Re: [gmx-users] minimization of particular residue/atom

2013-05-02 Thread gromacs query
Dear Mark, I found a simple(est) fix to this problem. Say in my case I was getting error inf on atom 4281 ( Maximum force =inf on atom 4281) What I did: In gro file for atom number 4281 I edited one of its coordinate just 0.1nm that is 1 Angs e.g. 6.518 to 6.618 (I did for x,

Re: [gmx-users] minimization of particular residue/atom

2013-05-02 Thread Mark Abraham
That procedure can work. That it works in your case surprises me a little. :-) Mark On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:25 AM, gromacs query gromacsqu...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Mark, I found a simple(est) fix to this problem. Say in my case I was getting error inf on atom 4281 ( Maximum force =

[gmx-users] minimization of particular residue/atom

2013-05-01 Thread gromacs query
Dear All, I am using Charmm gui built membrane (120 x 2). But during minimization I was getting error. Potential Energy = 4.6809051e+19 Maximum force =inf on atom 4281 Norm of force =inf (inf means? means infinite/NAN) I removed the full lipid residue having

Re: [gmx-users] minimization of particular residue/atom

2013-05-01 Thread Mark Abraham
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:20 PM, gromacs query gromacsqu...@gmail.comwrote: Dear All, I am using Charmm gui built membrane (120 x 2). But during minimization I was getting error. Potential Energy = 4.6809051e+19 Maximum force =inf on atom 4281 Norm of force =

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization problem

2013-01-17 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 1/17/13 9:54 AM, Marcelo Depolo wrote: Well, Justin, I tried to generate the .tpr using single precision and I got the same warning. I also tried to use gmxcheck using the command line below: *$ gmxcheck -e prt_cg.edr -m cg.tex* Unfortunately, I got the same warning and no log file.

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization problem

2013-01-16 Thread Elton Carvalho
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Marcelo Depolo marcelodep...@gmail.com wrote: I was minimizing my system (with only proteins) and i got this error in the log: *Polak-Ribiere Conjugate Gradients: Tolerance (Fmax) = 1.0e-01 Number of steps= -1 F-max

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization problem

2013-01-16 Thread Marcelo Depolo
Thanks, Elton. I appreciate your answer, but my question was about the Warning error. The convergence value was set ok. The minimization do not go further because the error: *WARNING: there may be something wrong with energy file prt_cg.edr Found: step=-1, nre=36, nblock=0, time=-1. Trying to

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization problem

2013-01-16 Thread Elton Carvalho
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Marcelo Depolo marcelodep...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Elton. I appreciate your answer, but my question was about the Warning error. The convergence value was set ok. The minimization do not go further because the error: *WARNING: there may be something wrong

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization problem

2013-01-16 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 1/16/13 12:11 PM, Marcelo Depolo wrote: Thanks, Elton. I appreciate your answer, but my question was about the Warning error. The convergence value was set ok. The minimization do not go further because the error: *WARNING: there may be something wrong with energy file prt_cg.edr Found:

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization problem

2013-01-16 Thread Marcelo Depolo
I have set nstenergy=100. I'm using gromacs compiled with double precision and even so, the stepsize was too small. i have faced this convergence problems earlier, and managed some solutions. I'm really wondering about the warning part, that I have never seen. -- Marcelo Depólo Polêto --

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization problem

2013-01-16 Thread Marcelo Depolo
Justin, I'm using gromacs 4.5.5 version, compiled in double precision. I tried to generate the .tpr file 3 times and got the same results. About the gmxcheck, i don't know how to use it to check my .edr file. How can I do this? -- Marcelo Depólo Polêto -- gmx-users mailing list

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization problem

2013-01-16 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 1/16/13 12:36 PM, Marcelo Depolo wrote: Justin, I'm using gromacs 4.5.5 version, compiled in double precision. I tried to generate the .tpr file 3 times and got the same results. About the gmxcheck, i don't know how to use it to check my .edr file. How can I do this? Start with reading

