[gmx-users] problem regarding cut-off and the PME grid spacing

2016-04-18 Thread Tuhin Samanta
Dear Hello Gromacs users, My system involves water molecules in a box of 5x5x5 nm3. When I was doing the simulation for energy minimization I got n error message -- The optimal PME mesh load for parallel simulations is below 0.5 and for highly parallel simulations between 0.25 and 0.33, for

Re: [gmx-users] Zn moves away from protein - ligand complex

2016-04-18 Thread HongTham
Hi Mark, Sorry that I don't get you. Can you explain a little bit for me? I just wonder if Zn really moves out of active site, when I display multi box in VMD, there shouldn't have another Zn bound in there. Sincerely, Hongtham -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://

Re: [gmx-users] Some simple questions about using -rerun in mdrun for energy between two groups

2016-04-18 Thread Sheng Bi
> -Original Messages- > From: "Mark Abraham" > Sent Time: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 > To: gmx-us...@gromacs.org, gromacs.org_gmx-users@maillist.sys.kth.se > Cc: > Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Some simple questions about using -rerun in mdrun > for energy between two groups > > Hi, > > Thi

Re: [gmx-users] Some simple questions about using -rerun in mdrun for energy between two groups

2016-04-18 Thread Sheng Bi
> -Original Messages- > From: "Justin Lemkul" > Sent Time: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 > To: gmx-us...@gromacs.org > Cc: > Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Some simple questions about using -rerun in mdrun > for energy between two groups > > > > On 4/18/16 1:19 PM, Sheng Bi wrote: > > Dear GMX

Re: [gmx-users] Adapting metallic ions from AMBER to GROMACS

2016-04-18 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, Convert the units and absorb the factor of two to the minus six. Compare with other ions present in both representations of such force fields. Mark On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 02:21 Pedro Lacerda wrote: > Hi Gromacs users, > > We are planning a simulation with a metallic (fe+2) attached on the > p

[gmx-users] Adapting metallic ions from AMBER to GROMACS

2016-04-18 Thread Pedro Lacerda
Hi Gromacs users, We are planning a simulation with a metallic (fe+2) attached on the protein. The parameters found in [1] cannot be directly inserted on ffnonbonded.itp because equation 1 of [1] and equation 4.5 of [2] are slightly different. Theoreticaly these Lennard-Jones parameters could be

Re: [gmx-users] Zn moves away from protein - ligand complex

2016-04-18 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, The operations you are doing are working differently on the different ranges of values that the various groups take over the course of the simulation. The only way to get a reliable result in all cases is to actually say what you want - that these three things belong always together. Mark On

Re: [gmx-users] Zn moves away from protein - ligand complex

2016-04-18 Thread HongTham
HI Mark, I don't get the reason why this happens to Zn since Protein and ligand are fix well with trjconv options. Would you please point to me particular reason for it? is it simply because of visualization or there is really problem with simulation? Thank you very much Hongtham On Mon, Apr 18,

Re: [gmx-users] trjconv index mismatch

2016-04-18 Thread Alex
You, my friend, are a genius. All worked, thanks tons. Alex On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: > > > On 4/18/16 7:39 PM, Alex wrote: > >> The atom groups, as they appear in the coordinate input, are: >> >> 1. DNA atoms (labeled DA, DC, etc) >> 2. CNT atoms >> 3. SOL >> 4. Ion

Re: [gmx-users] trjconv index mismatch

2016-04-18 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/18/16 7:39 PM, Alex wrote: The atom groups, as they appear in the coordinate input, are: 1. DNA atoms (labeled DA, DC, etc) 2. CNT atoms 3. SOL 4. Ions I tried the following (prod.tpr and traj_comp.xtc are the original tpr and compressed trajectory, respectively): step 1: gmx convert-

