Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein simulation: maintain protein in the box centre

2012-01-06 Thread Peter C. Lai
On 2012-01-06 05:40:24PM +, Anna Duncan wrote: In my analysis, I want to look at the minimum distance between each lipid 'atom' and the protein and, for each timepoint, record the residue or 'atom' in the protein that the lipid 'atom' is closest to. I can find the minimum distance

[gmx-users] Membrane protein simulation: maintain protein in the box centre

2012-01-06 Thread Anna Duncan
Hello, I'm really sorry, please ignore my last post. I realised after I posted it that my British way of spelling 'centre' might have been preventing me from finding many previous posts on the topic. Indeed, when I searched a bit it became apparent to me that all I need to do is use

[gmx-users] Membrane protein simulation

2011-09-18 Thread Sweta Iyer
Hi, I embedded my protein of interest into a DMPC membrane by the g_membed tool with the following command: g membed -f input.tpr -p system.top -n index.ndx -xyinit 0.1 -xyend 1.0 -nxy 1000 -zinit 1.1 -zend 1.0 -nz 100 I then energy minimized the resultant structure for 1 ns before the

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein simulation

2011-09-18 Thread Mark Abraham
On 19/09/2011 9:42 AM, Sweta Iyer wrote: Hi, I embedded my protein of interest into a DMPC membrane by the g_membed tool with the following command: g membed -f input.tpr -p system.top -n index.ndx -xyinit 0.1 -xyend 1.0 -nxy 1000 -zinit 1.1 -zend 1.0 -nz 100 I then energy minimized the

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein simulation

2011-09-18 Thread Michael Daily
Unfortunately genbox will put waters anywhere there is a space, including inside the membrane. This can easily be fixed by making a script to remove waters that are z +/- ~2 nm from the membrane center (you should run g_density on the system to figure out the optimal distance filter). You can

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein simulation

2011-09-18 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Michael Daily wrote: Unfortunately genbox will put waters anywhere there is a space, including inside the membrane. This can easily be fixed by making a script to remove waters that are z +/- ~2 nm from the membrane center (you should run g_density on the system to figure out the optimal

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein simulation

2011-09-18 Thread Shay Teaching
Also it is possible that there might be a problem with setting up the membrane. Have you tried running the membrane without protein? -Shay On Sep 19, 2011 3:32 AM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Michael Daily wrote: Unfortunately genbox will put waters anywhere there is a space,

[gmx-users] membrane protein

2011-03-09 Thread mohsen ramezanpour
Dear All in membrane protein tutorial: What is the P-N vector? RMSD for what group do I need to calculate? How can I estimate the helix tilt? Thanks in advance -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at

[gmx-users] membrane-protein

2011-03-08 Thread mohsen ramezanpour
Dear All doing membrane protein tutorial of Dr.Justin I have a few question, 1-Why do I need to know the stabilization state of my box vector? 2-How can I do this (with wich program?)? 3-What can I do if they were not stable? Thanks in advance Mohsen -- gmx-users mailing list

RE: [gmx-users] Membrane Protein Tutorial

2011-03-08 Thread Dallas Warren
-users-boun...@gromacs.org] On Behalf Of mohsen ramezanpour Sent: Wednesday, 9 March 2011 7:01 AM To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Subject: [gmx-users] Membrane Protein Tutorial Dear All doing membrane protein tutorial of Dr.Justin I have a few question, Please let me know their answers. 1

[gmx-users] membrane-protein tutorial

2011-03-07 Thread mohsen ramezanpour
Dear all I am doing Membrane -protein tutorial. Actually I did each step carefully,I could score down my lipids 26 times. But there were two problems: 1-I get ~77 A for area per lipid in 26th step not 71 as Dr.Justin has said 2-I tried to do more iteration to make closer my area per lipid to

Re: [gmx-users] membrane-protein tutorial

2011-03-07 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
mohsen ramezanpour wrote: Dear all I am doing Membrane -protein tutorial. Actually I did each step carefully,I could score down my lipids 26 times. But there were two problems: 1-I get ~77 A for area per lipid in 26th step not 71 as Dr.Justin has said 2-I tried to do more iteration to make

