[gmx-users] non-native contatcs

2014-01-14 Thread suhani nagpal
Greetings I'm studying protein unfolding by CTMD and REMD simulations to capture the intermediate states. I want to calculate the non-native contacts formed during the intermediate state. Suggestions please Thanks Suhani Proteomics and Structural biology Lab CSIR-IGIB -- Gromacs Users mailin

Re: [gmx-users] How to define pull-init for two pull groups

2014-01-14 Thread Rini Gupta
Dear gmx-users, Thanks for the nice reply. I have corrected the pull code as: ; Pull code pull= umbrella pull_geometry = position ; pull_dim= N N Y pull_start = yes; define initial COM distance > 0 pull_ngroups= 2 pull_group0 = cbilayer ; center of

Re: [gmx-users] how to modify the shake algorithm

2014-01-14 Thread Mark Abraham
I'd imagine using constraint type 2 between suitable virtual sites would be a much better approach. Not sure it actually works, though! Mark On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Yuan Hu wrote: > Dear Gromacs user/developer, > > > I want to modify the Shake program in gromacs 4.x to constrain the

Re: [gmx-users] Polymer Dihedral Angle Definition

2014-01-14 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 1/14/14, 3:34 PM, decaiyu wrote: Dear All, When I look at the dihedral angle definition (see below) for gromos43a1 force field, most equilibrium angles are either 180 or 0 degrees. I assume that the second number represent the strength of dihedral angle term and the third one is the power.

Re: [gmx-users] About membrane protein

2014-01-14 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 1/14/14, 2:13 PM, paulxie wrote: Justin Lemkul wrote You will have to position the protein differently if it is oriented asymmetrically with respect the the membrane. The same principles apply, but box vectors will certainly be different, as will the editconf command. -Justin - https://

[gmx-users] Polymer Dihedral Angle Definition

2014-01-14 Thread decaiyu
Dear All, When I look at the dihedral angle definition (see below) for gromos43a1 force field, most equilibrium angles are either 180 or 0 degrees. I assume that the second number represent the strength of dihedral angle term and the third one is the power. How do I define the gd term involving a

[gmx-users] Any ideas to evaluate 2D sliced RDF

2014-01-14 Thread Bin Liu
Hi All, I would like to do an analysis of water's properties near PC/PG headgroups compared to those of bulk water. One useful property I can think of is 2D sliced RDF, i.e., the lateral radial distribution function of water in a thin layer, or say, dividing a thick slab of water into thin layers

Re: [gmx-users] About membrane protein

2014-01-14 Thread paulxie
Justin Lemkul wrote > > You will have to position the protein differently if it is oriented > asymmetrically with respect the the membrane. The same principles apply, > but > box vectors will certainly be different, as will the editconf command. > > -Justin > > - > https://maillist.sys.kth.se

[gmx-users] how to modify the shake algorithm

2014-01-14 Thread Yuan Hu
Dear Gromacs user/developer, I want to modify the Shake program in gromacs 4.x to constrain the reaction coordinate to a fixed value, and then get the corresponding constrain force applied. Does anyone could help me about which file i need modify, and how to modify it? Any help will be appre

Re: [gmx-users] Computing melting point

2014-01-14 Thread Suzen, Mehmet
Lindemann criterion might be easier. See For example, * Materials science: Melting from within Nature 413, 582-583 (11 October 2001) | doi:10.1038/35098169 Robert W. Cahn On 14 January 2014 15:35, Golshan Hejazi wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I would like to compute the melting point of a drug c

Re: [gmx-users] name problem

2014-01-14 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 1/14/14, 12:37 PM, Albert wrote: Hello: I found a problem of lipids name when I use editconf each time. My lipids name are: POPC and POPG. When I run command: editconf -f em.gro -o em.pdb the name of my lipids for both POPC and POPG are "POP". I am just wondering how can we solve this pro

Re: [gmx-users] name problem

2014-01-14 Thread jkrieger
I think you can't. People have asked similar questions before. You need to rename the lipids yourself to 3 letter names e.g. POC and POG. > Hello: > > I found a problem of lipids name when I use editconf each time. My > lipids name are: POPC and POPG. When I run command: > > editconf -f em.gro -o

[gmx-users] name problem

2014-01-14 Thread Albert
Hello: I found a problem of lipids name when I use editconf each time. My lipids name are: POPC and POPG. When I run command: editconf -f em.gro -o em.pdb the name of my lipids for both POPC and POPG are "POP". I am just wondering how can we solve this problem by exporting the full name of

Re: [gmx-users] errors with charmm36 ?

