 Thread Michael Shirts
Hmm. This really isn't quite enough information to go on. Can you file a redmine issue, and include the files used to generate the run that crashed (.mdp, .gro,. .top), as well as the files that show it failing (.log)? http://redmine.gromacs.org/ On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Jernej Zidar wro

Re: [gmx-users] Problem running free energy simulations

2013-10-02 Thread Michael Shirts
Sounds like the simulation is blowing up. How soon does it start crashing. Also, what configurations are you using to start your free energy simulations at each lambda? On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Jernej Zidar wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying to determine the free energy of solvation for a

Re: [gmx-users] "Illegal instruction" error from alchemical-gromacs.py

2013-09-26 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, Chris- The best place to file this issue is the SimTK pymbar page, rather than alchemistry.org, since it's a pymbar problem. We have collaborators that may have updated the pymbar.py recently. I'll try to get this stabilized in the very near future. Testing quickly, my best guess is that it'

Re: [gmx-users] segfault when running the alchemistry.org ethanol solvation free energy tutorial

2013-09-26 Thread Michael Shirts
ility outlined above. > > Thank you for your assitance Mark and Michael. > > Chris. > > -- original message -- > > Michael Shirts mrshirts at gmail.com > Fri Sep 27 00:41:17 CEST 2013 > Previous message: [gmx-users] segfault when running the alchemistry.org >

Re: [gmx-users] segfault when running the alchemistry.org ethanol solvation free energy tutorial

2013-09-26 Thread Michael Shirts
energy calculation pathways, the sc-r-power=48 pathway will now be phased out anyway by 5.1. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Michael Shirts wrote: > I thought I had just managed to solve the issue :) > > If you look at the soft core parameters, there are two types listed -- > one wit

Re: [gmx-users] segfault when running the alchemistry.org ethanol solvation free energy tutorial

2013-09-26 Thread Michael Shirts
I thought I had just managed to solve the issue :) If you look at the soft core parameters, there are two types listed -- one with sc-r-power = 48, and one with sc-r-power = 6. The sc-r-power are more stable with single precision calculations. I have changed the files on the website to make the

Re: [gmx-users] segfault when running the alchemistry.org ethanol solvation free energy tutorial

2013-09-26 Thread Michael Shirts
Just to be clear, is this the expanded ensemble version of the calculation? On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Mark Abraham wrote: > I found the -multi version of that tutorial a bit temperamental... > Michael Shirts suggested that double precision is more reliable for > expanded

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Need protein-ligand free energy calculation tutorial

2013-09-19 Thread Michael Shirts
There are some starter files here: http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Tutorials/GROMACS_USA_Workshop_and_Conference_2013/An_introduction_to_free_energy_calculations%3a_Michael_Shirts%2c_Session_2A Which can be used in conjunction with the Alchemistry.org instructions. But it needs to be update

Re: [gmx-users] A question about velocity rescaling thermostat and velocity verlet integrator

2013-08-29 Thread Michael Shirts
The only integrators with stochastic force components are sd and bd. vrescale has a small stochastic component, but that is for the target kinetic energy, and is not a random force acting on each particle. On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Ali Sinan Saglam wrote: > Hi, > > I was planning to use t

Re: [gmx-users] Long range Lennard Jones

2013-08-29 Thread Michael Shirts
IPS in CHARMM involves additional calculations beyond a simple homogeneous approximation -- roughly equivalent to PME for dispersion, though its a bit messier. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723858/ On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Justin Lemkul wrote: > > > On 8/29/13 1:18 AM, G

Re: [gmx-users] Re: NPT-REMD

2013-08-25 Thread Michael Shirts
Can you clarify - Do you mean that different replicas have different average pressures? WITHIN each replica, the +/- 2000 bar changing from step to step is very common for using an atomic virial like gromacs does. The AVERAGES of EACH replica should each be the average pressure they are set as (+

