Re: [gmx-users] Effect of refcoord_scaling

2012-09-06 Thread Erik Marklund
Hi, Although your preparations seem sensible and a good starting point for stable simulations, I suspect that the source of the error is in your mdp-file or in how you constructed your simulation box. I've simulated complexes like yours for hundreds of nanoseconds without problems. Could you

Re: [gmx-users] Effect of refcoord_scaling

2012-09-06 Thread Matthias Ernst
Hi Erik, I guess you want to see the production mdp file. Here it is: ; VARIOUS PREPROCESSING OPTIONS title= Production Simulation cpp = /lib/cpp define = -DPOSRES_DNA ; RUN CONTROL PARAMETERS integrator = md tinit

[gmx-users] Effect of refcoord_scaling

2012-09-06 Thread Christopher Neale
The problem could be gen_vel=no if you are not loading velocities that are consistent with your production temperature of 200 K. If, for example, you do not load any velocities at all, then the initial forces will quickly be scaled up to reach 200 K and this can cause large scale

Re: [gmx-users] Effect of refcoord_scaling

2012-09-06 Thread Matthias Ernst
The problem could be gen_vel=no if you are not loading velocities that are consistent with your production temperature of 200 K. If, for example, you do not load any velocities at all, then the initial forces will quickly be scaled up to reach 200 K and this can cause large scale

[gmx-users] Effect of refcoord_scaling

2012-09-06 Thread Christopher Neale
down the problem and having a reliable simulation system by the time of your presentation. Chris. -- original message -- Matthias Ernst Matthias.Ernst2 at student.kit.edu Thu Sep 6 17:55:43 CEST 2012 Previous message: [gmx-users] Effect of refcoord_scaling Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread

[gmx-users] Effect of refcoord_scaling

2012-09-05 Thread Christopher Neale
refcoord_scaling is only required when you are also using positions restraints. Therefore we need to know what exactly you are doing with position restraints in order to provide the most useful advice. Nevertheless, you ran 2 simulations and got different results. It is not prudent to assign

[gmx-users] Effect of refcoord_scaling

2012-09-05 Thread Christopher Neale
As a side note: I would be very interested to know what type of artefacts one might expect when using refcoord_scaling=no with pressure coupling. I have no doubt that the description in the manual is accurate, but it is also kind of cryptic to those of us who don't already understand it. Thank

Re: [gmx-users] Effect of refcoord_scaling

2012-09-05 Thread Matthias Ernst
Hi Chris, thank you for your answer. Let me comment on some of your hints. refcoord_scaling is only required when you are also using positions restraints. Therefore we need to know what exactly you are doing with position restraints in order to provide the most useful advice. Yup, that's right,

[gmx-users] Effect of refcoord_scaling

2012-09-04 Thread Matthias Ernst
Dear Gromacs users, I am currently working on Protein-DNA-complexes. They should be simulated in NPT-ensemble. I did the same simulation including previous minimization steps (in vacuo, with solvent, with solvent and ions) and equilibration (system position restrained, with theromstate, with