2014-01-14 Thread Thomas Piggot
I would just like to also re-iterate the point made by Justin. The conversion of the lipid parameters into GROMACS format was done before there were published updates to other parts of the CHARMM force field and so it is only the lipids which are the CHARMM36 parameters. Regarding the choice o

Re: [gmx-users] errors with charmm36 ?

2014-01-14 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 1/14/14, 11:38 AM, Albert wrote: It is good to know that the c36 and CGenFF is actively update. I just noticed that this new version c36 no longer contains classic TII3P water models: 1: TIP3P TIP 3-point, recommended, by default uses CHARMM TIP3 with LJ on H 2: TIP4P TIP 4-point

Re: [gmx-users] errors with charmm36 ?

2014-01-14 Thread Albert
It is good to know that the c36 and CGenFF is actively update. I just noticed that this new version c36 no longer contains classic TII3P water models: 1: TIP3P TIP 3-point, recommended, by default uses CHARMM TIP3 with LJ on H 2: TIP4P TIP 4-point 3: TIP5P TIP 5-point 4: SPC sim

Re: [gmx-users] Reg Replica exchange Molecular dynamics

2014-01-14 Thread Mark Abraham
Google knows about two GROMACS REMD tutorials, by the way! Mark On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:30 PM, vidhya sankar wrote: > Dear Justin Thank you For your previous reply > > I would like to do REMD (Replica exchange MD) in gromacs I am very happy if > you paste tutorial for REMD, Targeted MD , Con

Re: [gmx-users] errors with charmm36 ?

2014-01-14 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 1/14/14, 10:58 AM, hubert santuz wrote: I use this charmm36 (http://www.gromacs.org/@api/deki/files/184/=charmm36.ff_4.5.4_ref.tgz, from Piggot et al, 2012, JCTC) which have slight differences in the order and in the name of few atoms compared to the one you used. So, everything I said conce

Re: [gmx-users] errors with charmm36 ?

2014-01-14 Thread hubert santuz
I use this charmm36 (http://www.gromacs.org/@api/deki/files/184/=charmm36.ff_4.5.4_ref.tgz, from Piggot et al, 2012, JCTC) which have slight differences in the order and in the name of few atoms compared to the one you used. So, everything I said concern only this version ;) Cheers, Hubert Le

Re: [gmx-users] errors with charmm36 ?

2014-01-14 Thread Manu Vajpai
Hi, Check your position restraints defined in the itp/top file for the lipid molecules and if they correctly reflect the keywords in the MDP file. One reason for the second warning might be that the order of appearance of your lipids and other atoms is not the same between the top and the PDB/GRO

Re: [gmx-users] errors with charmm36 ?

2014-01-14 Thread Albert
On 01/14/2014 04:12 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: The .top is what matters, and your topology showed a clearly different order of atoms. Check the correspondence of the output configuration from pdb2gmx and the .top file. Inputs and .rtp entries are irrelevant once pdb2gmx is done working. -Just

Re: [gmx-users] Polymer Relaxation Issue

2014-01-14 Thread decaiyu
Justin, Thanks for your reply to this and my previous post! I looked at my .mdp and found the following line actually restrict the atom positions. ; VARIOUS PREPROCESSING OPTIONS define = -DPOSRES I have another question on dihedral angle parameter definition. I will post in a separate message. I

Re: [gmx-users] errors with charmm36 ?

2014-01-14 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 1/14/14, 10:09 AM, Albert wrote: Hi Justin and Hubert: Many thanks for your kind pointing out. Are you using the new version of CHARMM36? I am using the one from here: http://mackerell.umaryland.edu/download.php?filename=CHARMM_ff_params_files/charmm36_gmx_format_sep13.tgz I opened the m

Re: [gmx-users] errors with charmm36 ?