Re: [gmx-users] NPT-REMD

2013-08-25 Thread Michael Shirts
Pressure should fluctuate significantly. The estimator for the pressure that is generally used is very noisy. The question is, do the pressure averages over, say, 500 ps or 1 ns look about right? On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Mark Abraham wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 6:22 PM, rahul seth >

Re: [gmx-users] Early registration period ending for 2013 GROMACS USA Workshop and Conference

2013-08-20 Thread Michael Shirts
able to us. Thank you. > > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Michael Shirts < > michael.shi...@virginia.edu> wrote: > >> Dear GROMACS users- >> >> I'd like to remind you all about the 2013 GROMACS USA Workshop and >> Conference at the University of Virgini

[gmx-users] Early registration period ending for 2013 GROMACS USA Workshop and Conference

2013-08-19 Thread Michael Shirts
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Re: [gmx-users] LINCS Constraints - all-bonds or h-bonds?

2013-08-15 Thread Michael Shirts
I don't go beyond 2 fs with either all- bonds or h-bonds. Things like kinetic energy start being subtly off. H-bonds has less chance of failing with large numbers of constraints- less iteration required, especially if bond system cross parallelization boundaries. If your molecules are < 10 atom

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Unkwown Keyword HILLS

2013-08-14 Thread Michael Shirts
This is a plumed error, not a gromacs error. Gromacs never handles those keywords. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 14, 2013, at 1:40, Albert wrote: > Does anybody have any idea what's the problem? > > I use the tutorial example and I don't know why it doesn't work. > > THX > > > On 08/13/2013

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Unkwown Keyword HILLS

2013-08-14 Thread Michael Shirts
This is Sent from my iPhone On Aug 14, 2013, at 1:40, Albert wrote: > Does anybody have any idea what's the problem? > > I use the tutorial example and I don't know why it doesn't work. > > THX > > > On 08/13/2013 07:19 PM, Albert wrote: >> Dear: >> >> I am trying to run plumed with gromac

Re: [gmx-users] Hamiltonian replica exchange not working in 4.6

2013-08-06 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, Sanku- The way to invoke Hamiltonian replica exchange has changed to be a bit more flexible. We should go back and make sure that this legacy way is supported (I thought this invocation was supported, but apparently it isn't), but what you should be able to do to get it working quickly is inc

Re: [gmx-users] Unphysical conformations in decoupled free energy simulation

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, all- That particular redmine was in the case of couple-intramol NOT being specified. So it may be different. Can you upload samples files for this test case to redmine.gromacs.org with specific instructions? Please upload both the 'behaving correctly' and 'not behaving correctly' versions.

Re: [gmx-users] Re: restraint-lambdas for position restraints in hamiltonian exchange

2013-08-03 Thread Michael Shirts
that in the position restraint case (not COM-pulling), where > the reference positions are determined by the starting structure instead of > a B-state topology, the reference positions won't be swapped ? > > > 2013/8/3 Michael Shirts-2 [via GROMACS] < > ml-node+s5086n50

Re: [gmx-users] restraint-lambdas for position restraints in hamiltonian exchange

2013-08-03 Thread Michael Shirts
Short answer is anything that has a B state parameter can be included in in Hamiltonian exchange. If it's pull code or explicit restraints, it's controlled by restraint lambda. > I went through the manual and couldn't find any definite answers to the > following questions. > > First, I wonder if

Re: [gmx-users] Expanded ensemble simulation died with fatal error: Something wrong in choosing new lambda state with a Gibbs move

2013-07-31 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi Dejun- The basic problem is that for this particular configuration, the current state is the only state with nonzero weight. Note that the state with the second highest weight has weight 10^-7. When it tries to compare weights in single precision, it has a numerical overflow and fails. A few

[gmx-users] Reminder about US GROMACS workshop + soliciting presenters for talks and tutorials

2013-07-26 Thread Michael Shirts
p and Conference Steering Committee Michael Shirts (chair) Angel Garcia Berk Hess Yu-Shan Lin Erik Lindahl Peter Kasson Original announcement: ~~~ We are pleased to announce the 2013 GROMACS USA Workshop and Conference at the University of Virgin

[gmx-users] Re: Question on Hessian and forces not being preserved on restart with Hessian calculation?

