Re: [gmx-users] g_dipole ? = dipole moment ?

2010-10-18 Thread David van der Spoel
On 2010-10-18 03.30, Chih-Ying Lin wrote: HI I confined one molecule in the center of box and issue the g_dipole command. The average dipole moment is still around 32. It is the molecule with 33 atoms / united atoms of most carbon groups, isn't the dipole moment around 32 too high? How can I

Re: [gmx-users] How does g_msd calculates MSD?

2010-10-18 Thread Javier Cerezo
Hello Julian. I've not gone though the C-code neither. However, from what I have read and understood about MSD calculation, both calculations you proposed should not give the same results. This is the way it is calculated. 1. You take different starting times over tyour trajectory, every

[gmx-users] Simulation parameter problem about protein unfolding

2010-10-18 Thread Chen
At 2010-10-18 12:56:31,chris.ne...@utoronto.ca wrote: Generally, forcefields are not parameterized for temperatures other than 298K, so simulations are not expected to reproduce the expected properties (like boiling water and the correct temperature denaturation of proteins). There's

[gmx-users] Re: gmx-users Digest, Vol 78, Issue 123

2010-10-18 Thread Gerrit Groenhof
3. Simulation parameter problem about protein unfolding (Chen) Hi, You write it yourself: In paper you mention, they have used a 0.8 nm cutoff range for both electrostatics and cutoff. You are doing something different by using PME for the electrostatics. Also you are using a much

Re: [gmx-users] Simulation parameter problem about protein unfolding

2010-10-18 Thread David van der Spoel
On 2010-10-18 06.56, chris.ne...@utoronto.ca wrote: Generally, forcefields are not parameterized for temperatures other than 298K, so simulations are not expected to reproduce the expected properties (like boiling water and the correct temperature denaturation of proteins). There's almost

[gmx-users] residence time of water molecule and life time of hydrogen

2010-10-18 Thread atila petrosian
Hi gromacs users I am beginner in gromacs. I did md simulation of a protein by gromacs and now I want to obtain residence time of water molecule and life time of hydrogen bonds. Can I obtain both of them using gromacs? please guide me by detail. -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org

Re: [gmx-users] residence time of water molecule and life time of hydrogen

2010-10-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
atila petrosian wrote: Hi gromacs users I am beginner in gromacs. I did md simulation of a protein by gromacs and now I want to obtain residence time of water molecule and life time of hydrogen bonds. Can I obtain both of them using gromacs? please guide me by detail. Start by searching

[gmx-users] simulation of a protein including calcium ion

2010-10-18 Thread leila karami
Dear Justin thanks for your attention in my case calcium ion is bonded to 4 oxygen atoms of C=O group of protein. yes, Calcium ions are present in nearly all the force fields in Gromacs. but there are only parameters in * nb.itp and not in * bon.itp. how to obtain these new parameters for my

Re: [gmx-users] simulation of a protein including calcium ion

2010-10-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
leila karami wrote: Dear Justin thanks for your attention in my case calcium ion is bonded to 4 oxygen atoms of C=O group of protein. yes, Calcium ions are present in nearly all the force fields in Gromacs. but there are only parameters in * nb.itp and not in * bon.itp. how to obtain

[gmx-users] residence time of water molecule and life time of hydrogen

2010-10-18 Thread atila petrosian
*Dear Justin* ** *I read manual and specially g_hbond. but manual doesn't gime me information about * residence time of water molecule and life time of hydrogen. -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at

Re: [gmx-users] residence time of water molecule and life time of hydrogen

2010-10-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
atila petrosian wrote: *Dear Justin* ** *I read manual and specially g_hbond. but manual doesn't gime me information about * residence time of water molecule and life time of hydrogen. The more important piece of advice I gave you was to search the mailing list archive. This same

[gmx-users] simulation of a protein including calcium ion

2010-10-18 Thread leila karami
Dear Justin Is there any way for this problem? -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/Search before posting! Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the

Re: [gmx-users] residence time of water molecule and life time of hydrogen

2010-10-18 Thread Mark Abraham
On 18/10/2010 10:15 PM, atila petrosian wrote: *Dear Justin* ** *I read manual and specially g_hbond. but manual doesn't gime me information about * residence time of water molecule and life time of hydrogen. In your reading, did you see that g_hbond has a -life option? Did you try

