Re: [gmx-users] problems with g_wham

2010-07-08 Thread Gavin Melaugh
O.K cheers Chris. I do intend to equilibrate the system at the desired temperature before constructing the histogram. chris.ne...@utoronto.ca wrote: > Depending on your system and chosen thermostat, gen-vel=no can be a > dangerous idea (very small original velocities simply get scaled up); > beside

[gmx-users] problems with g_wham

2010-07-08 Thread chris . neale
Depending on your system and chosen thermostat, gen-vel=no can be a dangerous idea (very small original velocities simply get scaled up); besides, you should be able to equilibrate from a gen-vel=yes pretty quickly. I don't disagree with Justin's comment, but just because it works doesn't m

Re: [gmx-users] problems with g_wham

2010-07-08 Thread Gavin Melaugh
Many thanks Justin A. Lemkul wrote: > > > Gavin Melaugh wrote: >> Hi Justin >> >> I am not using periodic boundary conditions for the simulations. I may >> have sorted it out now. I was generating velocities in the umbrella.mdp >> file, I have since set gen_vel = no, and the histogram has the corr

Re: [gmx-users] problems with g_wham

2010-07-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Gavin Melaugh wrote: Hi Justin I am not using periodic boundary conditions for the simulations. I may have sorted it out now. I was generating velocities in the umbrella.mdp file, I have since set gen_vel = no, and the histogram has the correct shape (should this make a difference?) If you

Re: [gmx-users] problems with g_wham

2010-07-08 Thread Gavin Melaugh
Hi Justin I am not using periodic boundary conditions for the simulations. I may have sorted it out now. I was generating velocities in the umbrella.mdp file, I have since set gen_vel = no, and the histogram has the correct shape (should this make a difference?) Cheers Gavin Justin A. Lemkul wr

Re: [gmx-users] problems with g_wham

2010-07-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Have you watched the trajectory? That will show you what your pull group is doing. Is this a periodicity effect? It should be fairly obvious iff the sign of dX, etc flip-flops in the pullx.xvg file. -Justin Gavin Melaugh wrote: Thanks Chris and Justin I do get the output I want from gro

Re: [gmx-users] problems with g_wham

2010-07-08 Thread Gavin Melaugh
Thanks Chris and Justin I do get the output I want from grompp(below). The distance of 5.507 nm is the distance that I want to start with and I assume it is therefore the equilibrium distance for the harmonic potential. The COM distances from the simulations fluctuate around this value which is wh

[gmx-users] problems with g_wham

2010-07-07 Thread chris . neale
I missed that pull_start = yes, sorry. So Gavin, your run should have stayed around the starting position. Make the histogram directly and you should get a better idea. Chris. -- original message -- To clarify, the tutorial sets "pull_init1 = 0" because it is used in conjunction with "p

Re: [gmx-users] problems with g_wham

2010-07-07 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Gavin Melaugh wrote: Hi Chris Thanks very much for your help. The reason I used pull_init1 = 0 is because this is the value that is used in the tutorial. Maybe I am misinterpreting its meaning. In the tutorial it says that you do not have to specify a value separately for each configuration. I

[gmx-users] problems with g_wham

2010-07-07 Thread chris . neale
Gavin, I think it's time for you to read some papers and read the gromacs manual pull COM section. A few days of reading will make all of this clear to you. -- original message -- Hi Chris Thanks very much for your help. The reason I used pull_init1 = 0 is because this is the value that i

Re: [gmx-users] problems with g_wham

2010-07-07 Thread Gavin Melaugh
Hi Chris Thanks very much for your help. The reason I used pull_init1 = 0 is because this is the value that is used in the tutorial. Maybe I am misinterpreting its meaning. In the tutorial it says that you do not have to specify a value separately for each configuration. I am now thinking that in

[gmx-users] problems with g_wham

2010-07-07 Thread chris . neale
Gavin, let's take g_wham out of the picture for now to simplify things. First, you umbrella is pretty strange. You want them to have a distance of 0.0 nm (pull_init1 = 0)??? So let's look at making a histogram from your raw data. 1. cat pullx.xvg |awk '{print sqrt($1,$5*$5+$6*$6+$7*$7)}' > m

[gmx-users] problems with g_wham

2010-07-07 Thread Gavin Melaugh
Hi Guys I am having great difficulty generating a histogram of the correct shape from g_wham. I am running umbrella sampling on one configuration fo two molecules at a fixed distance using the following pull parameters. ( I am just running one configuration to begin with so that can make sure that