[gmx-users] g_select -select

2012-02-15 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, I am trying to make an dynamic index file of the hydration shell of my protein (hopefully using it with other gromacs tools). I am considering up to 10A from protein as the distance needed for my selection. I am using g_select with the following format: g_select -f traj.xtc -s traj.tpr -on

[gmx-users] g_spatial index file

2012-02-15 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hi, I used g_select to choose the hydration shell molecules of my protein from a trajectory of 15ns saved every 10ps (1500 frames). Now I want to feed the generated index file into g_spatial to calculate the SDF of solvent around my protein. However, when I feed this into the g_spatial, it lists

Re: [gmx-users] rotational diffusion for non-globular proteins

2012-02-07 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, My take on g_rotacf is that calculates the correlation times for a globular proteins that basically the moments of inertia can be assumed to be the same in all directions. Then, a single diffusion constant can be calculated for the whole protein. What if your protein is for instance a

Re: [gmx-users] editconf

2010-10-18 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, I am trying to rotate my protein in my simulation box (solvent molecules are there as well). I issue the following command: editconf_d_mpi -f AFPIII_Ih0001_54_26_em.gro -n protein.ndx -rotate 15 180 0 -o AFPIII_Ih0001_54_26_rotated.gro -box 5.40022 6.23564 20.59328 I select my group

[gmx-users] do_dssp fatal error

2010-10-06 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
but it clearly points to input. All the best Roman On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Dear Roman, do_dssp does analysis on secondary structure of proteins. It is written on online blogs that to get the correct results, you should select alpha carbons, option 3. However

Re: [gmx-users] do_dssp fatal error

2010-10-06 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Dear Justin, Thanks a lot. Your comment was very instructive. So, I use Mainchain (group 5) for future. Paymon On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 12:41 -0400, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Hello, To investigate the secondary structure I issued the do_dssp command as follows

Re: [gmx-users] make_ndx for do_dssp

2010-10-06 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, I want to check the secondary structure of protein at particular residues. Since dssp needs all main chain atoms, does the following command at the make_ndx prompt makes the correct index file? 5 | r 1 | r 10-11 |r 14-17 | r 20-21 | r 26-32 | r 42 | r 45 (Main chain atom of particular

Re: [gmx-users] make_ndx for do_dssp

2010-10-06 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Hello, I want to check the secondary structure of protein at particular residues. Since dssp needs all main chain atoms, does the following command at the make_ndx prompt makes the correct index file? You can answer that yourself by looking at the resulting index

Re: [gmx-users] make_ndx for do_dssp

2010-10-06 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
suggestions on how we can increase the resolution of dssp plot and enlarging the axis of residues? By the way, what would the option -nice do here? Paymon On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 15:29 -0400, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Justin, I produced the index file based on your

[gmx-users] g_densmap time-position-density output

2010-10-05 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, Can g_densmap produce 2D plots that one axis is the position in box, and the other is time? In other words, evolution of box content density with time on either axes of the box? Regards, Paymon -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org

Re: [gmx-users] Re: rotational correlation function

2010-09-24 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
, Paymon On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 20:40 +0200, David van der Spoel wrote: On 2010-09-23 20.38, Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Great tips and advices. I appreciate your attention. But, what would the g_rms -fit rot+trans do? compute the rmsd. something different. I said trjconv. Paymon

Re: [gmx-users] Re: rotational correlation function

2010-09-23 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
wrote: On 2010-09-23 01.27, Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Dear Dr. Chaban, I meant the N-H bond vectors of protein backbone for calculation of rotational time correlation function to calculate the rotational diffusion constant of my protein. I need a protocol which walks me step by step through

Re: [gmx-users] Re: rotational correlation function

2010-09-23 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Great tips and advices. I appreciate your attention. But, what would the g_rms -fit rot+trans do? Paymon On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 20:07 +0200, David van der Spoel wrote: On 2010-09-23 18.14, Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Dear Dr. van der Spoel, Thanks a lot for your clarification. But some

Re: [gmx-users] Re: rotational correlation function

2010-09-22 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
, 2010-09-22 at 19:03 -0400, Vitaly Chaban wrote: Message: 2 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:07:27 -0600 From: Paymon Pirzadeh ppirz...@ucalgary.ca Subject: [gmx-users] rotational correlation function To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Message-ID: 1285178847.11669.66.ca...@paymon-desktop Content-Type

