Re: [gmx-users] Phonon calculations in periodic crystals

2010-07-15 Thread David van der Spoel
On 2010-07-15 00.44, Anne Kelley wrote: I am trying to use GROMACS to calculate the phonons (normal modes) of a bulk crystal, CdSe. I have found a simple force field, Coulomb + Lennard-Jones, in the literature (Rabani, J. Chem. Phys. 116, 258, 2002) which the author showed reproduced the

[gmx-users] DSSP and g_sas

2010-07-15 Thread Bhanu Prakash Sandaka
Which among DSSP and g_sas is better for calculating solvent accessible surface area of proteins? -- Bhanu Prakash. -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/search before posting!

[gmx-users] Grompp error: No default g96angle type

2010-07-15 Thread shahid nayeem
Dear All I used the following command sequentially to prepare file for energy minimization and subsequent MD run. 1. pdb2gmx -f *.pdb -o seq.gro -p seq.top 2. editconf -f seq.gro -o seq_box.gro -d 1.0 -bt cubic 3. genbox -cp seq_box.gro -cs spc216.gro -o seq_b4ion.gro -p seq.top 4. grompp -c

Re: [gmx-users] DSSP and g_sas

2010-07-15 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Bhanu Prakash Sandaka wrote: Using DSSP we can also calcuate the surface area, though it doesn't allow changes in probe diameter etc. it does calculate the surface area. I just wish to know whether the performance of DSSP is comparable to g_sas? Should it be used? From do_dssp -h: Note that

Re: [gmx-users] Grompp error: No default g96angle type

2010-07-15 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
shahid nayeem wrote: Dear All I used the following command sequentially to prepare file for energy minimization and subsequent MD run. 1. pdb2gmx -f *.pdb -o seq.gro -p seq.top 2. editconf -f seq.gro -o seq_box.gro -d 1.0 -bt cubic 3. genbox -cp seq_box.gro -cs spc216.gro -o seq_b4ion.gro

Re: [gmx-users] Grompp error: No default g96angle type

2010-07-15 Thread shahid nayeem
Hi Justin These errors are from bond between MET/HIS residue and Heme group of my protein. I checked for all these nine errors of bond and angle in th file ffG43a1bon.itp and I couldnt find these defined in this file. Using other options of force field also gives error at some point. waiting for

[gmx-users] RE: trjcat -cat skips frames

2010-07-15 Thread Mike Wykes
Dear all, I experienced the same skipping of frames when concatenating several trajectories together using trjcat as reported in a thread from 2008 (see below). Apparently the problem has not been resolved. I am using Gromacs 4.0.7 and each original trajectory was about 200ns long with frames

Re: [gmx-users] Grompp error: No default g96angle type

2010-07-15 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
shahid nayeem wrote: Hi Justin These errors are from bond between MET/HIS residue and Heme group of my protein. I checked for all these nine errors of bond and angle in th file ffG43a1bon.itp and I couldnt find these defined in this file. Using other options of force field also gives error

[gmx-users] strain-stress, Young modulus, etc

2010-07-15 Thread Vitaly Chaban
Hi all, We want to calculate strain-stress relationships with gromacs. Can anybody please provide some links about how it can be done in terms of gromacs utilities and keywords? What is the efficient way to apply strain to the system (expand it)? Thank you. Vitaly -- gmx-users mailing list

[gmx-users] Semiisotropic Pressure coupling with PR

2010-07-15 Thread Sai Pooja
Hi, I have a system of 3600 LJ particles in a plane (using freeze-dimension option in z). I am running npt runs using Semi-isotropic pressure coupling with Parrinello-Rahman barostat. I have a few concerns: 1) On the gromacs website, a webpage mentions that this type of pressure coupling may not

Re: [gmx-users] Semiisotropic Pressure coupling with PR

2010-07-15 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Sai Pooja wrote: Hi, I have a system of 3600 LJ particles in a plane (using freeze-dimension option in z). I am running npt runs using Semi-isotropic pressure coupling with Parrinello-Rahman barostat. I have a few concerns: 1) On the gromacs website, a webpage mentions that this type of

Re: [gmx-users] Semiisotropic Pressure coupling with PR

2010-07-15 Thread Sai Pooja
Reply inline... On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Sai Pooja wrote: Hi, I have a system of 3600 LJ particles in a plane (using freeze-dimension option in z). I am running npt runs using Semi-isotropic pressure coupling with Parrinello-Rahman