Re: [gmx-users] trjconv index mismatch

2016-04-18 Thread Alex
The atom groups, as they appear in the coordinate input, are: 1. DNA atoms (labeled DA, DC, etc) 2. CNT atoms 3. SOL 4. Ions I tried the following (prod.tpr and traj_comp.xtc are the original tpr and compressed trajectory, respectively): step 1: gmx convert-tpr -s prod.tpr -o cnt_only.tpr selec

Re: [gmx-users] trjconv index mismatch

2016-04-18 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/18/16 7:27 PM, Alex wrote: Yes, there are more atoms in the system, but only 2837 of them are labeled "CNT.' Well, I could share the files with you, of course, but you're running the latest version, aren't you? :) As you might expect, yes. Do the atom numbers of the CNT start from 1, o

Re: [gmx-users] trjconv index mismatch

2016-04-18 Thread Alex
Yes, there are more atoms in the system, but only 2837 of them are labeled "CNT.' Well, I could share the files with you, of course, but you're running the latest version, aren't you? :) On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Justin Lemkul wrote: > > > On 4/18/16 7:20 PM, Alex wrote: > >> Justin, >> >

Re: [gmx-users] trjconv index mismatch

2016-04-18 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/18/16 7:20 PM, Alex wrote: Justin, I understand what you're saying, but for the life of me I can't understand where this discrepancy is coming from, because the input coordinates have 2837 CNT atoms, and trjconv selector menu lists that number correctly. Completely lost here. Are there an

Re: [gmx-users] trjconv index mismatch

2016-04-18 Thread Alex
Justin, I understand what you're saying, but for the life of me I can't understand where this discrepancy is coming from, because the input coordinates have 2837 CNT atoms, and trjconv selector menu lists that number correctly. Completely lost here. Are there any alternatives to output (in mdp) th

Re: [gmx-users] trjconv index mismatch

2016-04-18 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/18/16 6:17 PM, Alex wrote: Hi all, I've got a system that includes a group named "CNT" consisting of 2837 atoms. To save space, I am outputting (at a very high rate) a compressed trajectory that contains only that group. The GMX version is 5.0.5. Here's the relevant mdp excerpt: nstxout

Re: [gmx-users] trjconv index mismatch

2016-04-18 Thread Juan Manuel Aceves-Hernandez
Dear all, is there an international workshop about Gromacs in America or Europe the near future?. 2016-04-18 17:17 GMT-05:00 Alex : > Hi all, > > I've got a system that includes a group named "CNT" consisting of 2837 > atoms. To save space, I am outputting (at a very high rate) a compressed > tr

[gmx-users] trjconv index mismatch

2016-04-18 Thread Alex
Hi all, I've got a system that includes a group named "CNT" consisting of 2837 atoms. To save space, I am outputting (at a very high rate) a compressed trajectory that contains only that group. The GMX version is 5.0.5. Here's the relevant mdp excerpt: nstxout = 1 nstcomm

Re: [gmx-users] Details of 5.0 benchmark report?

2016-04-18 Thread Szilárd Páll
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Adam Huffman wrote: > Hi Szilárd, > > Yes, it's certainly not worth a large effort to try and recover the > information. > > Thanks for the link, which should be very useful. > > The next time you're looking at something like this, it might be worth > trying to ca

Re: [gmx-users] Details of 5.0 benchmark report?

2016-04-18 Thread Adam Huffman
Hi Szilárd, Yes, it's certainly not worth a large effort to try and recover the information. Thanks for the link, which should be very useful. The next time you're looking at something like this, it might be worth trying to capture what might be useful for others to run tests themselves. Thanks

Re: [gmx-users] Dihedral convention

2016-04-18 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Mark: I don't mean to carry this thread beyond its natural life, but I think the OP is referring to improper dihedrals, harmonic type and not to improper dihedrals, periodic type (or maybe I just don't get how "cos(n * phi + phi_0)" is related to the harmonic type?) Regarding an improper