[gmx-users] g_order question

2010-08-31 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, It is said in the mannual that g_order compute the order parameter per atom for carbon tails. Can it also calculate order (degree of tetrahedrality) for water molecules if only water oxygens are selected in index file? The reference paper is for water molecules though. Also, does it

Re: [gmx-users] g_order question

2010-08-31 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
be a periodic boundary issue, so I issued: trjconv_d_mpi -f 265K_50_50_50_2.xtc -o 265K_50_50_50_2-pbcfixed -pbc whole -s 265K_50_50_50_2.tpr but the problem still persists. Any tips? Regards, Paymon On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 20:37 +0200, David van der Spoel wrote: On 2010-08-31 20.26, Paymon Pirzadeh

Re: [gmx-users] g_order question

2010-08-31 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Here is the command: g_order_d_mpi -f 265K_50_50_50_2-pbcfixed.xtc -n wateroxygens.ndx -s 265K_50_50_50_2.tpr -o Sg265K On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 21:15 +0200, David van der Spoel wrote: On 2010-08-31 21.10, Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Yes, I tried it, but I run into segmentation fault. Here

Re: [gmx-users] g_order question

2010-08-31 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
into the previous segmentation fault. If I just use the Sg, just the temporal profile is generated which is not what I want. Sorry for mass of e-mails, but any tips on that? Paymon On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 21:49 +0200, David van der Spoel wrote: On 2010-08-31 21.19, Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Here is the command

[gmx-users] rotational diffusion of proteins

2010-08-02 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, If we have the .tpr and .xtc outputs, what is the procedure (what GROMACS utilities should be used) to calculate rotational diffusion constant of a protein? Regards, Paymon -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please

[gmx-users] A question on execusion speed

2010-05-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, I have question regarding the execution time of a trajectory. I used to run my trajectory at 265K or 275K and at the end of the log file the speed was reported as e.g. 1.18 ns/day. Recently, I changed the temperature to 288K and now my simulation is not finished in the assigned wall time

[gmx-users] Directional calculation Sg and Potential

2010-04-19 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, This is the second time I am sending this message. I have a protein which has a few Thr residues on one side of itself. I would like to know how should I setup mt index file and use which GROMACS tools to calculate potential energy and Sg of water molecules that only face these residues as

[gmx-users] calculation of potential and Sg

2010-04-16 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, I have a protein which has 4 Thr residues on its one side. I want to calculate the potential energy and Sg of water molecules these Thr residues are facing (up to 10 angstrom). I have a 10ns trajectory and I might need only 5ns of it. How should I set my index file and which tools will help

[gmx-users] reading xtc,trr and edr files

2010-03-08 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, Is there any links to check or commands to read the xtc,trr and edr files for our analysis (writing our own scripts)? What are the format of data in these files for reading them? Payman -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users

[gmx-users] extracting data for individual particles

2010-02-22 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, I have a run with the xtc, trr and edr files available. I would like to color a snapshot of my system with respect to rmsd or potential energy of my particles. How can I extract the potential energy, rmsd or any other needed data from the files available? Is there a specific GROMACS command

[gmx-users] Calculating individual particles' properties

2010-02-22 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, I like to color my particles in terms of their potential energy, rmsd, Sg or other properties. Is there a command that can extract such information from XTC, EDR ot TRR files? Payman -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users

Re: [gmx-users] try to restart a md run using cpt file

2009-11-03 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, To restart a run for continuation, which .cpt file should be used? the one with the outputname.cpt or the outputname_prev.cpt? Payman ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please

RE: [gmx-users] trjcat xtc files

2009-11-02 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
? Payman -Original Message- From: gmx-users-boun...@gromacs.org [mailto:gmx-users-boun...@gromacs.org] On Behalf Of Mark Abraham Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:37 PM To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Subject: Re: [gmx-users] trjcat xtc files Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Sorry

Re: [gmx-users] trjcat xtc files

2009-11-02 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
to such a strange problem? On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 18:57 +0100, XAvier Periole wrote: On Nov 2, 2009, at 18:13, Paymon Pirzadeh ppirz...@ucalgary.ca wrote: Hi Tom, Thanks for the tip. It worked on the command line and I had 3000 frames. But when I fed the file to VMD, it showed only 1800

[gmx-users] minimization problem

2009-10-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, I merged two simulation boxes, and now I want to perform a minimization to remove the problems at their boundary! I have reduced the dt to 0.1 and emstep to 0.1 as well. But still I get the message Reading file Ih0001_81_93_204_min.tpr, VERSION 4.0.5 (double precision)