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Shirts
Problem partly addressed. If I run normal modes in -nt 1, then I get the same force as after the minimization. I'll file a redmine. On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Michael Shirts wrote: > To follow up -- if I try to minimize again using -t, I get the same > low forces as in the m

[gmx-users] Re: Question on Hessian and forces not being preserved on restart with Hessian calculation?

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Shirts
To follow up -- if I try to minimize again using -t, I get the same low forces as in the minimization in the previous step. So it appears to be something with what do_nm is doing, not with errors in the output structure. On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Michael Shirts wrote: > When I minimiz

[gmx-users] Question on Hessian and forces not being preserved on restart with Hessian calculation?

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Shirts
When I minimize a structure, I can get down to the force max being <0.01 Low-Memory BFGS Minimizer converged to Fmax < 0.01 in 6839 steps Potential Energy = -5.12340607768673e+03 Maximum force = 6.68907856457542e-03 on atom 3029 Norm of force = 2.19978176343026e-03 kJ/nm. However, whe

Re: [gmx-users] segfault with an otherwise stable system when I turn on FEP (complete decoupling)

2013-07-18 Thread Michael Shirts
Chris, can you post a redmine on this so I can look at the files? Also, does it crash immediately, or after a while? On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Christopher Neale wrote: > Dear Users: > > I have a system with water and a drug (54 total atoms; 27 heavy atoms). The > system is stable when I

Re: [gmx-users] Re: gmx 4.6.1, Expanded ensemble: weird balancing factors

2013-07-17 Thread Michael Shirts
dG values although > it's not optimal for data collection as you pointed out. I wonder if it's a > trivial fix that might have been done to add semiiso to MTTK? > > Thanks again for your help! > > > 2013/7/17 Michael Shirts > >> > It seems to have something t

Re: [gmx-users] Re: gmx 4.6.1, Expanded ensemble: weird balancing factors

2013-07-17 Thread Michael Shirts
> It seems to have something to do with the integrator/pressure-coupling. that is what I expected based on some preliminary testing earlier. When > I ran the tutorial on > http://www.alchemistry.org/wiki/GROMACS_4.6_example:_Ethanol_solvation_with_expanded_ensemble, > everything seems fine OK go

Re: [gmx-users] Re: window exchange umbrella sampling

2013-07-17 Thread Michael Shirts
4.5.7 does not support Hamiltonian exchange. It says all properties are the same, because all the temperatures and pressures are the same -- it won't switch the umbrellas. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Parisa wrote: > Hi Michael, > > I think that this is an issue with the gromacs version I am

Re: [gmx-users] Re: window exchange umbrella sampling

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Shirts
Ah, this is a force field issue -- urey-bradley terms are not supported free energy calculations. However, since only restraints are changing, this warning doesn't really need to be there. It would be relatively simple to put in a check to allow this to work, but it might take a week or two to get

Re: [gmx-users] Re: gmx 4.6.1, Expanded ensemble: weird balancing factors

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Shirts
t; general? (Maybe not in this particular case or in the case of the tutorial > you just posted.) I wonder if we need as many intermediate lambdas as in > the case of replica exchange since the weights compensate the difference in > energy. > > Thanks, > Dejun > > >

Re: [gmx-users] window exchange umbrella sampling

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Shirts
You need to have different pull parameters at the end states. Right now, pull-kB1 is not defined in your code, so there is nothing to interpolate to: it assume pull-kB1 = pull-k1. Longer scale -- one would want to define reference distances that change with lambda within the same simulation, but l