[gmx-users] minimization force criteria

2012-07-26 Thread tarak karmakar
Dear All, While running minimization I imposed the the condition for the minimization as to be converged only at Fmax 10 . But I got the following Stepsize too small, or no change in energy. Converged to machine precision, but not to the requested precision Fmax 10 Double precision normally

Re: [gmx-users] minimization force criteria

2012-07-26 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 7/26/12 8:30 AM, tarak karmakar wrote: Dear All, While running minimization I imposed the the condition for the minimization as to be converged only at Fmax 10 . But I got the following Stepsize too small, or no change in energy. Converged to machine precision, but not to the requested

[gmx-users] Minimization with DPOSRE

2012-05-16 Thread Steven Neumann
Dear Gmx Users, I would like to run energy minimization with some atoms restrained - this is a surface made of atoms which do not share any bonds. So the EM of water only. I tries to use define = -DPOSRES in my EM file but then the surface atoms change their positions. Thus, when I want to run

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization with DPOSRE

2012-05-16 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
On 5/16/12 5:54 AM, Steven Neumann wrote: Dear Gmx Users, I would like to run energy minimization with some atoms restrained - this is a surface made of atoms which do not share any bonds. So the EM of water only. I tries to use define = -DPOSRES in my EM file but then the surface atoms

[gmx-users] Minimization Problems

2012-02-01 Thread Alex Seling
Hello, I've recently been having trouble with my simulations blowing up. Specifically, This usually means your system is exploding, if not, you should increase table-extension in your mdp file or with user tables increase the table size for a few interactions, with each of them approaching inf.

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization Problems

2012-02-01 Thread lina
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Alex Seling selin...@msu.edu wrote: Hello, I've recently been having trouble with my simulations blowing up. Specifically, This usually means your system is exploding, if not, you should increase table-extension in your mdp file or with user tables increase

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization Problems

2012-02-01 Thread Mark Abraham
On 2/02/2012 3:36 PM, Alex Seling wrote: Hello, I've recently been having trouble with my simulations blowing up. Specifically, This usually means your system is exploding, if not, you should increase table-extension in your mdp file or with user tables increase the table size for a few

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization Problems

2012-02-01 Thread Mark Abraham
On 2/02/2012 3:42 PM, lina wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Alex Selingselin...@msu.edu wrote: Hello, I've recently been having trouble with my simulations blowing up. Specifically, This usually means your system is exploding, if not, you should increase table-extension in your mdp

[gmx-users] Minimization error

2011-10-19 Thread aiswarya . pawar
Hi Users, I performed a simple minimization for a protein complex in vacuum. Didn't get any error while performing the minimization but when visualised the pdb file after the minimization the chains of the protein complex separated. What could be the reason. Thanks, Aiswarya Sent from my

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization error

2011-10-19 Thread mu xiaojia
1 check with the rtp files in your forcefield, especially the parameters 2 check with the imput pdb file, the format matters a lot. On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 8:18 AM, aiswarya.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Users, I performed a simple minimization for a protein complex in vacuum. Didn't get any

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization error

2011-10-19 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
aiswarya.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Users, I performed a simple minimization for a protein complex in vacuum. Didn't get any error while performing the minimization but when visualised the pdb file after the minimization the chains of the protein complex separated. What could be the reason.

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization error

2011-10-19 Thread aiswarya pawar
Hi, All the parameters are ok, still i get the complex separated. On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: aiswarya.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Users, I performed a simple minimization for a protein complex in vacuum. Didn't get any error while performing

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization error

2011-10-19 Thread Mark Abraham
On 20/10/2011 4:14 PM, aiswarya pawar wrote: Hi, All the parameters are ok, still i get the complex separated. Simulation parameters have nothing to do with the phenomena in the FAQ Justin pointed out to you. Please read it. Mark On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Justin A. Lemkul

Re: [gmx-users] minimization problem (Martini simulation)

2011-06-29 Thread politr
Thank you very much. It worked. Regina Quoting Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu: pol...@fh.huji.ac.il wrote: Dear Justin, Thank you very much for your answer. Can you please explain me what do you mean by saying EM wasn't sufficient. What information do you need in order be able to help?