Re: [gmx-users] minimization problem

2009-10-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
molecule. Best, Itamar. On 26/10/2009, at 10:31 AM, Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Hello, I merged two simulation boxes, and now I want to perform a minimization to remove the problems at their boundary! I have reduced the dt to 0.1 and emstep to 0.1 as well. But still I

[gmx-users] profiles az a function of z

2009-10-16 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, In a simulation, how is it possible to extract the profiles e.g. potential as a function of z (coordinate axis of box)? Payman ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search

Re: [gmx-users] profiles az a function of z

2009-10-16 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Hello, In a simulation, how is it possible to extract the profiles e.g. potential as a function of z (coordinate axis of box)? g_potential can do this for electrostatic potential, but I don't know about anything else. I don't think it is a trivial

[gmx-users] trr file in VMD

2009-10-11 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, How can we use the trr file in VMD? I thought since we ask in the mdp file to output the velocities, then in VMD we should be able to see molecules colored based on their velocities through the trajectory options. Am I correct? Payman ___

Re: [gmx-users] trr file in VMD

2009-10-11 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
I did that but, it did not work! I just get a constant color. On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 18:27 -0700, Amit Choubey wrote: yes you can do that by opening the gro file and then loading the .trr file . amit On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Paymon Pirzadeh ppirz...@ucalgary.ca wrote

Re: [gmx-users] trr file in VMD

2009-10-11 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
. no? On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 21:37 -0400, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: I did that but, it did not work! I just get a constant color. Unless the velocity is written to a field that VMD recognizes, I don't think you'll be able to see the velocities colored. For example, VMD

[gmx-users] problem in loading xtc in VMD

2009-10-02 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, I ran an NVT simulation from a minimized configuration. The simulation ended normally and I have a final configuration as well. But, when I load the initial coordinates and then I want to add data, which is the xtc file, nothing happens! no frames are loaded. This is while the xtc file has

[gmx-users] merging simulation boxes

2009-09-17 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, Are there any links on how we can merge two simulation boxes to make a single configuration? What technicalities should be considered? Payman ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users

Re: [gmx-users] merging simulation boxes

2009-09-17 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
I have a box of crystal (from another simulation) and a box of solvated protein. Now I want to put the protein close to my crystal. Payman On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 09:04 +1000, Mark Abraham wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Hello, Are there any links on how we can merge two simulation boxes

Re: {Spam?} Re: [gmx-users] Re: wierd behavior of mdrun

2009-09-08 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
of water. Since a system of water runs just fine, it seems even more likely to me that your system is simply crashing immediately, rather than a problem with Gromacs or the MPI implementation. -Justin Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Regarding the problems I have on running protein system

Re: [gmx-users] Re: wierd behavior of mdrun

2009-09-04 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Regarding the problems I have on running protein system in parallel (runs without output), When I run pure water system, everything is fine, I have tested pure water systems 8 times larger than my protein system. while the former runs fine, the latter has problems. I have also tested pure water

Re: [gmx-users] wierd behavior of mdrun

2009-08-27 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
I am not sure where things go wrong! Payman On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 07:53 +1000, Mark Abraham wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Can I change the charge of Na ion added from +1 to +0.99 to cancel the negative charge exactly? Does that hurt science or simulation

[gmx-users] wierd behavior of mdrun

2009-08-26 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
+1000, Mark Abraham wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Can I change the charge of Na ion added from +1 to +0.99 to cancel the negative charge exactly? Does that hurt science or simulation? It's probably irrelevant. The representation of decimal numbers on computers can be inexact, such that things

Re: [gmx-users] pdb2gmx -water- grompp; grompp error

2009-08-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
:20 +1000, Mark Abraham wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: I checked all the force-fields available in the GROAMCS. None of them have the #2 combination rule which matches my water model! Any alternatives (rather than changing my water model)? A water model that isn't compatible with the model

Re: [gmx-users] pdb2gmx -water- grompp; grompp error

2009-08-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
for other users. So, I thought how I can keep the changes local. Payman On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 13:53 -0400, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Hello, Just a reminder that I had troubled with combination rules between my water model and GROMACS forcefields. I fixed the problem

Re: [gmx-users] pdb2gmx -water- grompp; grompp error

2009-08-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
I have done that already! I use my local copy to make my files. but how can I get rid of this error? get into the oplsaanb.itp or include this water model in the topology file before oplsaa.itp? Payman On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 14:14 -0400, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote

Re: [gmx-users] pdb2gmx -water- grompp; grompp error

2009-08-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: I have done that already! I use my local copy to make my files. but how can I get rid of this error? get into the oplsaanb.itp or include this water model in the topology file before oplsaa.itp? I don't understand what you're saying you've already done

Re: [gmx-users] pdb2gmx -water- grompp; grompp error

2009-08-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Thanks! I had misunderstood you! I thought you meant to modify them in the root directory! My mistake! Thanks a lot. I will try to see what I can do. Payman On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 14:38 -0400, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: OK! That's fine. But what if I do not have

Re: [gmx-users] pdb2gmx -water- grompp; grompp error

2009-08-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
at 15:45 -0400, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: OK! It worked! Thanks a lot again. But I have a final technical question. After running grompp, it shows that my box has a net charge of -0.99 . Do you think adding one Na+ and reducing the charge to +0.01 is OK?! or even

[gmx-users] grompp warning with ion's name

2009-08-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
atom names from AFP_I_solvated_54_62_102_null.gro will be ignored This is while I could not find such the mentioned mismatch in the two files. Should I ignore this warning? Payman On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 15:59 -0400, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: When I look at the .top

Re: [gmx-users] pdb2gmx -water- grompp; grompp error

2009-08-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
I have tested that if I remove the + sign, grompp will not work at all and says such molecule does not exists. So, I am not sure where the Na-NA mismatch comes from?! Payman On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 15:59 -0400, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: When I look at the .top file

Re: [gmx-users] genion question

2009-08-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Can I change the charge of Na ion added from +1 to +0.99 to cancel the negative charge exactly? Does that hurt science or simulation? Payman On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 17:22 -0400, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: I realized sth about the previous error message I posted

Re: [gmx-users] genion question

2009-08-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
, 2009-08-26 at 07:53 +1000, Mark Abraham wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Can I change the charge of Na ion added from +1 to +0.99 to cancel the negative charge exactly? Does that hurt science or simulation? It's probably irrelevant. The representation of decimal numbers on computers can

Re: [gmx-users] genion question

2009-08-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
if I can attach the .top file to my e-mail for you to check. This way I could learn where and how things go wrong! Payman On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 18:15 -0400, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Thanks for the tips! But I still have problem with my added ion. Justin had

Re: [gmx-users] genion question

2009-08-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Well, when I look into my .top file, almost no where I see closeness to an integer (as close as you said 0.9998). It gets up to -1.05 or -0.91 sometimes. But I can not see a clear trend on where things go wrong. My protein has only 37 amino acids with 451 atoms

[gmx-users] pdb2gmx -water

2009-08-18 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, I am trying to use a different water model for my proteins (using oplsaa force field). I use the .itp file which I developed, but pdb2gmx does not accept it. I am a bit confused on how I can make my water model work with OPLSaa. Based on what I saw from spc.itp or other samples, do I need

Re: [gmx-users] pdb2gmx -water- grompp

2009-08-18 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
A. Lemkul wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Well, I changed the topology file of the system and manually typed the .itp of my own water model. Just a reminder that I have used my own water model's .itp file successfully in pure water systems. This .itp file starts from [ defaults ] and contains

Re: [gmx-users] pdb2gmx -water- grompp

2009-08-18 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
I checked all the force-fields available in the GROAMCS. None of them have the #2 combination rule which matches my water model! Any alternatives (rather than changing my water model)? Payman On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 18:52 -0400, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: That was very

[gmx-users] shuffle switch

2009-08-17 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, I have a quick question about -shuffle switch in grompp. Do we still need to apply this option in 4.0.5 when we use parallel versions or not. regards, Payman ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org

[gmx-users] GROMACS on glacier.westgrid.ca

2009-05-28 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello all, A follow up from my previous problems on running the gromacs on glacier turned out that I had problems in installation. The guide in the manual was not clear enough. So, I installed the code fine this time, so, I get errors from 4.0.4 version. I ran the code interactively on the master

Re: [gmx-users] GROMACS on glacier.westgrid.ca

2009-05-28 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
: p.yamin[at]fz-juelich.de - Original Message - From: Paymon Pirzadeh ppirz...@ucalgary.ca Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009 6:35 pm Subject: [gmx-users] GROMACS on glacier.westgrid.ca Hello all, A follow up from my previous problems on running the gromacs on glacierturned out