Re: [gmx-users] membrane-protein tutorial

2011-03-07 Thread mohsen ramezanpour
Dear Dr.Justin Yes,I know,it deleted some lipids according to inflateGRO script in the first timethat I used perl command. Besides: I did iteration 25 times correctly,and no addition or doubling was occured. I used the same commands of 25th iteration.of course I changed numberes from 25 to 26 in

Re: [gmx-users] membrane-protein tutorial

2011-03-07 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
mohsen ramezanpour wrote: Dear Dr.Justin Yes,I know,it deleted some lipids according to inflateGRO script in the first timethat I used perl command. Besides: I did iteration 25 times correctly,and no addition or doubling was occured. I used the same commands of 25th iteration.of course I

Re: [gmx-users] membrane-protein tutorial

2011-03-07 Thread mohsen ramezanpour
Dear Dr.justin Thank you.You are right. I did what you said. please let me know the answer of my other question in first email: I am doing iteration more than 26 times that you said in your tutorial. I am in 28th step now and my area per lipid is 63 and I think it is lowering everytimes I do

Re: [gmx-users] membrane-protein tutorial

2011-03-07 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
mohsen ramezanpour wrote: Dear Dr.justin Thank you.You are right. I did what you said. please let me know the answer of my other question in first email: I am doing iteration more than 26 times that you said in your tutorial. I am in 28th step now and my area per lipid is 63 and I think it is

Re: [gmx-users] membrane-protein tutorial

2011-03-07 Thread mohsen ramezanpour
Ok.Thank you very much On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: mohsen ramezanpour wrote: Dear Dr.justin Thank you.You are right. I did what you said. please let me know the answer of my other question in first email: I am doing iteration more than 26

[gmx-users] Membrane-protein tutorial

2011-03-07 Thread mohsen ramezanpour
Dear Dr.Justin Is there any criteria for choosing vdwradii for carbon atoms? Because I have changed it from 0.15 to 0.375,but there were afew water molecules,it is difficult to delete them manually. then I decided to increase the vdwradii to 0.450 it is better now but i think the gap between

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane-protein tutorial

2011-03-07 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
mohsen ramezanpour wrote: Dear Dr.Justin Is there any criteria for choosing vdwradii for carbon atoms? Because I have changed it from 0.15 to 0.375,but there were afew water molecules,it is difficult to delete them manually. then I decided to increase the vdwradii to 0.450 it is better now

[gmx-users] membrane protein-free energy

2010-09-07 Thread Poojari, Chetan
Hi, I have done MD simulations of membrane-protein. I want to calculate interaction energies between protein and headgroup, protein and hydrophobic core (in the bilayer). Please can anyone suggest me the method that should be followed to carry out these analysis. kind regards and best

Re: [gmx-users] membrane protein-free energy

2010-09-07 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Poojari, Chetan wrote: Hi, I have done MD simulations of membrane-protein. I want to calculate interaction energies between protein and headgroup, protein and hydrophobic core (in the bilayer). Please can anyone suggest me the method that should be followed to carry out these analysis.

[gmx-users] membrane protein tutorial information

2009-11-12 Thread irene farabella
Dear all, I am busy following the EMBO tutorial on membrane proteins (http://www.dddc.ac.cn/embo04/practicals/9_16.htm) but it is 2 days now that the server is down. Does anybody maybe know another url where I can find this tutorial? Thanks! Irene -- gmx-users mailing list

[gmx-users] membrane protein simulation

2009-05-29 Thread Samik Bhattacharya
hi  i'm new to gromacs and want to simulate a protein inside a phospholipid envelop (may be box or dodecahedron). for this i got the pdb files of both the proteins and the lipids(e.g.POPC, POPE etc). but i'm facing a lot of problems in generating the topology files as well as in running grompp