[gmx-users] minimization problem

2011-06-27 Thread politr
Dear Gromacs users and developers, I'm trying to set up simulation. I have a big simulation of something like half million atoms. The problem is that I have a minimization problem. I'm getting the following error: Converged to machine precision, but not to the requested precision Fmax 10 I

Re: [gmx-users] minimization problem (Martini simulation)

2011-06-27 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
pol...@fh.huji.ac.il wrote: Dear Gromacs users and developers, I forgot to note that I'm talking about a Martini simulation. I'm trying to set up simulation. I have a big simulation of something like half million CG atoms. The problem is that I have a minimization problem. I'm getting the

Re: [gmx-users] minimization problem (Martini simulation)

2011-06-27 Thread politr
Dear Justin, Thank you very much for your answer. Can you please explain me what do you mean by saying EM wasn't sufficient. What information do you need in order be able to help? I run EM with emtol=60 and I got the following energies: Steepest Descents converged to Fmax 60 in 2256 steps

Re: [gmx-users] minimization problem (Martini simulation)

2011-06-27 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
pol...@fh.huji.ac.il wrote: Dear Justin, Thank you very much for your answer. Can you please explain me what do you mean by saying EM wasn't sufficient. What information do you need in order be able to help? I run EM with emtol=60 and I got the following energies: Steepest Descents converged

[gmx-users] minimization and simulation problems

2011-04-04 Thread politr
Dear all, I'm trying to run simulation of 30 proteins in water using the Martini force field. I used water.gro file in order to solvate the proteins. For minimization I used the em.mdp file published at Martini site (http://md.chem.rug.nl/cgmartini/index.php/home). When I set the emtol

[gmx-users] minimization and simulation problems

2011-04-04 Thread chris . neale
What are your initial box dimensions prior to em? Also, please copy and paste your .mdp options. Also, what happens when you run the same post-em simulation with nsteps=1 ? -- original message -- Dear all, I'm trying to run simulation of 30 proteins in water using the Martini force field.

Re: [gmx-users] minimization and simulation problems

2011-04-04 Thread politr
my box dimensions are 368A Quoting chris.ne...@utoronto.ca: What are your initial box dimensions prior to em? Also, please copy and paste your .mdp options. Also, what happens when you run the same post-em simulation with nsteps=1 ? -- original message -- Dear all, I'm trying to run

Re: [gmx-users] minimization and simulation problems

2011-04-04 Thread politr
Quoting pol...@fh.huji.ac.il: Dear gromacs users, my box dimensions are 368A and when I run the simulation with nsteps=1 it works fine. The mdp files used for minimization and post-em simulation are attached. Thanks again for your help. Regina Quoting chris.ne...@utoronto.ca: What are

[gmx-users] minimization and simulation problems

2011-04-04 Thread Chris Neale
Can you please redo the md part with gen_vel=yes and see if that makes any difference? Generally, you need to narrow down the problem for us. Does it crash in serial as well as parallel? How many steps does it go before the crash? what happens to the system volume as a function of time for

[gmx-users] Minimization and torsion angles

2011-02-07 Thread abdullah ahmed
Hello, I have an input structure with poor torsion angles and after minimization with gromacs (both steepest descent and congugate gradient) I found that they were not corrected. There is enough free space for the torsion angles to be corrected. (I am sure of this because when I run the

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization and torsion angles

2011-02-07 Thread Mark Abraham
On 8/02/2011 2:47 AM, abdullah ahmed wrote: Hello, I have an input structure with poor torsion angles and after minimization with gromacs (both steepest descent and congugate gradient) I found that they were not corrected. There is enough free space for the torsion angles to be corrected. (I

[gmx-users] Minimization-single or double precision

2011-01-13 Thread kavya
Dear Gromacs users, I wanted to know whether it is correct doing minimization in double precision and rest all - pdb2gmx, editconf, genbox, grompp and mdrun itself in single precision. I had got convergence during energy minimization using double precision but not single precision (input

