[gmx-users] Re: Constraints not working in pull code (sometimes, sometimes not)

2011-09-06 Thread Krapnik
Dear all, I have reported a week ago update about my troubles with octanol/water slab and pulling simulations, where COM code starts to report a wrong distances between centre-of-masses between two groups when bigger box (see bellow) is used. So far, smaller box cured our actual calculation

[gmx-users] Force a gromacs tool to write step-by-step a result in a xvg file

2011-09-06 Thread intra\sa175950
Dear All I use the g_clustersize to examine the cluster decay vs. time during the aggregation process of glycolipids into a micelle with the following command: $WORKDIR/gromacs-4.5.3/bin/g_clustsize_mpi -f *.xtc -s run_1.tpr -mc bDM-AMBER99SB-ILDN-Self_b_cluster.xvg -nc

Re: [gmx-users] Force a gromacs tool to write step-by-step a result in a xvg file

2011-09-06 Thread Dommert Florian
Hi, I would suggest you extract the single snapshot from your xtc file and then run the analysis tool on the single snapshot file. /Flo On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 12:12 +0200, intra\sa175950 wrote: Dear All I use the g_clustersize to examine the cluster decay vs. time during the

[gmx-users] constant PH simulations

2011-09-06 Thread fancy2012
Dear gmx users, Are there some tutorials on constant PH simulations using gromacs? How should I state my work? Right now I have no idea on it. -- Best wishes, Qinghua Liao Ph.D student of Tianjin University, China-- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org

Re: [gmx-users] constant PH simulations

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
fancy2012 wrote: Dear gmx users, Are there some tutorials on constant PH simulations using gromacs? How should I state my work? Right now I have no idea on it. Interestingly enough, there is a page devoted to this topic on the Gromacs wiki:

Antw: [gmx-users] constant PH simulations

2011-09-06 Thread Emanuel Peter
Look for the pKa-constants of each part of your system (e.g. each amino-acid). Then you can check each protonation state and change it according to your application in the force-field. Emanuel fancy2012 06.09.11 13.01 Uhr Dear gmx users, Are there some tutorials on constant PH simulations

[gmx-users] analysis tools

2011-09-06 Thread Namd Namd
Dear All, I’m a new NAMD user and use NAMD and VMD for simulations. I want to ask a question about trajectory analysis. I examined the gromacs 4.5.4 tools for making analysis and decided to use some of them for my NAMD output files. Is there a way to convert my namd output files into gromacs

Re: [gmx-users] analysis tools

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Namd Namd wrote: Dear All, I’m a new NAMD user and use NAMD and VMD for simulations. I want to ask a question about trajectory analysis. I examined the gromacs 4.5.4 tools for making analysis and decided to use some of them for my NAMD output files. Is there a way to convert my namd output

Re: [gmx-users] constant PH simulations

2011-09-06 Thread João M . Damas
That is not considered constant-pH MD. Follow Justin's suggestion. Cheers, João On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Emanuel Peter emanuel.pe...@chemie.uni-regensburg.de wrote: Look for the pKa-constants of each part of your system (e.g. each amino-acid). Then you can check each protonation

[gmx-users] Constraints not working in pull code (sometimes, sometimes not)

2011-09-06 Thread chris . neale
Are you 100% sure that you have the correct index group for your large box? Did you use a .ndx file that you prepared as input to mdrun or did you rely on the creation of a standard group? If you relied on the creation of a standard group, can you please try again with the larger box and a

Re: [gmx-users] atom type OXT

2011-09-06 Thread Mark Abraham
On 6/09/2011 11:39 AM, Sweta Iyer wrote: Hi all, I have been trying to pdbgmx my protein to obtain the gro and top files as follows: pdb2gmx -f ${MOL}.pdb -o ${MOL}.gro -p ${MOL}.top -ter -ignh However, I get an error message that states: Atom OXT in residue SER 29 was not found in rtp

Antw: Re: [gmx-users] constant PH simulations

2011-09-06 Thread Emanuel Peter
Could you just tell me smth. ! No forcefield on whole earth is able to reproduce the pH realistically by H+. You just can apply pH of your system through the protonation states of each part in your system. monkey. João M. Damas 06.09.11 14.22 Uhr That is not considered constant-pH MD.

Re: Antw: Re: [gmx-users] constant PH simulations

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Emanuel Peter wrote: Could you just tell me smth. ! No forcefield on whole earth is able to reproduce the pH realistically by H+. You just can apply pH of your system through the protonation states of each part in your system. Constant protonation state and constant pH are different.