Re: [gmx-users] Re: gmx 4.6.1, Expanded ensemble: weird balancing factors

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, all- This not a problem with W-L, but is instead something that is wrong with a particular combination of mdp options that are not working for expanded ensemble simulations. W-L can equilibrate to incorrect distributions because it decreases the weights too fast (more on that later), but that

Re: [gmx-users] Larger number of decimal places for coordinates with velocities

2013-07-05 Thread Michael Shirts
Have you checked out the -ndec option for trjconv? If you have a high precision format (.trr, or .xtc if they are stored with sufficient precision) you can print out a .gro file (that gromacs can read) with higher precision. Gromacs can read .gro files with increased precisions in the coordinates

Re: [gmx-users] a question concerning on entropy

2013-07-04 Thread Michael Shirts
No. This is a statistical mechanical issue, not a GROMACS issue. For interacting systems, entropy is a quantity describing the system as a whole, and cannot be defined for different parts of the system, at least not in any way such that the individual components can be added together. I'm also n

Re: [gmx-users] Re: 1-4 interactions free energy calculations

2013-06-25 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, Sonia- Gromacs 4.6.2 (some bug fixes vs 4.6.1) with the example files you point out from Alchemistry.org should work well for expanded ensemble. David Mobley and I have been validating expanded ensemble and replica exchange, and the files posted there now are stable for all sizes of systems,

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Enthalpy Confusion

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Shirts
> or should i be doing < U+*ref_p > = ? More specifically, + *ref_p = H isn't really meaningful thing. I mean, you can define something such that = H, but that's not really thermodynamics. > example system gives = -1168 kJ/mol and i find = -725 kJ/mol either Interesting. What material at

[gmx-users] 2013 GROMACS USA Workshop and Conference

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Shirts
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Re: [gmx-users] Re: Enthalpy Confusion

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Shirts
If you are computing enthaply in the NPT ensemble, P is constant, and is the applied pressure. The "pressure" quantity calculated from the KE and the virial is not the pressure. It is a quantity that when averaged over time is equal the pressure. Only the average is meaningful macroscopically.

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Free Energy Calculations in Gromacs

2013-06-10 Thread Michael Shirts
An important final point is that you can always see EXACTLY what grompp is putting into the B state by running gmxdump on the resulting tpr. It's a LOT of information, but all in text all the interactions are listed explicitly there. On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: > > > On

Re: [gmx-users] Difference between the electrostatic treatments PME/Cut-offs and Reaction Field

2013-06-05 Thread Michael Shirts
> It should also be noted (and obvious now that I actually look into it) that > using dispersion correction results in both the latent heat of vapourisation > and density of the alkanes being over estimated (for both Cut-off and > Reaction Field, and by the same amount). That may not be quite t

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Nose-Hover chains for membrane protein simulation

2013-06-02 Thread Michael Shirts
assuming that I'd like to sample > all temperature acceptable conformations on the 100 ns trajectory. > > But as I understood the chain regime does not compatible with the membrane > protein simulation due to the artifacts arising with MTTK batostat. > > James > > 2013

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Nose-Hover chains for membrane protein simulation

2013-06-01 Thread Michael Shirts
I can't think of any instance where nose-hoover chains provides an advantage over nose-hoover in a large system -- all the demonstrations of superiority are in model systems that are not particularly chaotic. As the system gets more chaotic, it matters less. I would go with md, nose-hoover (w/o c

Re: [gmx-users] issue in replica exchange

2013-05-03 Thread Michael Shirts
Summarizing! On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:31 AM, XAvier Periole wrote: > > Are confirming that you reproduce the problem with gmx-4.6.1 or simply > summarizing in case we lose track :)) > > On May 2, 2013, at 23:31, Michael Shirts wrote: > >> So to summarize -- the pr