[gmx-users] minimization

2010-12-27 Thread mustafa bilsel
Hi all, At the end of the minimisation I obtained potential energy value approximately -40,000 and I see the following warning Stepsize too small, or no change in energy.Converged to machine precision, but not to the requested precision Fmax 10 As far as I know for succesful minimisation

Re: [gmx-users] minimization

2010-12-27 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
mustafa bilsel wrote: Hi all, At the end of the minimisation I obtained potential energy value approximately -40,000 and I see the following warning Stepsize too small, or no change in energy.Converged to machine precision, but not to the requested precision Fmax 10 Please see the

[gmx-users] minimization

2010-12-24 Thread mustafa bilsel
Dear Justin, I have added your last reply to the end of this message. my shell type is bash. my dssp exe file is in /home/m/DSSP/dssp I wrote export DSSP=//home/m/DSSP/ as in gromacs web page, then I did do_dssp I have the below error. Although the dssp exe is in /usr/local/bin and also I did

[gmx-users] minimization

2010-12-24 Thread mustafa bilsel
Hi, What is the meaning of the below message after I completed minimization? Does it mean minimization is successful? In my input parameters nsteps=10,000,000 but minimization stops at about 14,000 th step. Is 10,000,000 very large? What is the typical value for it? And also what is the meaning

Re: [gmx-users] minimization

2010-12-24 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
mustafa bilsel wrote: Dear Justin, I have added your last reply to the end of this message. my shell type is bash. my dssp exe file is in /home/m/DSSP/dssp I wrote export DSSP=//home/m/DSSP/ as in gromacs web page, then I did This is still wrong. As I quoted in the previous message, the

Re: [gmx-users] minimization

2010-12-24 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
mustafa bilsel wrote: Hi, What is the meaning of the below message after I completed minimization? Does it mean minimization is successful? In my input parameters nsteps=10,000,000 but minimization stops at about 14,000 th step. Is 10,000,000 very large? What is the typical value for it?

[gmx-users] minimization quagmire

2010-09-15 Thread abdullah ahmed
Hello everyone, I have a question regarding the results of minimization. I have two structures that are the same except for 2 residues in the core of the structure that have been changed from luecine to to glycine. The leucine structure is very well packed and the core is hydrophobic. The

Re: [gmx-users] minimization quagmire

2010-09-15 Thread Mark Abraham
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[gmx-users] Minimization before NMA

2010-08-02 Thread nahren manuel
Dear Gromacs Users, I am unable to minimize a complex protein (Trimer-Trimer complex) to even less than Fmax=1.754e+00. I tried few tricks like performing MD for few steps etc, but it does not yield any results. I am sure there must be a way out. Can you please advice. Thanks for your

[gmx-users] minimization problem

2009-10-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Hello, I merged two simulation boxes, and now I want to perform a minimization to remove the problems at their boundary! I have reduced the dt to 0.1 and emstep to 0.1 as well. But still I get the message Reading file Ih0001_81_93_204_min.tpr, VERSION 4.0.5 (double precision)

Re: [gmx-users] minimization problem

2009-10-25 Thread Itamar Kass
I am not sure what you refer to as dt, as there no meaning to time in EM. Anyway, I think the easiest way is to remove this ware molecule. Best, Itamar. On 26/10/2009, at 10:31 AM, Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Hello, I merged two simulation boxes, and now I want to perform a minimization to

Re: [gmx-users] minimization problem

2009-10-25 Thread Paymon Pirzadeh
Sorry, That was a big typo(a mis-pasted line)! What is the suggestion anyway about emstep? Payman On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 10:43 +1100, Itamar Kass wrote: I am not sure what you refer to as dt, as there no meaning to time in EM. Anyway, I think the easiest way is to remove this ware

Re: [gmx-users] minimization problem

2009-10-25 Thread Itamar Kass
I think it is too small. Try removing the water molecule and repeat the EM. You might need to remove some molecules before you can minimise your system. Itamar On 26/10/2009, at 10:48 AM, Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Sorry, That was a big typo(a mis-pasted line)! What is the suggestion