Re: Re: [gmx-users] constant PH simulations

2011-09-06 Thread João M . Damas
As Justin said, constant protonation != constant pH. Constant-pH MD does not simulate H+, but allows changes in protonation states during the MD simulation. There are different algorithms to accomplish that. Cheers, João On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Emanuel Peter

[gmx-users] Average no of hbonds

2011-09-06 Thread Steven Neumann
Dear Gromacs Users, I am calculating hbonds between my 10 ligands and each residue... How does Gromacs calculate average number of hbonds per timeframe? Example: for Glycine: Av. num of hbonds/timeframe 0.96 To check whether that is correct I added all hbonds formed with Glycine during my

Re: Yan: [gmx-users] analysis tools

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Namd Namd wrote: Dear Justin, Well , I think that I can do it , can't I ? I have gromacs 4.0.7 and VMD 1.8.7 . how can I make analysis using NAMD output files with these You can't do it with 4.0.7, only the 4.5.x series has the capability to use VMD libraries. Your first message said

Re: [gmx-users] Average no of hbonds

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Steven Neumann wrote: Dear Gromacs Users, I am calculating hbonds between my 10 ligands and each residue... How does Gromacs calculate average number of hbonds per timeframe? Example: for Glycine: Av. num of hbonds/timeframe 0.96 To check whether that is correct I added all hbonds

Antw: Re: Re: [gmx-users] constant PH simulations

2011-09-06 Thread Emanuel Peter
The standard procedure of H+ interchange and transition states can be done through QM/MM. Please give one reference according to the algorithms you have mentioned. Cheers. João M. Damas 06.09.11 15.19 Uhr As Justin said, constant protonation != constant pH. Constant-pH MD does not simulate

Re: [gmx-users] Average no of hbonds

2011-09-06 Thread Mark Abraham
On 6/09/2011 11:37 PM, Steven Neumann wrote: Dear Gromacs Users, I am calculating hbonds between my 10 ligands and each residue... How does Gromacs calculate average number of hbonds per timeframe? Example: for Glycine: Av. num of hbonds/timeframe 0.96 To check whether that is correct I added

Re: Antw: Re: Re: [gmx-users] constant PH simulations

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Emanuel Peter wrote: The standard procedure of H+ interchange and transition states can be done through QM/MM. Please give one reference according to the algorithms you have mentioned. There are several cited at: http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Constant_pH_Simulation -Justin

Re: [gmx-users] Average no of hbonds

2011-09-06 Thread Steven Neumann
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.auwrote: On 6/09/2011 11:37 PM, Steven Neumann wrote: Dear Gromacs Users, I am calculating hbonds between my 10 ligands and each residue... How does Gromacs calculate average number of hbonds per timeframe? Example: for

Re: [gmx-users] Average no of hbonds

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Steven Neumann wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au mailto:mark.abra...@anu.edu.au wrote: On 6/09/2011 11:37 PM, Steven Neumann wrote: Dear Gromacs Users, I am calculating hbonds between my 10 ligands and each residue...

Re: [gmx-users] Average no of hbonds

2011-09-06 Thread Steven Neumann
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Steven Neumann wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.aumailto: mark.abra...@anu.edu.**au mark.abra...@anu.edu.au wrote: On 6/09/2011 11:37 PM, Steven Neumann wrote:

Re: [gmx-users] Average no of hbonds

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Steven Neumann wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu mailto:jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Steven Neumann wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au mailto:mark.abra...@anu.edu.au

[gmx-users] A question about simulating a box of ethane in GROMACS

2011-09-06 Thread Phil (Yang) Song
Hi, all I am learning GROMACS 4.5.1 recently and encountered a problem that puzzled me for weeks. I am wondering if someone can help me with this. Here is the problem: I was trying to perform a MD simulation for 216 ethane molecules in a box. I have first generated a box of ethane with random

Re: [gmx-users] A question about simulating a box of ethane in GROMACS

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Phil (Yang) Song wrote: Hi, all I am learning GROMACS 4.5.1 recently and encountered a problem that puzzled me for weeks. I am wondering if someone can help me with this. Here is the problem: I was trying to perform a MD simulation for 216 ethane molecules in a box. I have first generated

Re: [gmx-users] A question about simulating a box of ethane in GROMACS

2011-09-06 Thread Mark Abraham
On 7/09/2011 12:40 AM, Phil (Yang) Song wrote: Hi, all I am learning GROMACS 4.5.1 recently and encountered a problem that puzzled me for weeks. I am wondering if someone can help me with this. Here is the problem: I was trying to perform a MD simulation for 216 ethane molecules in a box. I

Antw: Re: Re: [gmx-users] constant PH simulations (Emanuel Peter)