Re: [gmx-users] issue in replica exchange

2013-05-02 Thread Michael Shirts
I > turned it off during compilation … > > You could try to run on particle decomposition to see if you get a problem … > it should one quite quick. > > On May 2, 2013, at 2:36 PM, Michael Shirts wrote: > >> Both. So if 4.6.1 doesn't work, I want to know so we

Re: [gmx-users] issue in replica exchange

2013-05-02 Thread Michael Shirts
l try gmx-4.6.1 > > On May 2, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Michael Shirts wrote: > >> Quick check here -- is 4.6 behaving correctly? I actually spent some >> time working on REMD in 4.6, and it seems to be behaving correctly in >> my hands with temperature and pressure cont

Re: [gmx-users] issue in replica exchange

2013-05-02 Thread Michael Shirts
Quick check here -- is 4.6 behaving correctly? I actually spent some time working on REMD in 4.6, and it seems to be behaving correctly in my hands with temperature and pressure control. Thanks for any additional info on this! On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Mark Abraham wrote: > On Thu, May 2

Re: [gmx-users] Free Energy Calculations in Gromacs

2013-04-20 Thread Michael Shirts
You have to change atom types. For example: [ atomtypes ] ;name bond_typemasscharge ptype sigma epsilon h1h1 0. 0. A 2.47135e-01 6.56888e-02 h1_pert h1 0. 0. A 2.47135e-01 3.56888e-02 ; perturbed The

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Hamiltonian replica exchange umbrella sampling with gmx 4.6

2013-04-02 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, Dejun- Right now, the vector of lambda parameters is simply vdw, coul, bonded, restraint, temperature. You can't have, say, 2 different coul vectors or two different restraint vectors for different restraints. But you can change any of these components. You define the vector manually by wri

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Hamiltonian replica exchange umbrella sampling with gmx 4.6

2013-03-08 Thread Michael Shirts
ly clear now. Will try to play around with this later > today. > > Best, > Joakim > > >> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 08:55:31 -0500 >> From: Michael Shirts >> Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Hamiltonian replica exchange umbrella >> sampling with gmx 4.6 >> T

Re: [gmx-users] Hamiltonian replica exchange umbrella sampling with gmx 4.6

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, Joakim- Hamiltonian exchange only should work if there is a lambda coupling parameter that defines the potential at each state. You need to define your pulling potential so that the coupling-lambda parameter can be used to define the different pulling location centers along your trajectory.

Re: [gmx-users] CMAP and Free Energy

2013-02-27 Thread Michael Shirts
There is no theoretical reason to exclude it. The CMAP code is routed differently in the logic, and was put in at the same time the free energy code was, so it's just software engineering issues. This is a good candidate for inclusion in 5.0 if enough people request. On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:04

Re: [gmx-users] g_bar for larger systems (protein-protein interaction)

2013-02-25 Thread Michael Shirts
My personal opinion is that for large protein-protein calculations, the free energy should be computed through potential of mean force calculations, NOT alchemical methods, using the endpoints (properly corrected) to determine the free energy of association. There are a number of tutorials and exa

Re: [gmx-users] The time for the temperature and pressure coupling

2013-02-07 Thread Michael Shirts
Ah, now perhaps I see that I misread the question - it could have been phrased more clearly. If Erik understood it correctly, then the answer to the question is: It depends on the integrator. The simulation is not constrained to a particular temperature or pressure - rather, the dynamics are modi

Re: [gmx-users] The time for the temperature and pressure coupling

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Shirts
The coordinates and velocities that are printed (and that are used to calculate the properties like energy, virial, etc) are always consistent with the constraints. The exact order of how things are done often depends on the integrator. For example, velocity scaling can be done before or after co

Re: [gmx-users] Expanded Ensemble and Gromacs 4.6

2013-02-05 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, Joakim- Expanded ensemble is still a bit experimental. I don't immediately see any problem that jump right out, but if you go to http://redmine.gromacs.org/ and file a bug report, including giving example files that cause the problem, I can take a look at it. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:00 AM,

Re: [gmx-users] meta-dynamics in gromacs-4.6

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Shirts
I assume PLUMED will be implemented for Gromacs 4.6, as many PLUMED developers use Gromacs. Perhaps any PLUMED lurkers on the list can speak up. . . . On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Mark Abraham wrote: > The GROMACS team has no plans for that. The usual problem here is that > everybody would l

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Re: Is vacuum simulation NVT?