Re: [gmx-users] minimization problem

2009-10-25 Thread Mark Abraham
Paymon Pirzadeh wrote: Hello, I merged two simulation boxes, Are you sure your error is not here? Inspect your result visually! :-) All the atoms need to be inside the box and non-overlapping. Mark and now I want to perform a minimization to remove the problems at their boundary! I have

Re: [gmx-users] minimization

2009-08-13 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Morteza, How did you obtain these structures? If they were modeled, maybe in part, check for knots and chain overlaps. Also check whether you're using PBC and if so, whether the box is large enough or you may have overlapping periodic images. Cheers, Tsjerk 2009/8/13 Mark Abraham

[gmx-users] minimization

2009-08-13 Thread Morteza Khabiri
Dear Tsjerk Thanks for your suggestion...actually It is a crystal structure...the problem happen when I want to minimize the structure in vacuumthe box size is enough...but the problem is that the minimization is fine with gromacs forcefield but it is not ok with OPLSAA forcefiledI tried

Re: [gmx-users] minimization

2009-08-13 Thread Mark Abraham
Morteza Khabiri wrote: Dear Tsjerk Thanks for your suggestion...actually It is a crystal structure...the problem happen when I want to minimize the structure in vacuumthe box size is enough...but the problem is that the minimization is fine with gromacs forcefield but it is not ok with

Re: [gmx-users] minimization

2009-08-13 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hmm, was the OPLSAA run following the GMX one on the dimer or also performed on the monomers? If you feed a multimeric protein without chain identifiers (like in a .gro file) to pdb2gmx, it will bind the different chains together. That would be a good cause for a crash. So I'd say check that

[gmx-users] minimization

2009-08-13 Thread Morteza Khabiri
:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Morteza Khabiri khab...@greentech.cz Subject: [gmx-users] minimization To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Message-ID: 25565.160.217.215.124.1250155803.squir...@www.greentech.cz Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-2 Dear Tsjerk Thanks for your suggestion...actually

[gmx-users] minimization

2009-08-13 Thread Morteza Khabiri
Dear MARK and Tsjerk I found somethingafter making topology file by pdb2gmx ... I made tpr file by grompp ... then I give the original pdb file and tpr file to ngmx to see the system before running minimization...the interesting thing was that the bonds between atoms are stretched.. I

Re: [gmx-users] minimization

2009-08-13 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Morteza, I think it will be best for all of us if you can provide the exact command lines you are using, and the output of pdb2gmx for the well-performing and an ill-performing force field. Otherwise I'm afraid that we will not be able to get any further than making guesses. Cheers, Tsjerk

[gmx-users] minimization

2009-08-12 Thread Morteza Khabiri
Dear users I have a dimer protein which I want to minimized it..unfortunately the protein is in high energy level and before starting to minimize it explode. I already went through users email and also wiki gromacs and also I tried all the way like changing time step, change coulomb type ,... but

Re: [gmx-users] minimization

2009-08-12 Thread Mark Abraham
Morteza Khabiri wrote: Dear users I have a dimer protein which I want to minimized it..unfortunately the protein is in high energy level and before starting to minimize it explode. I already went through users email and also wiki gromacs and also I tried all the way like changing time step,

Re: [gmx-users] minimization

2009-08-07 Thread Mark Abraham
On 08/07/09, Morteza Khabiri khab...@greentech.cz wrote: Dear users I have a dimer protein which I want to minimized it..unfortunately the protein is in high energy level and before starting to minimize it explode. I already went through users email and also wiki gromacs and also I tried

[gmx-users] minimization

2009-08-06 Thread Morteza Khabiri
Dear users I have a dimer protein which I want to minimized it..unfortunately the protein is in high energy level and before starting to minimize it explode. I already went through users email and also wiki gromacs and also I tried all the way like changing time step, change coulomb type ,... but

Re: [gmx-users] minimization

2009-08-06 Thread Mark Abraham
Morteza Khabiri wrote: Dear users I have a dimer protein which I want to minimized it..unfortunately the protein is in high energy level and before starting to minimize it explode. I already went through users email and also wiki gromacs and also I tried all the way like changing time step,

