Re: [gmx-users] charm in gromacs

2012-05-18 Thread Mark Abraham
On 18/05/2012 2:52 AM, francesco oteri wrote: Dear gromacs users, I am trying to port a set of charm parameter in gromacs. I am using the script convert_charmm_to_gromacs.pl http://convert_charmm_to_gromacs.pl contained in the file charmm_to_gromacs.tgz

Re: [gmx-users] What is the subroutine for SHAKE or RATTLE? Thanks.

2012-05-18 Thread Mark Abraham
On 17/05/2012 11:48 AM, kevin wrote: Thanks. I think I should have a look at some specific documents to understand the flow of control. Namely, to understand what is purpose of the subroutines in src/mdlib/. But I could not find such information in the Gromacs user manual. Do anyone know

Re: [gmx-users] grompp error - incorrect number of parameters

2012-05-18 Thread Mark Abraham
On 17/05/2012 11:47 PM, Lara Bunte wrote: Hello After grompp -f em.mdp -p topol.top -c solvated.gro -o em.tpr I got the error: Incorrect number of parameters - found 2, expected 4 or 4 for U-B. I thought that this could be an inconsistency be declaring the functions, but in my topology

[gmx-users] Regarding errors.

2012-05-18 Thread Seera Suryanarayana
Dear all, While i am running gromacs software i am getting following error.Let me know how to over come that error Fatal error: number of coordinates in coordinate file (208L_ion.gro, 62283) does not match topology (208L.top, 62293) Suryanarayana Seera, PhD student,

Re: [gmx-users] Regarding errors.

2012-05-18 Thread Mark Abraham
On 18/05/2012 4:43 PM, Seera Suryanarayana wrote: Dear all, While i am running gromacs software i am getting following error.Let me know how to over come that error Fatal error: number of coordinates in coordinate file (208L_ion.gro, 62283) does not match topology

[gmx-users] Regarding error.

2012-05-18 Thread Seera Suryanarayana
Dear all, While i am running gromacs software i am getting following error.Let me know that error how to over come. Fatal error: Residue 'CSD' not found in residue topology database Suryanarayana Seera, PhD student, Hyderabad, India. -- gmx-users mailing list

Re: [gmx-users] Regarding error.

2012-05-18 Thread Anirban
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Seera Suryanarayana paluso...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, While i am running gromacs software i am getting following error.Let me know that error how to over come. Fatal error: Residue 'CSD' not found in residue topology database First read:

Re: [gmx-users] Regarding error.

2012-05-18 Thread Mark Abraham
On 18/05/2012 4:50 PM, Seera Suryanarayana wrote: Dear all, While i am running gromacs software i am getting following error.Let me know that error how to over come. Fatal error: Residue 'CSD' not found in residue topology database Please search for your own answers before

Re: [gmx-users] repulsive interaction i and i+2

2012-05-18 Thread Mark Abraham
On 18/05/2012 6:14 AM, mohan maruthi sena wrote: Hi all, I have used a user define potential to describe attractive potential beyond i and i+3 atoms(similar to lLJ). If i want to describe repulsive interactions with in i and i+3 , how can i do it in gromacs? can anyone suggest me a

Re: [gmx-users] Force Constants and Unit Systems

2012-05-18 Thread Lara Bunte
Hi I have two questions left: 1.) You wrote If your term in question is an angle potential, then the force constant should indeed have units of energy Could you please explain this? Why is it here consistent to have Energy as unit for a force constant? 2.) The force constant is divided

Re: [gmx-users] What is the autocorrelation time

2012-05-18 Thread Patrick Fuchs
Hi Chris, I understand your question, this autocorrelation time puzzled me for a long time as well. Not far from the interpretation you give, Scott Feller defines it (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-519-0_7) as the time a given observable takes to lose the memory of its previous state,

Re: [gmx-users] Place water away from existing atoms

2012-05-18 Thread Steven Neumann
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: On 5/17/12 4:45 PM, Steven Neumann wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu mailto:jalem...@vt.edu wrote: On 5/17/12 11:50 AM, Steven Neumann wrote: My tube is finite.

Re: [gmx-users] Force Constants and Unit Systems

2012-05-18 Thread Richard Broadbent
On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 09:40 +0100, Lara Bunte wrote: Hi I have two questions left: 1.) You wrote If your term in question is an angle potential, then the force constant should indeed have units of energy Could you please explain this? Why is it here consistent to have Energy

Re: [gmx-users] charm in gromacs

2012-05-18 Thread francesco oteri
Hi, at the link http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40545409/charmm2itp.tgz you can find the files I am using Files ffcharmmnb.itp ffcharmmbon.itp have been generated through: convert_charmm_to_gromacs.pl par_all36_carb.prm while carbohydrates.rtp and carbohydrates.rtp through a script of mine. Now, if

Re: [gmx-users] Force Constants and Unit Systems

2012-05-18 Thread Lara Bunte
That helps a lot. Thank you, I guess I got it now :-) Greetings Lara - Ursprüngliche Message - Von: Richard Broadbent richard.broadben...@imperial.ac.uk An: Lara Bunte lara.bu...@yahoo.de; Discussion list for GROMACS users gmx-users@gromacs.org CC: jalem...@vt.edu jalem...@vt.edu

Re: [gmx-users] Water molecule cannot be settled

2012-05-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
On 5/18/12 6:58 AM, Steven Neumann wrote: Dear Gmx Users, My system consists of a Tube made of Oxygen, Hydrogen and ions. These atoms are not connected via bonds. I try tu run EM: ; minim.mdp - used as input into grompp to generate em.tpr ; Parameters describing what to do, when to stop and

[gmx-users] Re: What is the autocorrelation time

2012-05-18 Thread ABEL Stephane 175950
Hi Patrick, Your response is indeed more useful that my previous answer and with interesting links thank for the pointers Stephane -- Message: 4 Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 10:51:35 +0200 From: Patrick Fuchs patrick.fu...@univ-paris-diderot.fr Subject: Re:

Re: [gmx-users] Water molecule cannot be settled

2012-05-18 Thread Javier Cerezo
Hi Steven You've tried with constraints = none, but that still keeps constraints over water molecules through SETTLE algorithm. Maybe you can try a minimization with define = -DFLEXIBLE to remove settle over water and then try again a constraint (settle) minimization. Javier El 18/05/12

Re: [gmx-users] Regarding GROMACS interface with G03

2012-05-18 Thread Javier Cerezo
According to the roadmap that you mentioned, the first thing to do is to change a little bit some parts of the g03 code, and reinstalling it from this new source. So, you can do it only if your g03 license includes access to the source code. If not, you can try other QM packages, such as

[gmx-users] Re: Umbrella Profile

2012-05-18 Thread Steven Neumann
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: I have no idea why you observe the dip, but it's probably irrelevant as you don't need a reaction coordinate that long, if this is the same plot that we've been discussing on the list. I must ask that you always post

Re: [gmx-users] Water molecule cannot be settled

2012-05-18 Thread Steven Neumann
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: On 5/18/12 6:58 AM, Steven Neumann wrote: Dear Gmx Users, My system consists of a Tube made of Oxygen, Hydrogen and ions. These atoms are not connected via bonds. I try tu run EM: ; minim.mdp - used as input into

Re: [gmx-users] forcefields for lipids

2012-05-18 Thread Shima Arasteh
Dear gmx users, Imagine it's a protein-membrane system which GROMOS53a6 and CHARMM36 will give me the same acceptable output for a protein-membrane system. Now if I want to choose one, what am I supposed to chose? How can I have a good option? Any suggestion? Or any articles available? I guess

Re: [gmx-users] forcefields for lipids

2012-05-18 Thread Shima Arasteh
Dear gmx users, Imagine it's a protein-membrane system which GROMOS53a6 and CHARMM36 will give me the same acceptable output for it. Now if I want to choose one, what am I supposed to chose? How can I have a good option? Any suggestion? Or any articles available? I guess the CHARMM FF is

Re: [gmx-users] Water molecule cannot be settled

2012-05-18 Thread Steven Neumann
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Javier Cerezo j...@um.es wrote: Hi Steven You've tried with constraints = none, but that still keeps constraints over water molecules through SETTLE algorithm. Maybe you can try a minimization with define = -DFLEXIBLE to remove settle over water and then

[gmx-users] Re: Fwd: itp file problem

2012-05-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Please keep all Gromacs-related correspondence on the gmx-users list. I am not a private tutor and will soon be leaving for a trip and will have limited access to email, so relying on me for personal help is a bad choice at this time. On 5/18/12 9:30 AM, Sarath Kumar Baskaran wrote: Dear

[gmx-users] course grained fluorinated lipids martini mapping

2012-05-18 Thread maria goranovic
I have a fully fluorinated alkane, and am wondering how to choose the right atom-to-bead mapping. 4 CH2 groups form a C1 bead in Martini. Will CF2-CF2 (6 heavy atoms), also map to a C1 bead type? How does one go about making the right choice? Reading the paper suggests that one has to make

[gmx-users] dipole moment of a molecule

2012-05-18 Thread Milinda Samaraweera
Hi Guys Could you please explain to me how to use the g_dipole method to calculate the dipole moment of a Solute in a solvent. Thanks alot   Milinda Samaraweera University of Connecticut Department of Chemistry 55 N Eagleville road unit 3060 Storrs CT USA-- gmx-users mailing list

[gmx-users] tabulated potentials for dihedrals - regd

2012-05-18 Thread ramesh cheerla
Dear Gromacs users, I am using tabulated potentials for the dihedrals of my system, the dihedral function I am using is Summn over 'n' 0.5*K [ ( Cos n(phi-phi0)] , Here 1= n = 3 . The C-O-C-C dihedral of my system has three folds those are n= 1 , 2, 3 and three

[gmx-users] Different Lipids into one Moleculetype (for position restrain)

2012-05-18 Thread Ricardo O. S. Soares
Hi everybody, I'm working with a mixed membrane for the first time (POPC+POPE), and I want to restrain the all phosphors  (only Z axis).  However they belong to different [ moleculetype ] (ie. POPC and POPE), and GROMACS does not restrain more than one molecule type at a time. What implications

[gmx-users] BAR calculations with tabulated non-bonded potentials

2012-05-18 Thread Rustad, James R
Dear GMX users, I cannot figure out from the manual whether it is possible to use tabulated non-bonded potentials in a BAR calculation. I want to estimate the free energy for changing Fe2+ to Fe3+. These have different charges, of course, and also different non-bonded interactions. These

Re: [gmx-users] Different Lipids into one Moleculetype (for position restrain)

2012-05-18 Thread Jan Marzinek
Why dont you create index files of whatever types you want and then just use in your mdp: freezgrps (from index) and the corresponding directions N N Y Jan On 18 May 2012, at 20:56, Ricardo O. S. Soares ross_...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Hi everybody, I'm working with a mixed membrane for the

[gmx-users] intermolecular H bond selection

2012-05-18 Thread mu xiaojia
Hi gmx-users, I have a question might be explained before but I cannot understand from the previous , how to calculation the intermolecular h-bonds between two molecules? I saw someone mentioned using a second tpr file, but how to do it specifically? Thanks very much! Ja -- gmx-users mailing

Re: [gmx-users] Different Lipids into one Moleculetype (for position restrain)

2012-05-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
On 5/18/12 3:56 PM, Ricardo O. S. Soares wrote: Hi everybody, I'm working with a mixed membrane for the first time (POPC+POPE), and I want to restrain the all phosphors (only Z axis). However they belong to different [ moleculetype ] (ie. POPC and POPE), and GROMACS does not restrain more

Re: [gmx-users] BAR calculations with tabulated non-bonded potentials

2012-05-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
On 5/18/12 4:21 PM, Rustad, James R wrote: Dear GMX users, I cannot figure out from the manual whether it is possible to use tabulated non-bonded potentials in a BAR calculation. I want to estimate the free energy for changing Fe2+ to Fe3+. These have different charges, of course, and also

Re: [gmx-users] intermolecular H bond selection

2012-05-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
On 5/18/12 7:22 PM, mu xiaojia wrote: Hi gmx-users, I have a question might be explained before but I cannot understand from the previous , how to calculation the intermolecular h-bonds between two molecules? I saw someone mentioned using a second tpr file, but how to do it specifically?

[gmx-users] What is the autocorrelation time

2012-05-18 Thread Christopher Neale
Thank you very much Patrick. This is exactly what I was looking for. Based on what you sent, I'm going to go with the following text in my work: The value of tau_int is approximately half of the amount of time required, on average, to obtain a statistically independent (decorrelated) sample

[gmx-users] forcefields for lipids

2012-05-18 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Shima: I don't believe that anybody knows what lipid forcefield is best for the study of ion conduction through a membrane channel, or if it even matters. My instinct is that, for the timescales that you are likely going to use, the particular lipid forcefield that you select is not going

[gmx-users] What is the autocorrelation time

2012-05-18 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Erik: I thought about your comment for a while and I have come to understand that you are correct. The exponential (or integral) autocorrelation time is a mathematical construct and is defined as such. What I was looking for was an interpretation of the autocorrelation time in terms of

Re: [gmx-users] Different Lipids into one Moleculetype (for position restrain)

2012-05-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
On 5/18/12 10:28 PM, Peter C. Lai wrote: Synopsis: position restraints are coupled to the moleculetype. So you need to define position restraints individually for each molecule type contiguous with their topologies. There's a couple of ways to do it, using some simple #include and #define:

Re: [gmx-users] Different Lipids into one Moleculetype (for position restrain)

2012-05-18 Thread Peter C. Lai
Thanks for the corrections. I had to mock up parts of it because usually I only POSRE_RECEPTOR and POSRE_LIGAND. I also have a mix of putting the position restraints in .itp file vs. in the topol.top, depending on how often I am changing my topol.top (things like genion and g_membed modify them).

Re: [gmx-users] forcefields for lipids

2012-05-18 Thread Shima Arasteh
Dear Christopher, Thanks for your kind reply. :-)   Sincerely, Shima From: Christopher Neale chris.ne...@mail.utoronto.ca To: gmx-users@gromacs.org gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 6:19 AM Subject: [gmx-users] forcefields for lipids Dear