2012-12-16 Thread Michael Shirts
> Could you tell me is there any difference of different Tau_t ussage ( > inverse friction in case of Stochastic dynamics) for simulation of > water-soluble as well as membrane-proteins ? In the first case I'm > using tau_t 2ps that is lower than internal water friction. In the > second case one pa

Re: [gmx-users] Is vacuum simulation NVT?

2012-12-11 Thread Michael Shirts
> In the absence of PBC, you simply have an infinite system. In a loose > sense, that may be NVT, but V is infinite, so whether or not you can > consider that to be constant or not is theoretical math above what I know :) A real molecule in vacuum is usually NVE -- it is not coupled to the enviro

Re: [gmx-users] Question about conserved energy in MTTK

2012-11-28 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, all- I would recommend using Parrinellio-Rahman + Nose-Hoover md + at least until 4.6. A random-walk drift in the conserved energy is actually what MTTK gives -- it's not as conserved as, say, energy conservation, it just has an expectation value of zero drift over time, which means that the

Re: [gmx-users] Re: pressure_coupling

2012-11-22 Thread Michael Shirts
It's in review with JCTC right now. On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:19 PM, ABEL Stephane 175950 wrote: > Hello, > > This is a very nice and interesting work, Michael. Thank you for the efforts > you made in writing this paper. I hope you will publish it. > > Best > > Stephane > > > ___

Re: [gmx-users] pressure_coupling

2012-11-22 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, all- There are some issues with MTTK + constraints that are being worked out for 4.6. The good thing is, I have developed some sensitive tests of the correct volume distribution (see http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0910) and the errors in PR are very, very small. I would recommend using md + PR for

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Fast exchanges for REMD

2012-09-26 Thread Michael Shirts
> However, the time value (4 in this example) is limited to 6 digits. Sounds like this should be increased? There's a pending change to replica exchange, so this could be added to 4.6 without disrupting the release timing. On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Andreas Zink wrote: > Dear all, > > I

[gmx-users] Experiences with Gromacs scaling on US supercomputer centers?

2012-09-26 Thread Michael Shirts
up tweaks, but let's start with 4.5 scaling info! Best, Michael Shirts Assistant Professor Department of Chemical Engineering University of Virginia michael.shi...@virginia.edu (434)-243-1821 -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [gmx-users] Re: v-rescale

2012-09-20 Thread Michael Shirts
I've done some extensive testing (paper on testing method in the works) and vrescale gives a very accurate ensemble very well for NVT. Parrinello-Rahman and MTTK are the only algorithms that are correct for NPT. Berendsen barostat is not. Note that there is a bug with vrescale + md-vv + that is f

Re: [gmx-users] BAR / g_bar problems

2012-08-24 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, David- Perhaps we can work with you to compare the internal g_bar implementation with our external BAR and MBAR implementation run from the .dhdl.xvg data output in 4.6. It would probably be easier to run these calculations after the optimization updates are added in the next few days(?), but

Re: [gmx-users] When to use Dispersion Correction for Lipid Bilayers

2012-08-19 Thread Michael Shirts
Short answer -- use a dispersion correction if the force field was parameterized to include one. Make sure you use the cutoff that the lipid was parameterized for as well. Long answer -- neither on nor off is correct for a lipid bilayer. A dispersion corrections corrects for the fact that you ar

Re: [gmx-users] lincs with mttk

2012-07-27 Thread Michael Shirts
Good question. Short answer, no -- LINCS doesn't play well with a velocity verlet based pressure control algorithm. Long answer: MTTK has ended up not being robust because you need to solve a self consistent set of equations every timestep using the pressure estimator, which is extremely noisy, s

Re: [gmx-users] BAR gives different result than TI

2012-07-07 Thread Michael Shirts
The implementation of BAR in gromacs is pretty hard for me to follow because of how everything is stored noncompactly in the histogram. In 4.6, both can be computed from the same dhdl.xvg file, so it might be easier to track down possible bugs. On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:24 PM, David van der Spoel

Re: [gmx-users] What does --enable-fahcore mean?