[gmx-users] minimization

2009-08-05 Thread Morteza Khabiri
Dear users I want to minimized a dimer protein but at the first step it start to explosion. I tried to decrease the dt but it is not working. the protein is in the high energy level. Is there any suggestion how to minimized such a high energy level protein?? thanks

Re: [gmx-users] minimization

2009-08-05 Thread Mark Abraham
Morteza Khabiri wrote: Dear users I want to minimized a dimer protein but at the first step it start to explosion. I tried to decrease the dt but it is not working. the protein is in the high energy level. Is there any suggestion how to minimized such a high energy level protein?? There are

[gmx-users] Minimization not converging

2009-03-12 Thread Jack Shultz
Hi, I think that my minimization are not running long enough. I've been following the parameters in tutorials but it seems like they all die at 34 steps I've been using these tutorials https://extras.csc.fi/chem/courses/gmx2007/tutorial1/tutorial1.pdf

Re: [gmx-users] minimization problems

2009-01-08 Thread David van der Spoel
Hongyan Xiao wrote: Hi, gmx-users, I built a system,decane(42molecule)/water(903)/decane(42), including the two decane/water interfaces. However, when I minimized this system, I found the system turn into water/decane(84)/water. That is to say in the initial system two parts of decane turn

Re: [gmx-users] minimization problem

2009-01-08 Thread David van der Spoel
Hongyan Xiao wrote: Hi, David van der Spoel I used the periodic boundary conditions. The box is 3.006x3.002x6.000 along x,y,z direction,respectively.The following is the em.mdp file. Then the minimization works correctly. See chapter 3 in the manual. ; ; User xiao ;

[gmx-users] minimization problem

2009-01-08 Thread Hongyan Xiao
Hi, I has used the periodic boundary conditions and correct em.mdp file. However, the minimized result is water/decane/water, while I set decane/water/decane as the initial system . I cannot understand the reason. Please give me some constructive suggestion! Thanks! H. Y. Xiao

Re: [gmx-users] minimization problem

2009-01-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Hongyan Xiao wrote: Hi, I has used the periodic boundary conditions and correct em.mdp file. However, the minimized result is water/decane/water, while I set decane/water/decane as the initial system . I cannot understand the reason. Please give me some constructive suggestion! Thanks!

Re: [gmx-users] minimization problem

2009-01-08 Thread Mark Abraham
Hongyan Xiao wrote: Hi, I has used the periodic boundary conditions and correct em.mdp file. However, the minimized result is water/decane/water, while I set decane/water/decane as the initial system . I cannot understand the reason. Please give me some constructive suggestion! Thanks!

RE: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-28 Thread Berk Hess
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:59:06 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice? Berk, I assume you are using a rigid water model, and thus constraints via SETTLE. Yes, OK. Constraining is required

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-27 Thread David van der Spoel
David Mobley wrote: Xavier, I was surprised by the value you use for emstep=1.0e-8. This is the maximum step size and is in nm! I think that's where your problem is. I added this recently in testing because I thought perhaps the problem could be due to using too large of steps. It does not

RE: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-27 Thread Berk Hess
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:54:03 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice? David Mobley wrote: Xavier, I was surprised by the value you use for emstep=1.0e-8. This is the maximum step size

[gmx-users] MInimization with frozen atoms

2008-03-27 Thread Georgios Patargias
Hello I'm trying to minimize a protein with the a part of it frozen. I was wondering if it is at all possible to extract bonded energy terms for the non-frozen region. I can extract the coulombic and LJ energy terms but not the bond, angle and proper dih ones... Any suggestions? Thanks a

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-27 Thread David Mobley
Berk, The problem could be in the constraints. Gromacs 3 constrains the forces during EM by adding c*f to the coordinates, constraining those and then dividing the constraint displacement by c. This limits the accuracy. In Gromacs 4 I have implemented force constraining for LINCS and

RE: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-27 Thread Berk Hess
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:41:12 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice? Berk, The problem could be in the constraints. Gromacs 3 constrains the forces during EM by adding c*f to the coordinates

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-27 Thread David Mobley
Berk, I assume you are using a rigid water model, and thus constraints via SETTLE. Yes, OK. Constraining is required to measure the size of the force (for convergence and step size adjustment) and to make correct steps without enormous extra displacements in the direction of the force