2011-09-06 Thread Gerrit Groenhof
2. Antw: Re: Re: [gmx-users] constant PH simulations (Emanuel Peter) Message: 2 Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:49:28 +0200 From: Emanuel Peter emanuel.pe...@chemie.uni-regensburg.de Subject: Antw: Re: Re: [gmx-users] constant PH simulations To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Message-ID:

Re: Antw: Re: Re: [gmx-users] constant PH simulations

2011-09-06 Thread João Henriques
No forcefield on whole earth is able to reproduce the pH realistically by H+. You just can apply pH of your system through the protonation states of each part in your system. I guess someone has been living in a cave for the past decade or so... Cheers, -- João Henriques -- gmx-users mailing

[gmx-users] Freezing secondary structure

2011-09-06 Thread seunghwan lee
Hi All, I am trying to run simulations of a small protein with the backbone frozen, but not the side chains. It looks like neither position restraint run or defining freeze_group will work since these options will freeze atoms in space. I also noticed that I may define [dihedral_restraints]

Re: [gmx-users] Freezing secondary structure

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
seunghwan lee wrote: Hi All, I am trying to run simulations of a small protein with the backbone frozen, but not the side chains. It looks like neither position restraint run or defining freeze_group will work since these options will freeze atoms in space. I also noticed that I may define

[gmx-users] Gromacs 4.6?

2011-09-06 Thread Matthew Lardy
Hi, I am wondering when Gromacs will support OpenMM 3+ and my GPU architecture (S2050C Teslas)? I have been patiently waiting, and still haven't seen a new version (and yes, I have pulled back a development version from git). Still getting this nonsensical error from OpenMM2 and while OpenMM3

[gmx-users] missing parameters in auto-generated topology file?

2011-09-06 Thread Yun Shi
Hi all, I used pdb2gmx and selected amber99sb for generation of itp files of a normal peptide within GROMACS 4.5.4. But I saw that all the bonds, angles, and dihedral parameters (c0, c1, c2 ...) were not present in the itp file, while only funct is defined. It seems the same thing happens with

Re: [gmx-users] missing parameters in auto-generated topology file?

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Yun Shi wrote: Hi all, I used pdb2gmx and selected amber99sb for generation of itp files of a normal peptide within GROMACS 4.5.4. But I saw that all the bonds, angles, and dihedral parameters (c0, c1, c2 ...) were not present in the itp file, while only funct is defined. It seems the

[gmx-users] energy terms vs. temperature

2011-09-06 Thread Juliette N.
Dear users, I have a short question about temperature dependence of enregy terms i.e bonds, angles, torsions, vdw , electorstatics. I am curious why these energies increase with T. Especially bonded terms that have no temperature dependence in the functional form ( force constants), why all

Re: [gmx-users] energy terms vs. temperature

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Juliette N. wrote: Dear users, I have a short question about temperature dependence of enregy terms i.e bonds, angles, torsions, vdw , electorstatics. I am curious why these energies increase with T. Especially bonded terms that have no temperature dependence in the functional form ( force

Re: [gmx-users] A question about simulating a box of ethane in GROMACS

2011-09-06 Thread Phil (Yang) Song
Hi, Thank everyone for your suggestions. I have tried to put less molecule in a small box and find this works! Eventually I have solve the problem by using a larger initial box size for the random generated position and orientation. It seemed that the overall interaction of OPLS-AA between

Re: [gmx-users] energy terms vs. temperature

2011-09-06 Thread Juliette N.
On 6 September 2011 15:03, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Juliette N. wrote: Dear users, I have a short question about temperature dependence of enregy terms i.e bonds, angles, torsions, vdw , electorstatics. I am curious why these energies increase with T. Especially bonded

Re: [gmx-users] energy terms vs. temperature

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Juliette N. wrote: On 6 September 2011 15:03, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu mailto:jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Juliette N. wrote: Dear users, I have a short question about temperature dependence of enregy terms i.e bonds, angles, torsions, vdw ,

[gmx-users] gbsa.itp problem

2011-09-06 Thread Yao Yao
Hi All, when I grompp for energy minimization, I met the error like, -- Back Off! I just backed up mdout.mdp to ./#mdout.mdp.1# checking input for internal consistency... processing topology... Opening library file

Re: [gmx-users] gbsa.itp problem

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Yao Yao wrote: Hi All, when I grompp for energy minimization, I met the error like, -- Back Off! I just backed up mdout.mdp to ./#mdout.mdp.1# checking input for internal consistency... processing topology... Opening library file