2014-01-14 Thread Albert
Hi Justin and Hubert: Many thanks for your kind pointing out. Are you using the new version of CHARMM36? I am using the one from here: http://mackerell.umaryland.edu/download.php?filename=CHARMM_ff_params_files/charmm36_gmx_format_sep13.tgz I opened the merged.rtp file within the charmm36.ff

[gmx-users] Computing melting point

2014-01-14 Thread Golshan Hejazi
Hello everyone! I would like to compute the melting point of a drug crystalline system. In the literature, there exist a good number of methods to do so!  Among them, I read Gibbs-Duhem integration technique in which one needs to provide a reference coexistence of solid/liquid. I read some artic

Re: [gmx-users] errors with charmm36 ?

2014-01-14 Thread hubert santuz
Hi, I just came across this issue a few days ago (with charmm-gui also). In fact, atoms C13, C14 and C15 should be just after the C12 atoms in the pdb (to match the itp file). Here a piece of code that I used to retrieve the good order for all POPC molecules in your gro file (on unix platform

Re: [gmx-users] How much should epsilon-r be set?

2014-01-14 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 1/14/14, 8:07 AM, 李晴 wrote: Dear gmx-users, I use GMX to simulate a protein 700 peptide long with a ligand. The protein-ligand complex is put in a box with explicit water. I use AMBER99 force field. The epsilon-r was set with the default value 1, with coulombtype=PME. The problem is, the

Re: [gmx-users] How to define pull-init for two pull groups

2014-01-14 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 1/13/14, 7:40 PM, Rini Gupta wrote: Dear gmx-users, I want to calculate Potential of Mean Force (PMF) of a lipid in a bilayer by umbrella sampling method using coarse grain molecular dynamics simulations. My simulation system consists of 76 (PEPC and GDPE lipids mixture), 2495 water molecul

Re: [gmx-users] errors with charmm36 ?

2014-01-14 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 1/14/14, 6:41 AM, Albert wrote: Hello: I am trying to equilibrate a membrane system which contains both POPC and POPG. I generate the system with charmm-gui, and I try to minimize it in Gromacs. Here is my em.mdp file: define = -DPOSRES_POPC -DPOSRES_POPG constraints = none integ

[gmx-users] How much should epsilon-r be set?

2014-01-14 Thread 李晴
Dear gmx-users, I use GMX to simulate a protein 700 peptide long with a ligand. The protein-ligand complex is put in a box with explicit water. I use AMBER99 force field. The epsilon-r was set with the default value 1, with coulombtype=PME. The problem is, the energy generated from .xtc file usi

Re: [gmx-users] Reg Replica exchange Molecular dynamics

2014-01-14 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 1/14/14, 7:29 AM, vidhya sankar wrote: Dear Justin Thank you For your previous reply I would like to do REMD (Replica exchange MD) in gromacs I am very happy if you paste tutorial for REMD, Targeted MD

[gmx-users] Reg Replica exchange Molecular dynamics

2014-01-14 Thread vidhya sankar
Dear Justin Thank you For your previous reply   I would like to do REMD (Replica exchange MD) in gromacs I am very happy if you paste  tutorial for REMD, Targeted MD , Constraint MD  and Non Equilibrium MD  as

[gmx-users] Reg Replica exchange Molecular dynamics

2014-01-14 Thread vidhya sankar
Dear Justin Thank you For your previous reply   I would like to do REMD (Replica exchange MD) in gromacs I am very happy if you paste  tutorial for REMD, Targeted MD , Constraint MD  and Non Equilibrium MD  as

[gmx-users] errors with charmm36 ?

2014-01-14 Thread Albert
Hello: I am trying to equilibrate a membrane system which contains both POPC and POPG. I generate the system with charmm-gui, and I try to minimize it in Gromacs. Here is my em.mdp file: define = -DPOSRES_POPC -DPOSRES_POPG constraints = none integrator = steep dt = 0.00