Re: [gmx-users] Semiisotropic Pressure coupling with PR

2010-07-15 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Sai Pooja wrote: Reply inline... On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu mailto:jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Sai Pooja wrote: Hi, I have a system of 3600 LJ particles in a plane (using freeze-dimension option in z). I am running npt runs

[gmx-users] Pressure coupling

2010-07-15 Thread Sai Pooja
Hi, I am aware there have been many threads on this topic and I have looked at some of them. I would still like to make this query. I am running an npt equilibration run for a solvated protein using Charmm27-Tip3p (nocmap). I ran the simulation for 1ns. The average values of pressure converge to

Re: [gmx-users] Semiisotropic Pressure coupling with PR

2010-07-15 Thread Sai Pooja
Reply inline... On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Sai Pooja wrote: Reply inline... On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edumailto: jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Sai Pooja wrote: Hi, I have a system of 3600

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling

2010-07-15 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Sai Pooja wrote: Hi, I am aware there have been many threads on this topic and I have looked at some of them. I would still like to make this query. I am running an npt equilibration run for a solvated protein using Charmm27-Tip3p (nocmap). I ran the simulation for 1ns. The average values

Re: [gmx-users] Semiisotropic Pressure coupling with PR

2010-07-15 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Sai Pooja wrote: snip Do you run any equilibration prior to applying these parameters? Both N-H and P-R allow for wide fluctuations in temperature and pressure, respectively, which are exacerbated by systems that are not sufficiently equilibrated. Hence it could take a very

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling

2010-07-15 Thread David van der Spoel
On 2010-07-15 16.01, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: Sai Pooja wrote: Hi, I am aware there have been many threads on this topic and I have looked at some of them. I would still like to make this query. I am running an npt equilibration run for a solvated protein using Charmm27-Tip3p (nocmap). I ran

Re: [gmx-users] Semiisotropic Pressure coupling with PR

2010-07-15 Thread Sai Pooja
1. Pressure For my initial configuration, I run a long nvt run. This gives me a pressure. Then I run an npt simulation at this prerssure. The idea is to do expansion runs(decrease pressure so that the system expands) to get a P vs density curve. For example, after I determine the pressure of the

Re: [gmx-users] Semiisotropic Pressure coupling with PR

2010-07-15 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Sai Pooja wrote: 1. Pressure For my initial configuration, I run a long nvt run. This gives me a pressure. Then I run an npt simulation at this prerssure. The idea is to do expansion runs(decrease pressure so that the system expands) to get a P vs density curve. For example, after I

Re: [gmx-users] Semiisotropic Pressure coupling with PR

2010-07-15 Thread Sai Pooja
Its basically a melting process and there is ample of published data on this (not related to gromacs though). The only reason for using freeze-dimensions was to avoid using pbc=xy in combination with walls since I thought the extra interactions due to the walls might make the simulations

[gmx-users] NPH Simulations

2010-07-15 Thread sapna sarupria
Hi All, I was wondering if there is a way to run simulations in the NPH ensemble in Gromacs. Does any one have experience doing this? Thank you Sapna -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at

Re: [gmx-users] NPH Simulations

2010-07-15 Thread Ran Friedman
Hi, You can run a simulation with a barostat but with no temperature coupling. It's probably a good idea to make sure that the system is equilibrated in terms of the temperature first (with NPT). Also, I'd use a small timestep and double precision. Search the literature for protocols from

[gmx-users] Rcut-off etc.

2010-07-15 Thread Sai Pooja
Hi, NOTE 4 [file /fs/home/sm868/llamapooja/ffsb/Setup/nvt.mdp]: The sum of the two largest charge group radii (0.510406) is larger than rlist (2.00) - rvdw (2.00) NOTE 5 [file /fs/home/sm868/llamapooja/ffsb/Setup/nvt.mdp]: The sum of the two largest charge group radii (0.510406)

RE: [gmx-users] Phonon calculations in periodic crystals

2010-07-15 Thread Anne Kelley
I am quite sure that I have properly converted sigma and epsilon from the Angstroms and Kelvin given in the paper to nm and kJ/mol. I experimented with changing ewald_rtol from 1e-5 to 1 e-7 while reducing fourierspacing from 0.12 to 0.077, but the effects were negligibly small. The Rabani

[gmx-users] why the pulling force between Graphite and CNT is repulsive force?

2010-07-15 Thread Cun Zhang
hi,all I'm doing a simulation about the vdw interaction of Graphite and Carbon Nanotube. In my model is a trilayer graphite and a CNT which is perpendicular to the graphite plane,like | | | | | | -- | the distance