Re: [gmx-users] Get rid of verbosity in Gromacs output

2016-04-18 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/18/16 1:36 PM, Xingcheng Lin wrote: Hi, Is there anyway in gromacs5.0 to get rid of the Verbosity output such as "GROMACS is written by:..." when executing each Gromacs command? Use -nocopyright -quiet. -Justin -- == Justin A. Lemkul,

[gmx-users] Get rid of verbosity in Gromacs output

2016-04-18 Thread Xingcheng Lin
Hi, Is there anyway in gromacs5.0 to get rid of the Verbosity output such as "GROMACS is written by:..." when executing each Gromacs command? Thank you, -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! * C

Re: [gmx-users] Some simple questions about using -rerun in mdrun for energy between two groups

2016-04-18 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/18/16 1:19 PM, Sheng Bi wrote: Dear GMX Users I have some questions when using -rerun in mdrun to get some specific energy for my groups. Let me describe my question in this way. I have a system containing some groups which include A and B and others. My goal is to calculate the energy b

Re: [gmx-users] Some simple questions about using -rerun in mdrun for energy between two groups

2016-04-18 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, This just works on the original trajectory if you use energy groups in the rerun tpr. Whether the numbers are useful is another matter :-) Mark On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 18:27 Sheng Bi wrote: > Dear GMX Users > I have some questions when using -rerun in mdrun to get some specific > energy for my

Re: [gmx-users] Molecule not minimized and NVT failure

2016-04-18 Thread suniba
Thank you Justin, I understand the problems with PRODRG. I am switching to ATB now but earlier, I performed similar study with different ligand using PRODRG, and corrected charges according to the mentioned paper. No problem occured at all. I understand all systems are different. I was surprised

[gmx-users] Some simple questions about using -rerun in mdrun for energy between two groups

2016-04-18 Thread Sheng Bi
Dear GMX Users I have some questions when using -rerun in mdrun to get some specific energy for my groups. Let me describe my question in this way. I have a system containing some groups which include A and B and others. My goal is to calculate the energy between A and B. So Here is my steps: fi

Re: [gmx-users] SETTLE vs. LINCS -- different final energies of energy minimized structures

2016-04-18 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, I would further speculate that these differences are not even significant. You can also try rotating the whole system with gmx editconf before you generate the EM input, and that will be enough to change the order of the floating point arithmetic, so that a different final energy minimum will

Re: [gmx-users] Molecule not minimized and NVT failure

2016-04-18 Thread suniba
Hi Mark I corrected the PRODRG charges according to the paper cited in tutorial. The final energy after EM was -5.6. Anyhow, I will visualize em results and then see what happens. Thank you Sent from my iPhone > On 18-Apr-2016, at 9:37 pm, Mark Abraham wrote: > > Hi, > > The number of EM st

Re: [gmx-users] SETTLE vs. LINCS -- different final energies of energy minimized structures

2016-04-18 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/18/16 10:30 AM, Rakesh Sharan wrote: Thanks very much Justin. Actually I am minimization a series of configurations from an equilibrated trajectory of bulk TIP4P/2005 (LINCS used as constraint algorithm). I need So, to be clear, you altered the TIP4P topology to use a system of 3 constr

Re: [gmx-users] Molecule not minimized and NVT failure

2016-04-18 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, The number of EM steps doesn't mean anything. The final energy can suggest that something sensible happened, but the values depend on what your system has in it. You also should visualize the result of the EM and see if that fits with your chemical knowledge. PRODRG charges often won't produce

Re: [gmx-users] Molecule not minimized and NVT failure

2016-04-18 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/18/16 12:02 PM, suniba wrote: Hello users I am doing protein-ligand MD using Gromos 43A1 and GROMACS 5.0. Therefore, following Justin's tutorial, I used PRODRG for ligand topolgy. I After doing my tutorial, you should *not* be using PRODRG for topologies, for the reasons mentioned in t

Re: [gmx-users] doubt about "Ignoring obsolete mdp entry"

