[gmx-users] gmx rdf with surf option

2019-11-13 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear GMX users, I have a question regarding GMX RDF and I apologize if my question is too basic. My trajectory consists of a dimer inserted in a membrane with an explicit water/ion environment. I would like to compute the distribution of the center of mass of lipid molecules to the surface of

[gmx-users] PCA with Gromacs

2019-04-16 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear Gmx users, I've been using Gromacs to perform Principal Component Analysis on my trajectories. 1- With gmx anaeig, we can plot a 2d projection of a trajectory on eigenvectors 1 and 2 (for example). I would like to know if there is a way to obtain the same plot but where the points are

Re: [gmx-users] Simulation crashed - Large VCM, Pressure scaling more than 1%, Bond length not finite

2019-03-11 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Thanks a lot, Kevin for your comments and help. Zeineb -- 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 * For (un)subscribe requests visit

Re: [gmx-users] Simulation crashed - Large VCM, Pressure scaling more than 1%, Bond length not finite

2019-02-26 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear Kevin, Thank you for your reply. I did 2 tests: 1- I wanted to see in details when the system crashes and which atoms are involved so I restarted the simulation from the checkpoint but using a new mdp file. The only parameter that I changed was nstxout-compressed = 1. In this case, the

[gmx-users] Simulation crashed - Large VCM, Pressure scaling more than 1%, Bond length not finite

2019-02-25 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear GMX users, I am running a Coarse-Grained simulation using Martini Force Field. My system consists of a Protein inserted in a lipid bilayer containing POPC, POPE, and CHOL molecules, in the presence of Water and ions. I followed the conventional steps to prepare my system for the

Re: [gmx-users] Calculating tilt angle with respect to the membrane normal

2019-01-25 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Finally, I visualized the data in the output file of -otilt (tilt_TMC1CA.xvg) using xmgrace with the command: xmgrace -nxy tilt_TMC1CA.xvg I read again the documentation of gmx helixorient and if I understood well, the values of the tilt angle of the helix axis to the membrane plan are

[gmx-users] Calculating tilt angle with respect to the membrane normal

2019-01-25 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear GMX users, I would like to calculate the angle of a transmembrane helix long axis with respect to the membrane normal and see how this angle fluctuates during the simulation. In the forums, people were suggesting to use gmx helixorient. I used it with the following command: gmx

Re: [gmx-users] Simulation crashed, fatal error: Bond length not finite and warning: Pressure scaling more than 1%.

2018-05-30 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear all, Thank you for your suggestions and help. @Quyen, I checked the energies, box fluctuations and pressure deviations and everything seem correct: Energies (potential, kinetic and total) were stable during the simulation and the average of the pressure was 1.04 bar. @ Peter, I

[gmx-users] Simulation crashed, fatal error: Bond length not finite and warning: Pressure scaling more than 1%.

2018-05-25 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear GMX users, I'm running a coarse-grained simulation of a homo-dimer in a membrane composed of POPC, POPE, and CHOL (31%, 41%, 28% respectively), using MARTINI force field and GROMACS software. I followed the usual steps with 1ns minimization, 50 ns NVT equilibration followed by 50ns NPT

Re: [gmx-users] Analyzing Desmond trajectories using GROMACS tools

2017-03-06 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear Justin, Again, thank you very much for your fast reply, which is very clear. However, I'm having difficulties to understand how the tools that I'll use will not depend on the force field parameters. For example, I'll use gmx_order to compute the order parameter per atom for carbon

Re: [gmx-users] Analyzing Desmond trajectories using GROMACS tools

2017-03-06 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear Justin, Thank you very much for your help and clarifications. I have a question please: I used OPLS-3 force field when running my simulations with Desmond, which is absent in GROMACS 5.1.3 In order to generate the topology (protein and POPC), I guess I have to work with the same force

[gmx-users] Analyzing Desmond trajectories using GROMACS tools

2017-03-03 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear gmx users, I'm running simulations on membrane proteins (POPC) using Desmond software and I would like to use GROMACS tools to analyze certain parameters related to the membrane. Exemple: - Deuterium order parameters of the acyl chains - Density of the membrane environment - Area per lipid

Re: [gmx-users] Water molecule can not be settled

2016-07-04 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Thank you very much Justin, I'll add the [bonds] parameters and I'll let you know. Regards. Zeineb -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! * Can't

[gmx-users] Recognizing the Fe-S bond in Hemprotein by pdb2gmx

2016-07-04 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear gmx users, I'm working on a Hemprotein (homodimer) and I'm having some troubles with pdb2gmx in order to recognize the Fe-S bond (between the hem and a residue of my protein): In my pdb2gmx command, I'm using chainsep option in a way that the HEM and the protein belongs to the same

Re: [gmx-users] Water molecule can not be settled‏

2016-07-04 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear Mark, Thank you very much for your help. I checked the .itp file of my new parametrized molecule (THF) generated by pdb2gmx and it is not completed (only [atoms] entry, there is no [bonds], [angles] or [dihedrals] entries. Effectively, pdb2gmx failed to generate the topology of the

Re: [gmx-users] Water molecule can not be settled‏

2016-07-01 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
These VMD warnings are normal I guess, I had them when I opened another PDB file (that contain the THF and it was correctly displayed!). Zeineb

Re: [gmx-users] Water molecule can not be settled‏

2016-07-01 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
When I verified the output of VMD after opening the file I had these warnings: Warning) Detected a mismatch between CUDA runtime and GPU driver Warning) Check to make sure that GPU drivers are up to date. Info) No CUDA accelerator devices available. Warning) Detected X11 'Composite' extension:

Re: [gmx-users] gromacs.org_gmx-users Digest, Vol 147, Issue 3

2016-07-01 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
I verified the names in the .gro files: all the names are OK! I also verified a C=C bond distance (within an aromatic cycle) and it is = 3.67 (I took a PDB file used to generate this model and which contain the THF, the distance between the same atoms were 1,43!!) Zeineb

Re: [gmx-users] Water molecule can not be settled

2016-06-30 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear Mark, Thank you for your orientation. I looked in Google and based on what you advised me, I prepared the following mdp file integrator = steep nsteps = 1000 emtol = 1000.0 emstep = 0.01 energygrps= system pbc = no nstlist = 0 ns-type = simple rlist = 0

Re: [gmx-users] Water molecule can not be settled

2016-06-30 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear Mark, Thank you very much for your answer. I'm trying to minimize my protein in vacuo but I'm havig problem to undrstand the concept of "in vacuo" so I'm enable to construct an mdp file and I can't found valid examples in forums and internet. Could you help me with that please? Also,

[gmx-users] Water molecule can not be settled

2016-06-29 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear gmx users, I'm having problems during my energy minimisation step, I tried different options in the mdp file but I'm enable to fix the problem, I'm hoping that you can help me with this. My system is a dimer that contain HEM, cofactor (Tetrahydrofolate, THF) and arginin (substrate).

Re: [gmx-users] Generating topology for a HEM protein with CHARMM27

2016-05-25 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
@Justin, Thank you very much for your help, I finally fixed the problem but I'm having another one with grompp (which was expected): The error that I get is: ERROR 7 [file topol.top, line 41571]: No default Proper Dih. types Fatal error: There were 13 errors in input file(s) I think that

[gmx-users] Generating topology for a HEM protein with CHARMM27

2016-05-23 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
I'm looking to generate the topology of a HEM protein , I choose CHARMM as a force field. At the begining, when I run pdb2gmx I had this error about missing hydrogen's: WARNING: atom HA is missing in residue HEM 473 in the pdb file You might need to add atom HA to the hydrogen database

[gmx-users] Generating topology for a hem protein

2016-05-19 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear all, I'm desperetly looking for help to generate the topology of my hem protein. I'm using CHARMM as a force field and apparently PDB2gmx assigns dihedrals that should not exist and it's complicated to verify everything. Justin suggested using

Re: [gmx-users] Generating topology for Tetrahydrofolate within CHARMM ff

2016-05-17 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
@ Justin Dear Justin, Thank you very much for the links. I'll read the articles and see how I can fix my topology file! Zeineb.

[gmx-users] Re. Generating topology for Tetrahydrofolate within CHARMM ff

2016-05-13 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
@ Justin Dear Justin, Thank you very much for the website. I tried to generate my topology from the website. After many problems in my input file, it finally generated the .str file with no error/warnings found but unfortunately some penalties were not good at all (> 50 and between 10

Re: [gmx-users] Generating topology for a HEM protein with CHARMM27

2016-05-13 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
@ Justin Dear Justin, Thank you very much for your orientation and help. I visited CHARMM-GUI website and I found interesting tutorials for my HEM-protein but before going further I would like to know if it's feasible to use CHARMM GUI for my Hem-Protein and include after my substrate

[gmx-users] Generating topology for a HEM protein with CHARMM27

2016-05-12 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear gmx users, I'm working on simulating a homodimer with its cofactors (hem, THG) and its substrate with GROMACS. Since my system is complex, I decided to start first with a monomere taking only protein residues and the hem group. When I run pdb2gmx, using CHARMM27 FF, I had this error:

[gmx-users] Generating topology for a heme protein

2016-05-12 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear gmx users, I'm working on simulating a homodimer with two cofactors (hem and tetrahydrofolat) and its substrate. My system is complex so I decided to build my topology file step by step; starting with the protein and the heme (and see if it works). I run pdb2gmx, with CHARMM 27 FF on

[gmx-users] Generating topology for Tetrahydrofolate within CHARMM ff

2016-05-02 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear gmx users, I'm working on simulating a protein with two cofactors (hem and tetrahydrofolat) and its substrate. I'm in the first stage; generating topology. I choose CHARMM27 as a force field and I'm little bit confused on how to generate tetrahydrofolate's topology. I tried the

[gmx-users] Generating topology for Tetrahydrofolate within CHARMM ff

2016-05-02 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear gmx users, I'm working on simulating a protein with two cofactors (hem and tetrahydrofolat) and its substrate. I'm in the first stage; generating topology. I choose CHARMM27 as a force field and I'm little bit confused on how to generate tetrahydrofolate's topology. I tried the online

Re: [gmx-users] Choosing water molecules and box type and dimensions

2016-05-02 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear all, Thank your for your answers. @ Justin, Actually I was hesitating between CHARMM and Amber force fields, I hadn't enough informations from my tutors. Finally I'm going with CHARMM 27, it is the most convenient in my case. Thank you again for your orientation. Zeineb.

Re: [gmx-users] Choosing water molecules and box type and dimensions

2016-04-29 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Dear all, Thank your for your answers. @ Justin, Where can I found informations related to the compatibility of one water type with the force field that I choose for my protein? in other words "where can I found information about the water type that had been used for the parametrisation

[gmx-users] Choosing water molecules and box type and dimensions

2016-04-29 Thread zeineb SI CHAIB
Hi, I'm working on a protein and two cofactors and one substrate, I have too simulate all this system on GROMACS. I'm in the first stage: choosing a force field, box type and dimensions, water molecules...etc. I would like to know more about the water molecule types (I looked on the