Re: [gmx-users] membrane protein simulation

2009-05-29 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Samik Bhattacharya wrote: hi i'm new to gromacs and want to simulate a protein inside a phospholipid envelop (may be box or dodecahedron). for this i got the pdb files of both the proteins and the lipids(e.g.POPC, POPE etc). but i'm facing a lot of problems in generating the topology files

Re: [gmx-users] membrane protein simulation

2009-05-29 Thread Samik Bhattacharya
Thanx Justin...i must go throuh that tutorial. thanx for the help. --- On Fri, 29/5/09, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: From: Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu Subject: Re: [gmx-users] membrane protein simulation To: Discussion list for GROMACS users gmx-users@gromacs.org Date: Friday

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-09 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
...@gromacs.org [mailto:gmx-users-boun...@gromacs.org mailto:gmx-users-boun...@gromacs.org] *On Behalf Of *Pawan Kumar *Sent:* Thursday, 9 April 2009 2:39 PM *To:* jalem...@vt.edu mailto:jalem...@vt.edu; Discussion list for GROMACS users *Subject:* Re: [gmx-users

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-09 Thread Pawan Kumar
*Subject:* Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial Hello sir, Thanks for such a explanatory tutorial. I am stuck with one error now. I have protein, popc, sol and cl- in my system. I have merged the sol and cl- using make_ndx. But when I

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-09 Thread Mark Abraham
...@vt.edu mailto:jalem...@vt.edu; Discussion list for GROMACS users *Subject:* Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial Hello sir, Thanks for such a explanatory tutorial. I am stuck with one error now. I have protein, popc, sol and cl- in my system

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-09 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
:* Thursday, 9 April 2009 2:39 PM *To:* jalem...@vt.edu mailto:jalem...@vt.edu; Discussion list for GROMACS users *Subject:* Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial Hello sir, Thanks for such a explanatory tutorial. I am stuck with one error now

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-08 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Justin, Pretty neat. Thnx! Just a few comments, also on the lysozyme one. I think it's best to name and explain all options you use for a program, to take as much of the 'magic' out as possible. Having unexplained options may make students, mainly undergrads, go into a non-absorbant mode, just

[gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-08 Thread Stephane Abel
problem begins to resemble a nail. -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:55:28 -0400 From: Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu Subject: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial To: Gromacs Users' List gmx-users@gromacs.org Message-ID: 49dbe7f0.4040...@vt.edu Content-Type

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Hi Tsjerk, Thanks for the comments. I'll think about adding some tips and tricks related to other box types; it may be useful when new users ask, why does my system look so funny? The lysozyme tutorial was intended to be a teaching tool for us, anyway, as we are developing a new course

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-08 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Justin, A handout may be as simple as an all-in-one html page :) I think that especially for teaching you want to use a rhombic dodecahedron to 1. teach good habits and 2. explain PBC (jumping molecules). Cheers, Tsjerk On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Tsjerk Wassenaar wrote: Hi Justin, A handout may be as simple as an all-in-one html page :) I think that especially for teaching you want to use a rhombic dodecahedron to 1. teach good habits and 2. explain PBC (jumping molecules). Indeed, a single page is quite simple, here you go:

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-08 Thread Pawan Kumar
Hello sir, Thanks for such a explanatory tutorial. I am stuck with one error now. I have protein, popc, sol and cl- in my system. I have merged the sol and cl- using make_ndx. But when I run grompp I get the error like this popc not defined in the index file. The grompp command : grompp -f pr.mdp

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-08 Thread Mark Abraham
Pawan Kumar wrote: Hello sir, Thanks for such a explanatory tutorial. I am stuck with one error now. I have protein, popc, sol and cl- in my system. I have merged the sol and cl- using make_ndx. But when I run grompp I get the error like this popc not defined in the index file. The grompp

RE: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-08 Thread Dallas B. Warren
-boun...@gromacs.org [mailto:gmx-users-boun...@gromacs.org] On Behalf Of Pawan Kumar Sent: Thursday, 9 April 2009 2:39 PM To: jalem...@vt.edu; Discussion list for GROMACS users Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial Hello sir