Re: [gmx-users] gbsa.itp problem

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Yao Yao wrote: Hi Justin, Thanks for your reply. Is there a way I can use explicit water to get rid of the error? Solvate as you would any normal system and don't try to use force field files from newer versions. -Justin Thanks, Yao

Re: [gmx-users] gbsa.itp problem

2011-09-06 Thread Yao Yao
I mean if I still want to use the introduced amber03 ff, when I solvate it as normal, it asks for gbsa.itp, -- Fatal error: Library file gbsa.itp not found in current dir nor in default directories. (You can set the directories to search with the GMXLIB path variable) -- So

Re: [gmx-users] gbsa.itp problem

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Yao Yao wrote: I mean if I still want to use the introduced amber03 ff, when I solvate it as normal, it asks for gbsa.itp, -- Fatal error: Library file gbsa.itp not found in current dir nor in default directories. (You can set the directories to search with the GMXLIB path variable)

[gmx-users] Re: energy terms vs. temperature

2011-09-06 Thread Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban
Hello Juliette: If you observe such behavior, I would suggest just to decrease a time-step. You should have the same energies at all temperatures. The larger is a time-step, the larger is a deviation from the energy minimum (bonded potentials). The larger is the deviation, the higher

Re: [gmx-users] Re: energy terms vs. temperature

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban wrote: Hello Juliette: If you observe such behavior, I would suggest just to decrease a time-step. You should have the same energies at all temperatures. The larger is a time-step, the larger is a deviation from the energy minimum (bonded potentials). The larger is the

[gmx-users] Re: energy terms vs. temperature

2011-09-06 Thread Juliette N.
On 6 September 2011 15:42, Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Juliette: If you observe such behavior, I would suggest just to decrease a time-step. You should have the same energies at all temperatures. The larger is a time-step, the larger is a deviation from the energy

Re: [gmx-users] Re: energy terms vs. temperature

2011-09-06 Thread Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban
Justin, I was speaking only about the bonded (and presumably, harmonic) potentials. Decreasing the time-step, as I mentioned, never made the things worse. Vitaly On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban wrote: Hello Juliette: If you

Re: [gmx-users] Re: energy terms vs. temperature

2011-09-06 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban wrote: Justin, I was speaking only about the bonded (and presumably, harmonic) potentials. Decreasing the time-step, as I mentioned, never made the things worse. How is it that harmonic potentials are unaffected by temperature? Thermal excitation of bonds is a real

Re: Antw: Re: Re: [gmx-users] constant PH simulations

2011-09-06 Thread Mark Abraham
On 7/09/2011 3:53 AM, João Henriques wrote: I guess someone has been living in a cave for the past decade or so... Please keep contributions to the mailing list constructive :-) Everyone's been wrong before! Mark -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org

Re: [gmx-users] energy terms vs. temperature

2011-09-06 Thread Mark Abraham
On 7/09/2011 5:01 AM, Juliette N. wrote: Dear users, I have a short question about temperature dependence of enregy terms i.e bonds, angles, torsions, vdw , electorstatics. I am curious why these energies increase with T. Especially bonded terms that have no temperature dependence in the

Re: [gmx-users] A question about simulating a box of ethane in GROMACS

2011-09-06 Thread Mark Abraham
On 7/09/2011 5:23 AM, Phil (Yang) Song wrote: Hi, Thank everyone for your suggestions. I have tried to put less molecule in a small box and find this works! Eventually I have solve the problem by using a larger initial box size for the random generated position and orientation. It seemed

[gmx-users] Installation gromacs in Scientific Linux

2011-09-06 Thread Nathalia Garces
Hello, The last 6 months I've been working with gromacs (4.5.3 and 4.5.4) in Ubuntu (10.4) and it has worked fine. The problem started when I changed the linux distribution to Scientific Linux (5.3)... I followed the same steps to download/configure gromacs but something's wrong or missing

[gmx-users] Surface tension calculation of a bilayer with bilayer normal in y-direction

2011-09-06 Thread Shou-Chuang Yang
Dear gmx-users, I am pretty confused about how to calculate the surface tension of a bilayer which with its bilayer normal in y-direction rather than z-direction (as the default). How does the Surf*SurfTen option in g-energy work? Does it take z as a default bilayer normal? If so, how can I

[gmx-users] 3D pressure profile of a bilayer

2011-09-06 Thread Shou-Chuang Yang
Dear gmx-users, Could anyone help me with the calculation of 3D pressure profile in a function of y? I used the provided gromacs-4.0.2_localpressure for my calculatioin. It calculate the 3D pressure profile as a function of z (the default setting of bilayer normal is z-direction). In my case, I