2012-06-26 Thread Michael Shirts
It only matters for running on Folding@Home. For other users of gromacs, it doesn't do anything. On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Bao Kai wrote: > Hi, all, > > I am wondering what the --enable-fahcore option of configure means.  I > got the explanation from configure --help of "create a library

Re: [gmx-users] Configurational bias Monte Carlo

2012-06-01 Thread Michael Shirts
There's a fair amount of interest for more general support for Monte Carlo methods in GROMACS 5.0. However, there is no any current support for configuration bias Monte Carlo (or any other kind of MC) currently in the code. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Benjamin Haley wrote: > Hello, > >   I

Re: [gmx-users] REMD question

2012-05-28 Thread Michael Shirts
Gromacs already supports replica exchange -- what particularly are you implementing? Equilibration of pressure is always a good idea -- even if you are running NVT simulations, you want to get them to be at the equilibrium volume for your system and temperature choice, which will require equilibra

Re: [gmx-users] poor performance in Hemiltonian Replica Exchange

2012-05-10 Thread Michael Shirts
4.6 will include Hamiltonian replia exchange functionality built into the MPI version. Currently the description of the error is very vague -- if you can write up what exactly the numbers are, and what they should be, with files that exactly replicate the error, then I can take a look. But unless

Re: [gmx-users] BUG: Free energy calculation

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Shirts
Sabine, thanks for filing it in redmine! Having a record helps a lot. Can you also attach all your input files to the redmine filing? It can only really be debugged if the input files you used are included. Best, Michael On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: > > > Sabine Rei

Re: [gmx-users] BUG: Free energy calculation

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, Sabine- If you can go to http://redmine.gromacs.org/projects/gromacs/issues and file a bug report (including attaching files), I can look at it. If that's ends up not working well, you can send me the files off of the list, but it's usually better to have things in the redmine system so proble

Re: [gmx-users] Exchange interval in REMD

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Shirts
> It also depends whether or not you use constant pressure, in which case it > makes sense to increase the time to long enough to let the volume relax. > I still do not understand why people do NVT REMD, because it makes all but > one replica have a pressure that is not the ambient pressure. If al

Re: [gmx-users] amber99sb in GROMACS vs amber99sb in AMBER

2011-11-21 Thread Michael Shirts
> Is anyone aware of any benchmark analysis about the implementation of the > amber99sb force field (or any of its variants: 99sb-ildn, 99sb-nmr) in > GROMACS and AMBER. I am interested to know in what extend the energies > correlate and if the results agree with experimental data. Whether the res

Re: [gmx-users] How DispCorr influsnces pressure

2011-11-18 Thread Michael Shirts
> Dispcorr is only for homogeneous liquids. It should not be used for > membranes. More precisely -- the dispersion correction is an analytical correction to both the pressure and energy that is rigorously correct in the limit of the radial distribution function g(r)=1 outside the van der Waals cu

Re: [gmx-users] FEP

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Shirts
> So BAR is only > referring to the mathematical code used to calculate the overall free > energy for the FEP, correct? Yes. The information required is the same, with the exception that exponential averaging requires energy differences from only one state, whereas BAR requires energy differences

Re: [gmx-users] FEP

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Shirts
FEP is a poorly defined term. It can either mean 1) making small changes 'alchemical' changes in the molecules and computing the free energies by any method (BAR, TI, etc), or 2) it can mean specifically computing the free energies by exponentially averaging the potential energy differences. Basi