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-08 Thread Pawan Kumar
Hello Mark Sir, I have tried that way also. The command i used was grompp -f pr.mdp -n index.ndx -c box_em.pdb -p topol.top -o box_pr.tpr But this time i get an error like this Atom 1 defined in multiple groups (1 3). How to overcome this error ? Thanking you, Pawan On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-08 Thread Pawan Kumar
*Subject:* Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial Hello sir, Thanks for such a explanatory tutorial. I am stuck with one error now. I have protein, popc, sol and cl- in my system. I have merged the sol and cl- using make_ndx. But when I run grompp I get the error like this popc

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-08 Thread Mark Abraham
Pawan Kumar wrote: Hello Mark Sir, I have tried that way also. The command i used was grompp -f pr.mdp -n index.ndx -c box_em.pdb -p topol.top -o box_pr.tpr But this time i get an error like this Atom 1 defined in multiple groups (1 3). How to overcome this error ? You can't have the

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-08 Thread Pawan Kumar
Hello sir, Thanks for your reply. I have used this .mdp file. Is there anything wrong in the mdp file which I am using ? To tell you in detail : First I have done energy minimization. Output of this step (box_em.pdb) is used to create an index group for sol and cl- ions using make_ndx. Then I am

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-08 Thread Mark Abraham
Pawan Kumar wrote: Hello sir, Thanks for your reply. I have used this .mdp file. Is there anything wrong in the mdp file which I am using ? No, but the manner in which you are using groups in that .mdp file isn't consistent with the way you've defined them in your index file - like I said

[gmx-users] Membrane protein tutorial

2009-04-07 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Hello all, Due to the recent influx in questions related to membrane proteins (especially with common questions), I decided to put together a step-by-step tutorial for membrane protein systems. It's a work in progress, so I would genuinely appreciate feedback from anyone who has a few

Re: [gmx-users] membrane protein energy minimization error

2008-09-19 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Your system is exploding, i.e. you have severe atomic overlap somewhere. Having no idea what you've done to construct your system, it is hard to give any useful advice. It is probably best if you search the list archive for variable ci (it will return many useful posts) or search the wiki

[gmx-users] membrane protein simulation

2008-01-30 Thread pragya chohan
hello users I am starting a membrane protein simulation. I had some missing residues in the protein which have been added now. Should I minimise in vaccum before insertion of the protein in bilayer? Another question : Is it necessary to do simulation in water before inserting protein nto

Re: [gmx-users] membrane protein simulation

2008-01-30 Thread Mark Abraham
hello users I am starting a membrane protein simulation. I had some missing residues in the protein which have been added now. Should I minimise in vaccum before insertion of the protein in bilayer? That depends how bad the new residue coordinates are, and whether vacuum EM is better than

Re: [gmx-users] membrane protein simulation

2008-01-30 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Quoting pragya chohan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hello users I am starting a membrane protein simulation. I had some missing residues in the protein which have been added now. Should I minimise in vaccum before insertion of the protein in bilayer? Couldn't hurt, but probably not necessary.

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein simulation

2007-12-31 Thread Behnoush Zare
this file. After all , am I right? Happy new year, Behnoush - Original Message - From: Yanzi Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Discussion list for GROMACS users gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 11:37:59 PM (GMT+0330) Auto-Detected Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein simulation

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein simulation

2007-12-22 Thread Yanzi Zhou
Dear Behnoush: Dear Yanzi, Of course the system charge is 30+ so I have to add 30 Cl- . So I put “nn 30” to the command like this: genion -s protein_pope_em.tpr -o protein_pope_ion.pdb -nname CL- -nn 30 -g protein_pope.log But it seems only one water has been replaced with Cl-. Do I have to

[gmx-users] Membrane protein simulation

2007-12-19 Thread Behnoush Zare
Dear Yanzi, Forthunatly my simulation was run. this time I select the pope files of the Dr Tieleman's site and create the protein_in_pope.pdb with ffgmx force field. Then I ran genbox to solvate the system and delete some pope which had crash with the protein.Also I added #include lipid.itp in