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-27 Thread David Mobley
Berk, Hmm. Is this different from how other packages handle this issue? I have never had the recurring problems with minimization in GROMACS that I have in other packages. Even though, strangely enough, water is a common feature in most of the simulations I run. That was backwards. I

[gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-26 Thread David Mobley
All, I often have problems with minimization in gromacs, but now I think I have something a little more systematic to say. First, my system: I am simulating a short peptide in a mix of two co-solvents. I use a program called packmol which can start pack specified number of molecules into a box

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-26 Thread Xavier Periole
Hi David, I was surprised by the value you use for emstep=1.0e-8. This is the maximum step size and is in nm! I think that's where your problem is. The minimizer is probably incapable to find anything better for your system with this step size and therefore stops. Did you try to keep the

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-26 Thread David Mobley
Xavier, I was surprised by the value you use for emstep=1.0e-8. This is the maximum step size and is in nm! I think that's where your problem is. I added this recently in testing because I thought perhaps the problem could be due to using too large of steps. It does not help. So everything I

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-26 Thread Mark Abraham
David Mobley wrote: Also, I think your argument is backwards: steepest descents should work better (but slower) the smaller the step size, I think. If steps are too big it won't be able to move down the gradients accurately enough and risks not being able to find the minimum. The smaller the

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-26 Thread David Mobley
Mark, However should you find yourself on a very flat area of the PES, then the smaller the step size, the closer it will look to flat, and thus to have converged to a stationary point. Flat is of course relative to the step size Right. But of course the problem here has is that the

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-26 Thread Christian Burisch
David Mobley schrieb: Hi David, enough and risks not being able to find the minimum. The smaller the steps are the more accurately it should be able to find the minimum. mmh, just my 0.02€: I guess in a very rough energy landscape (as in solvated peptides or proteins) this is not generally

Re: [gmx-users] minimization -- bugzilla or general advice?

2008-03-26 Thread David Mobley
Dear Christian, mmh, just my 0.02€: I guess in a very rough energy landscape (as in solvated peptides or proteins) this is not generally true, because with small steps the system might get stuck in the next tiny local minimum, while with a larger step size it may jump across it. And I

[gmx-users] Minimization of a box of capped tryptophan (trp)

2007-08-25 Thread OZGE ENGIN
Hi all, As you suggest David I used genconf command without -rot option. I minimized a single capped trp molecule and got the minimized molecule and used that molecule with genconf command in order to create a box. Then, I solvated capped trp molecule within the created box with genbox

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization of a box of capped tryptophan (trp)

2007-08-25 Thread David van der Spoel
OZGE ENGIN wrote: Hi all, As you suggest David I used genconf command without -rot option. I minimized a single capped trp molecule and got the minimized molecule and used that molecule with genconf command in order to create a box. Then, I solvated capped trp molecule within the created box

[gmx-users] Minimization Issue - membrane inverted and system copied

2006-09-21 Thread Arneh Babakhani
Hi, I'm getting a quirky result from my minimization of my system (which consists of a small peptide in a membrane, solvated). When I look at the trr of the minimization (or the outputted structure after minization), I notice that my membrane has been inverted, and there are 4 copies

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization Issue - membrane inverted and system copied

2006-09-21 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi Arneh, I guess it's the PBC. Did you center your bilayer at z=0 (or x, or y)? Then it's certain it's the PBC. Next time it may be better to center your system at the box center. Best, Tsjerk On 9/21/06, Arneh Babakhani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm getting a quirky result from my

Re: [gmx-users] Minimization Issue - membrane inverted and system copied

2006-09-21 Thread Arneh Babakhani
Ahh! Yes, Indeed I did center it to 0 0 0. I corrected that (centered it in the box), and it works fine now. Thanks Tsjerk, Regards, Arneh Tsjerk Wassenaar wrote: Hi Arneh, I guess it's the PBC. Did you center your bilayer at z=0 (or x, or y)? Then it's certain it's the PBC. Next time it