2016-04-18 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, If you're trying to use such features, then you want to find out how they are currently implemented and use those instead. Probably you don't care about most of them. The defaults are all reasonably sensible, and if there was some issue that you had to act upon, then you'd get an error or a wa

[gmx-users] Molecule not minimized and NVT failure

2016-04-18 Thread suniba
Hello users I am doing protein-ligand MD using Gromos 43A1 and GROMACS 5.0. Therefore, following Justin's tutorial, I used PRODRG for ligand topolgy. I have drawn ligand using chemdraw and minimized the structure using chem3D. However, during energy minimization step in gromacs, the values conv

[gmx-users] doubt about "Ignoring obsolete mdp entry"

2016-04-18 Thread Tushar Ranjan Moharana
Hi all, To calculate delta G of mutation I was following the following tutorial http://www3.mpibpc.mpg.de/groups/de_groot/cecam2015/peptide_mutation/ However following outputs of grompp is confusing me Ignoring obsolete mdp entry 'cpp' Ignoring obsolete mdp entry 'domain-decomposition' Ignoring

[gmx-users] potential of mean force of pore formation in the lipid bilayer by using potential of mean constraint force (PMCF) method.

2016-04-18 Thread Mayank Dixit
Dear All, I want to calculate the potential of mean force of pore formation in the lipid bilayer by using potential of mean constraint force (PMCF) method. Can anybody suggest me how to use pull method to compute the pmf of pore formation. How to define the reaction coordinate of p

Re: [gmx-users] SETTLE vs. LINCS -- different final energies of energy minimized structures

2016-04-18 Thread Rakesh Sharan
Thanks very much Justin. Actually I am minimization a series of configurations from an equilibrated trajectory of bulk TIP4P/2005 (LINCS used as constraint algorithm). I need the final energy of the energy minimized structures, however, you can see that depending on the choice of constrained algor

[gmx-users] gmx wham crashes with buffer overflow

2016-04-18 Thread Michail Palaiokostas Avramidis
Dear gmx users, I am using gmx wham to analyse umbrella sampling simulations. I have 30 positions along the reaction coordinate and therefore 30 tpr, pullf and pullx files. Each of these files have 100,000 rows, as I save every ps. When I try to execute wham with the command: gmx wham -it tp

Re: [gmx-users] MARTINI simulation of protein-protein recognition

2016-04-18 Thread James Starlight
Ok thanks I will look into the tutorial! J. 2016-04-18 16:02 GMT+02:00 Kroon, P.C. : > @Michael: Yes, you are right, a protein is a protein. IIRC the martinize > script does the same as pdb2gmx in this case. > @James: It really sounds like you want to do DAFT. > http://www.biotechnik.nat.uni-erla

Re: [gmx-users] wierd gro file output.

2016-04-18 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, What were the actual commands, e.g. to grompp and trjconv that produced such results? I think you've done something mutually inconsistent. Mark On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:22 PM abhishek khetan wrote: > Dear gmx-users, > > I was analysing some trajectory files from a box of acetonitrile solv

Re: [gmx-users] MARTINI simulation of protein-protein recognition

2016-04-18 Thread Kroon, P.C.
@Michael: Yes, you are right, a protein is a protein. IIRC the martinize script does the same as pdb2gmx in this case. @James: It really sounds like you want to do DAFT. http://www.biotechnik.nat.uni-erlangen.de/research/boeckmann/downloads/DAFT/index.shtml seems to contain an tutorial. Otherwise,

Re: [gmx-users] MARTINI simulation of protein-protein recognition

2016-04-18 Thread Smith, Micholas D.
Hi James, My guess is that running a two (unbound) protein simulation with the MARTINI force-field will be the same as if it was all atom. Build two separate protein topologies (with Martini force-fields) as *.itp files to include in your *.top and go from there. The topology file is what gromp

Re: [gmx-users] Osmotic pressure

2016-04-18 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/18/16 4:43 AM, gozde ergin wrote: In Roux study they did 10 independent 1.5 ns production simulation and I did 15 ns simulation and divided it to 10 1.5ns simulations. Osmotic pressure for 5M : My result 216.8 (+/- 0.2 bar) Roux study 300(+/