Re: [gmx-users] membrane protein

2007-12-17 Thread Jochen Hub
Eric Jakobsson wrote: npt, but permit the box to change dimensions independently in the three directions in response to that component of the virial. Does it really matter whether one uses semiisotropic p-coupling or independent coupling in x and y? Are there any examples where semiisotopic

Re: [gmx-users] membrane protein

2007-12-17 Thread Xavier Periole
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:02:19 +0100 Jochen Hub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Jakobsson wrote: npt, but permit the box to change dimensions independently in the three directions in response to that component of the virial. Does it really matter whether one uses semiisotropic p-coupling or

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein MD Simulation

2007-12-17 Thread Yanzi Zhou
Dear Behnoush: The first three lines of popc.itp is not the problem. I got these in pope.itp. Could you attach your input files? Best regards. ___ gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please

[gmx-users] Membrane protein MD Simulation

2007-12-16 Thread Behnoush Zare
Thanks Yanzi,Thanks Mark, for your very usefull points, I have another pdb2gmx running on thr protein.pdb with ffgmx force filed(matching with lipid.itp). Also I have removed the including ffG43a1 from the lipid.itp and then running grompp. The new errors are: ERROR 1 [file popc.itp, line 3]:

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein MD Simulation

2007-12-16 Thread Mark Abraham
Behnoush Zare wrote: Thanks Yanzi,Thanks Mark, for your very usefull points, I have another pdb2gmx running on thr protein.pdb with ffgmx force filed(matching with lipid.itp). Also I have removed the including ffG43a1 from the lipid.itp and then running grompp. The new errors are: ERROR 1

[gmx-users] Membrane protein MD Simulation

2007-12-16 Thread Behnoush Zare
Dear Mark, Sorry about that mistake, the popc.itp file is began with these 3 lines: ;[ moleculetype ] ; Name nrexcl POPC 3 the error is: ERROR 1 [file popc.itp, line 3]: Incorrect number of atomtypes for dihedral (1 instead of 2 or 4) Fatal error: Bonded/nonbonded atom type '1' not

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein MD Simulation

2007-12-16 Thread Mark Abraham
Behnoush Zare wrote: Dear Mark, Sorry about that mistake, the popc.itp file is began with these 3 lines: ;[ moleculetype ] This is a comment before a directive that tells grompp that this is going to be a new molecule type. Hence, it thinks it's in the old one, and that this should be part

Re: [gmx-users] membrane protein

2007-12-16 Thread Eric Jakobsson
npt, but permit the box to change dimensions independently in the three directions in response to that component of the virial. At 11:43 AM 12/16/2007, you wrote: Dear User I am starting a membrane simulation. Is it advisablr to complete all runs in npt or nvt? Pragya Chohan --

[gmx-users] Membrane protein MD Simulation

2007-12-15 Thread Behnoush Zare
Dear Yanzi, Thank you for your swift response. I did all you wrote to me. Also I include ffG43a1 forcefield in the lipid.itp file and then include the lipid.itp file in the protein.top at line 12 as forcefield parameter. When I run grompp the following error appeared: Fatal erroe; Invalid

Re: [gmx-users] Membrane protein MD Simulation

2007-12-15 Thread Yanzi Zhou
Dear Behnoush: I think it is because the lipid.itp is a mixture of lipid and ffgmx parameters. Different force field uses different labels for molecules and atoms. Try using ffgmx instead of ffg43a1, and find out if the problem will be resolved. Sincerely, Yanzi

[gmx-users] membrane protein simulation

2006-10-26 Thread chris . neale
I am trying to set up an ED experiment with the low resolution structure of a membrane protein in the hope of generating NMR-like structures. By ED do you mean essential dynamics? I haven't done that, but it seems to me that the system setup should be identical to regular MD. From what I

[gmx-users] membrane protein simulation

2006-10-25 Thread Diane Fournier
Title: membrane protein simulation Hi gmx-users I am trying to set up an ED experiment with the low resolution structure of a membrane protein in the hope of generating NMR-like structures. >From what I have read until now, I know that I should either restrain the transmembrane domain of