Re: [gmx-users] simulation of a protein including calcium ion

2010-10-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
leila karami wrote: Dear Justin Is there any way for this problem? Please keep Tsjerk's comments (http://lists.gromacs.org/pipermail/gmx-users/2010-October/054938.html) in mind. If the calcium coordination complex plays only a minor structural role, you can probably justify using

[gmx-users] Reg: Running Energy minimisation for dichloroethane (DCE)

2010-10-18 Thread vinothkumar mohanakrishnan
Hi all i added new atomtype for dichloroethane (DCE) and added the corresponding parameters in the .rtp, .atp, .bon.itp, .nb.itp respectively. given below are my additions to the corresponding files respectively. *ffoplsaa.rtp* [ DCE ] [ atoms ] CLAA opls_967 -0.2270 1 CAB opls_966

Re: [gmx-users] Reg: Running Energy minimisation for dichloroethane (DCE)

2010-10-18 Thread Mark Abraham
On 18/10/2010 10:31 PM, vinothkumar mohanakrishnan wrote: Hi all i added new atomtype for dichloroethane (DCE) and added the corresponding parameters in the .rtp, .atp, .bon.itp, .nb.itp respectively. given below are my additions to the corresponding files respectively. *ffoplsaa.rtp* [

Re: [gmx-users] Reg: Running Energy minimisation for dichloroethane (DCE)

2010-10-18 Thread vinothkumar mohanakrishnan
Dear Mark I generated the topology using pdb2gmx using dce.pdb. i checked the .top file and i contains necessary .itp files. the error message that i get is given below. any help is highly appreciated. Program grompp, VERSION 4.0.7 Source code file: toppush.c, line: 620 Fatal error: Unknown

Re: [gmx-users] The trouble with dihedral restraints: frozen peptide backbones

2010-10-18 Thread ms
On 18/10/10 03:30, Mark Abraham wrote: To enforce chirality in such a toy, I thought that a simple (naive?) but functional idea could be that of enforcing a not- too-hard and wide-bottomed dihedral restrain on the phi angle, like that: [ dihedral_restraints ] ; ai ajak al type label

Re: [gmx-users] Reg: Running Energy minimisation for dichloroethane (DCE)

2010-10-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
vinothkumar mohanakrishnan wrote: Hi all i added new atomtype for dichloroethane (DCE) and added the corresponding parameters in the .rtp, .atp, .bon.itp, .nb.itp respectively. given below are my additions to the corresponding files respectively. *ffoplsaa.rtp* [ DCE ] [ atoms ] CLAA

Re: [gmx-users] The trouble with dihedral restraints: frozen peptide backbones

2010-10-18 Thread ms
On 18/10/10 03:30, Mark Abraham wrote: To enforce chirality in such a toy, I thought that a simple (naive?) but functional idea could be that of enforcing a not- too-hard and wide-bottomed dihedral restrain on the phi angle, like that: [ dihedral_restraints ] ; ai ajak al type label

Re: [gmx-users] Reg: Running Energy minimisation for dichloroethane (DCE)

2010-10-18 Thread ms
On 18/10/10 12:49, vinothkumar mohanakrishnan wrote: Dear Mark I generated the topology using pdb2gmx using dce.pdb. i checked the .top file and i contains necessary .itp files. the error message that i get is given below. any help is highly appreciated. What Mark meant is that you should

[gmx-users] Re: Amber to gromacs topology conversion for non-amino acid

2010-10-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Please keep all Gromacs-related correspondence on the gmx-users list. As I have said many times, I am not a private tutor. I am CC'ing this message to the list; please continue all further discussion there. There are a number of topology-generating scripts on the Gromacs website. Have a

Re: [gmx-users] The trouble with dihedral restraints: frozen peptide backbones

2010-10-18 Thread Mark Abraham
On 18/10/2010 10:53 PM, ms wrote: On 18/10/10 03:30, Mark Abraham wrote: To enforce chirality in such a toy, I thought that a simple (naive?) but functional idea could be that of enforcing a not- too-hard and wide-bottomed dihedral restrain on the phi angle, like that: [ dihedral_restraints ]