Re: [gmx-users] position restrain energy

2016-04-18 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 4/18/16 9:05 AM, Nikhil Maroli wrote: Hi thanks for your suggestion, When i give both same name in mdp and top it gives an error Atom index (123) in position_restraints out of bounds (1-122). This probably means that you have inserted topology section "position_restraints this is my topo

Re: [gmx-users] MARTINI simulation of protein-protein recognition

2016-04-18 Thread James Starlight
It seems like smth very complicated :) I just need to put two different proteins in the system - one in the membrane (A) and one in the water (B) and simulate it independently 10 times to collect statistics about associations of A and B during those runs. The problems that I don't know how to put

[gmx-users] wierd gro file output.

2016-04-18 Thread abhishek khetan
Dear gmx-users, I was analysing some trajectory files from a box of acetonitrile solvents when i realised that despite using trjconv -pbc whole and then trjconv -pbc no jump, the molecules appeared to be broken when visualising using pymol. When i looked that the gro file, the final gro file was

Re: [gmx-users] position restrain energy

2016-04-18 Thread Nikhil Maroli
Hi thanks for your suggestion, When i give both same name in mdp and top it gives an error Atom index (123) in position_restraints out of bounds (1-122). This probably means that you have inserted topology section "position_restraints this is my topology file structure ; Include forcefield para

Re: [gmx-users] Zn moves away from protein - ligand complex

2016-04-18 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, If you have a cluster of things that make sense to treat together then you must tell the tool that, via using such an index group. We haven't yet worked out to implement "do what I want" :-) Mark On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:40 HongTham wrote: > Hello Gromacs users, > I'm running a Zn bound prot

Re: [gmx-users] Thermodynamic integration

2016-04-18 Thread Hannes Loeffler
TI/FEP are appropriate when you have "small" changes between states. Whether you delete/create all of a molecule or just part of it doesn't matter that much. So a relative simulation between a glycated and non-glycated sounds quite reasonable to me. Of course, this will become increasingly more d

[gmx-users] Zn moves away from protein - ligand complex

2016-04-18 Thread HongTham
Hello Gromacs users, I'm running a Zn bound protein - ligand complex simulation. I solvated whole system in a dodecahedron box. I also meet the problems with boundary effects. I try to use the gmx trjconv with option -pbc mol -ur compact -center to fix the problem. However, it doesn't work. The pro

Re: [gmx-users] Thermodynamic integration

2016-04-18 Thread Nash, Anthony
Hi Mark, I will give that a thorough read. I was wondering if you could possibly comment on whether TI is an appropriate tool for calculating the free energy difference between two states, A―> non-glycated side chain, and b―> glycated side chain? Most examples given focus on the inclusion/exclusio

Re: [gmx-users] Dihedral convention

2016-04-18 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:10 Christopher Neale wrote: > Where? I took a look at v5.1.2 manual section 4.2.12 and could not find > it, hence my suggestion to test it out. I note that there is indeed some > definition in section 4.2.13: "Proper dihedral angles are defined according > to the IUPAC/

Re: [gmx-users] (no subject)

2016-04-18 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, Off-list Ali sent me a link to his movie - this does indeed show the ligand diffusing out gradually, rather than "jumping" in a discrete step. Such an event would be very rare for a lot of bound ligands with a suitable model physics, so if it's reproducible then you have problems with the mode

Re: [gmx-users] Thermodynamic integration

2016-04-18 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, Also you might consider pmx http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4365728/ for such topology generation. There is further work in the pipeline, so do get in touch with Bert if there's something of interest. Mark On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:56 AM Nash, Anthony wrote: > From the site, “

Re: [gmx-users] Thermodynamic integration

2016-04-18 Thread Nash, Anthony
From the site, “..or the free energy of a mutation of a side chain.” I think this is what I am after. Many thanks for the link. Anthony On 18/04/2016 10:42, "gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se on behalf of Hannes Loeffler" wrote: >A good starting point is http://www.alchemistr