Re: [gmx-users] Question about Justin's Free Energy Tutorial

2011-10-07 Thread Michael Shirts
I don't think this is a question about new free energy code -- I think this is asking about the fact if you can do a free energy calculation by specifying the A and B variables in the topology, instead of using the MDP coupl-moltype arguments. This is actually the way free energy calculations were

Re: [gmx-users] Recommended parameters for NVE simulation of SPCE water

2011-08-17 Thread Michael Shirts
veloping suggested PME parameters > right now for highly quantitative work, but it's not quite ready yet. > > > > Michael Shirts > Assistant Professor > Department of Chemical Engineering > University of Virginia > michael.shi...@virginia.edu > (

Re: [gmx-users] Hamiltonian replica exchange?

2011-08-16 Thread Michael Shirts
Hamiltonian replica exchange is planned for 4.6, and is being beta tested by some users. On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Sanku M wrote: > Hi, >    I was wondering whether hamiltonian replica exchange simulation has been > implemented in latest version of  gromacs . Or, is there any other way of

Re: [gmx-users] Recommended parameters for NVE simulation of SPCE water

2011-08-10 Thread Michael Shirts
= 1.1 This should work quite well -- you might get some drift after 1-2 ns, but not much. I'm working on developing suggested PME parameters right now for highly quantitative work, but it's not quite ready yet. Michael Shirts Assistant Professor De

Re: [gmx-users] autocorrelation time of dVpot/dlambda?

2011-03-11 Thread Michael Shirts
> I am doing free energy calculation in Gromacs and want to get an error > estimate of my results. Is it possible to compute the autocorrelation time > of dVpot/dlambda in Gromacs using a certain length of trajectory such as 10 > ns? Thanks a lot The amount of simulation time required to compute t

Re: [gmx-users] Possible free energy bug?

2011-03-10 Thread Michael Shirts
Hi, all- Have you tried running constraints = hbonds? That might eliminate some of the constraint issues. Much less likely for LINCS to break or have DD issues if only the hbonds are constrained. 2 fs is not that big a deal for the heteroatom bonds. Best, Michael On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:04

Re: [gmx-users] free energy

2011-02-15 Thread Michael Shirts
One other thing I would point out is that the solvation free energy is dependent on concentration. you will get a different result with 4 polymer chains vs 3 vs 3, etc. Make sure you understand the dependence. Also, the free energy will depend on the polymer chain length. Polymer and finite con

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Secondary structure loss in implicit solvent simulations

2011-01-25 Thread Michael Shirts
OK, that is what I was trying to figure out -- is the problem reproducible on both GPU and CPU. Now, you havent answered the direct question, if the energies are the same for at least the first 5 steps are so -- without that knowledge, then here might be different errors occurring in GPU vs CPU.

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Secondary structure loss in implicit solvent simulations

2011-01-24 Thread Michael Shirts
> Do you get the same effects if you run a "normal" simulation on CPU and not > GPU?  That information would be critical for properly diagnosing what's > going on. If it's not GPU-specific, in all likelihood whatever you're doing > is incorrect somewhere along the way. Folllowing up on this -- if

Re: [gmx-users] Secondary structure loss in implicit solvent simulations

2011-01-17 Thread Michael Shirts
A few questions: 1) What force field are you using? 2) do you get the same answers with and without GPU acceleration? 3) How long does it take for secondary structure to disappear? 100's of ps? 10's of ns? On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:45 AM, K. Singhal wrote: > Hi > > I have a question regarding

Re: [gmx-users] What does "Conserved-En." stands for

2010-11-29 Thread Michael Shirts
For integration schemes like Nose-Hoover that are not NVE but have some other quantity that is conserved, then "Conserved-En. provides the value of this conserved quantity. Michael Shirts Assistant Professor Department of Chemical Engineering University of Virginia michae

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