Re: [gmx-users] The trouble with dihedral restraints: frozen peptide backbones

2010-10-18 Thread ms
On 18/10/10 13:06, Mark Abraham wrote: On 18/10/2010 10:53 PM, ms wrote: On 18/10/10 03:30, Mark Abraham wrote: To enforce chirality in such a toy, I thought that a simple (naive?) but functional idea could be that of enforcing a not- too-hard and wide-bottomed dihedral restrain on the phi

Re: [gmx-users] Reg: Running Energy minimisation for dichloroethane (DCE)

2010-10-18 Thread vinothkumar mohanakrishnan
Dear Justin what corrections i should make to ffoplsaan.itp to make it correct. what i should give instead of CAB and CLAA?. i copied the .rtp .atp .itp files from usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top to my working directory and added these parameters to the corresponding files. what you mean is

Re: [gmx-users] The trouble with dihedral restraints: frozen peptide backbones

2010-10-18 Thread ms
On 18/10/10 13:06, Mark Abraham wrote: On 18/10/2010 10:53 PM, ms wrote: On 18/10/10 03:30, Mark Abraham wrote: To enforce chirality in such a toy, I thought that a simple (naive?) but functional idea could be that of enforcing a not- too-hard and wide-bottomed dihedral restrain on the phi

[gmx-users] about sa_surface_tension

2010-10-18 Thread Christian Mücksch
Dear all, when using implicit solvent models, the sa_surface_tension parameter is set to 2.092 kJ/mol/nm2 by default. However in Gromacs benchmarks with dihydrofolate reductase this parameter is set to 2.25936. Can someone please explain this parameter and in how far this would change

Re: [gmx-users] Reg: Running Energy minimisation for dichloroethane (DCE)

2010-10-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
vinothkumar mohanakrishnan wrote: Dear Justin what corrections i should make to ffoplsaan.itp to make it correct. what i should give instead of CAB and CLAA?. You must use atom types, not names. Unfortunately, you've chosen to use atom names, which are also types, which makes all of

Re: [gmx-users] about sa_surface_tension

2010-10-18 Thread Per Larsson
Hi! This is unfortunately a bit confusing, but prior to the release of 4.5.2 gromacs did not use the value of the sa_surface_tension that was specified in the mdp-file. It was always set to 2.092, and then hardcode to take a certain value (other than 2.092) depending on the GB-model. 2.25936

[gmx-users] Simulation parameter problem about protein unfolding

2010-10-18 Thread Chen
At 2010-10-18 16:38:30,David van der Spoel sp...@xray.bmc.uu.se wrote: On 2010-10-18 06.56, chris.ne...@utoronto.ca wrote: Generally, forcefields are not parameterized for temperatures other than 298K, so simulations are not expected to reproduce the expected properties (like boiling water

[gmx-users] Simulation parameter problem about protein unfolding

2010-10-18 Thread chris . neale
Thanks David. I think that we're saying the same thing, but there is indeed a 'correct' denatured state at a given temperature and pressure and protein concentration and salt concentration, etc. It was this to which I was referring. Chris. On 2010-10-18 06.56, chris.neale at utoronto.ca

[gmx-users] Simulation parameter problem about protein unfolding

2010-10-18 Thread chris . neale
Chen, to answer this, please see David's post and my reply. To answer if your unfolded state ensemble is accurate, you will need to know some experimentally evaluated quantities of the state that you are trying to reproduce: 498K, 26 atm, a certain amount of salt, etc, (but not including

[gmx-users] Backing up trajectories

2010-10-18 Thread Esztermann, Ansgar
Hi everyone, I am just wondering how backups of Gromacs trajectories are handled out there. We are using TSM. The system is very reliable, but it does not scale well in conjunction with Gromacs: trajectories can get very large when -append is used (dozens of Gigabytes), but TSM cannot do

Re: [gmx-users] Simulation parameter problem about protein unfolding

2010-10-18 Thread ms
On 18/10/10 13:12, Chen wrote: At 2010-10-18 16:38:30??David van der Spoelsp...@xray.bmc.uu.se wrote: On 2010-10-18 06.56, chris.ne...@utoronto.ca wrote: Generally, forcefields are not parameterized for temperatures other than 298K, so simulations are not expected to reproduce the expected

[gmx-users] Intrinsically disordered proteins

2010-10-18 Thread #ZHAO LINA#
Hi, 1. For those intrinsically disordered proteins, the sequence is known, how the simulations will be set up, I mean, the first PDB will be needed, how to get this one? (Ideally, not necessarily to be practical) 2. suppose I got a PDB, there were several models there, let's say 16, is it

Re: [gmx-users] Intrinsically disordered proteins

2010-10-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
#ZHAO LINA# wrote: Hi, 1. For those intrinsically disordered proteins, the sequence is known, how the simulations will be set up, I mean, the first PDB will be needed, how to get this one? (Ideally, not necessarily to be practical)

RE: [gmx-users] Intrinsically disordered proteins

2010-10-18 Thread #ZHAO LINA#
Hi, 1. Thanks for the webpage you provided, I noticed there is a avogadro there, and right now coincidently I have a question relevant to the avogadro, When I tried the avogadro-packmol-extensions, I had installed the avogadro and packmol well, but I do not know where the avogadro

Re: [gmx-users] position restraints and out of bounds atom index

2010-10-18 Thread Alexandre Suman de Araujo
Since anybody helped me with this issue and I solved the problem, I'll report the solution here to contribute with the comunity. As I pointed in the original e-mail, the problem was the difference between the numbering scheme of .gro file and .itp file. I created 3 .pdb files, one for each

[gmx-users] Energy Minimization

2010-10-18 Thread Sai Pooja
Hi all, I am using CHARMM forcefield with tables for Protein SOL interactions for alanine dipeptide. Tables supplied: table.xvg, table_Protein_SOL.xvg, tablep.xvg (Standard tables for 6-12 interactions used) Combination rule changed from '2' to '1' in forcefield.itp file. In the energy

[gmx-users] gromacs installation problem

2010-10-18 Thread MoJie Duan
Hi everyone, I met a problem in the installation of gromacs-4.5. There isn’t any mistake in the configuration step, but in the “make” step, it exit with the error: make[4]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/incluDe/gnu/stubs-64.h', needed by `sgetri.lo'. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory

Re: [gmx-users] editconf

2010-10-18 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, I am trying to rotate my protein in my simulation box (solvent molecules are there as well). I issue the following command: editconf_d_mpi -f AFPIII_Ih0001_54_26_em.gro -n protein.ndx -rotate 15 180 0 -o AFPIII_Ih0001_54_26_rotated.gro -box 5.40022 6.23564 20.59328 I select my group

Re: [gmx-users] editconf

2010-10-18 Thread Mark Abraham
On 19/10/2010 8:11 AM, Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Hello, I am trying to rotate my protein in my simulation box (solvent molecules are there as well). I issue the following command: editconf_d_mpi -f AFPIII_Ih0001_54_26_em.gro -n protein.ndx -rotate 15 180 0 -o AFPIII_Ih0001_54_26_rotated.gro -box

Re: [gmx-users] editconf

2010-10-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Payman Pirzadeh wrote: After rotation, wouldn't a minimization with very very small steps solve the problem? If any atoms overlap, you can't count on this working. It would be hit or miss. The proper way to build the system would be to orient the solute, then fill the box with solvent.

Re: [gmx-users] editconf

2010-10-18 Thread Mark Abraham
On 19/10/2010 12:22 PM, Payman Pirzadeh wrote: After rotation, wouldn't a minimization with very very small steps solve the problem? Only if the solute surface was very close to being symmetric about the rotation axis. Since that never happens, editconf doesn't even have the ability to try.

RE: [gmx-users] editconf

2010-10-18 Thread Payman Pirzadeh
Dear Mark and Justin, Thanks for very informative comments. I'll try to rotate and then solvate. Paymon -Original Message- From: gmx-users-boun...@gromacs.org [mailto:gmx-users-boun...@gromacs.org] On Behalf Of Mark Abraham Sent: October 18, 2010 7:26 PM To: Discussion list for GROMACS

[gmx-users] g_dipole ? = Calculate bond dipole moment for a molecule of multiple atoms by hand?

2010-10-18 Thread Chih-Ying Lin
Hi According to the following website, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_dipole_moment [image: \mu = \delta \, d]. The bond dipole is modeled as +δ -- δ- with a distance *d* between the partial charges http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_charges +δ and δ-. For a complete molecule the total