Re: [gmx-users] Thermodynamic integration

2016-04-18 Thread Hannes Loeffler
A good starting point is http://www.alchemistry.org/ which has quite a lot of detail on relative alchemical free energy simulations (not only TI). On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 09:27:02 + "Nash, Anthony" wrote: > Hi all, > > I¹m looking for a guide on performing TI between a protein in its > crystal

[gmx-users] Thermodynamic integration

2016-04-18 Thread Nash, Anthony
Hi all, I¹m looking for a guide on performing TI between a protein in its crystal periodicity with a particular residue (state A), to the same system but with a different residue (state B). I¹m currently using http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin/gmx-tutorials/free _energy/01_

Re: [gmx-users] Osmotic pressure

2016-04-18 Thread gozde ergin
Hi Mark, I guess so because a lot of studies cite this study also their results are almost identical with the experimental one. > On 18 Apr 2016, at 10:46, Mark Abraham wrote: > > Are they known to produce these observables accurately -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archiv

Re: [gmx-users] Osmotic pressure

2016-04-18 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, Are they known to produce these observables accurately? Might a wrong distribution of KE affect them? Mark On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:00 gozde ergin wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I use Berendsen for T and P-coupl. > Do you think I should change them? > > > On 15 Apr 2016, at 11:55, Mark Abraham wrote

Re: [gmx-users] Osmotic pressure

2016-04-18 Thread gozde ergin
In Roux study they did 10 independent 1.5 ns production simulation and I did 15 ns simulation and divided it to 10 1.5ns simulations. Osmotic pressure for 5M : My result 216.8 (+/- 0.2 bar) Roux study 300(+/- 10 bar)

Re: [gmx-users] Osmotic pressure

2016-04-18 Thread Mark Abraham
Hi, What statistical error do you (and they) measure? How many replicates have each of you done? Mark On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:25 gozde ergin wrote: > Hi Justin, > > I corrected the nonbonded settings as your suggestion ; > > ; Bond parameters > continuation = no > constraint_algorithm =

Re: [gmx-users] Osmotic pressure

2016-04-18 Thread gozde ergin
Hi Justin, I corrected the nonbonded settings as your suggestion ; ; Bond parameters continuation = no constraint_algorithm = shake constraints = h-bonds shake_tol= 0.0001 cutoff-scheme = Verlet vdwtype = cutoff vdw-modifier = force-switch rvdw-switch = 1.0

Re: [gmx-users] MARTINI simulation of protein-protein recognition

2016-04-18 Thread Kroon, P.C.
Hi, I assume you want to study the binding of your water soluble protein to your membrane(protein). DAFT was created to do just this. DOI: 10.1021/ct5010092 Peter On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 3:37 PM, James Starlight wrote: > Dear Gromacs users! > > I am looking for some tutorial for the MARTINI si

Re: [gmx-users] position restrain energy

2016-04-18 Thread gozde ergin
You defined in .top file as POSRES_Protein so in .mdp file you should call as define = -DPOSRES_Protein. The names in .top and .mdp should match On 18 Apr 2016, at 08:46, Nikhil Maroli wrote: > > Dear all, > i wanted to include position restrain to cyclic peptide nanotube c-alpha > atoms

Re: [gmx-users] on force field for ligand

2016-04-18 Thread gozde ergin
Hi Brett, If you have all the necessary .itp files and if your .top file is generated correctly, yes it works. > On 18 Apr 2016, at 09:23, Brett wrote: > > Dear All, > > > Does GROMACS work if the force field for ligand part is GAFF force field? > > > Brett > -- > Gromacs Users mailing li

[gmx-users] on force field for ligand

2016-04-18 Thread Brett
Dear All, Does GROMACS work if the force field for ligand part is GAFF force field? Brett -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! * Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists