[gmx-users] Simulation Box type

2012-07-17 Thread tarak karmakar
Dear All, I want to opt for the rhombic dodecahedron box in my simulation of a protein. I am using the following command to select the type of the box editconf -f test.gro -o test_box.gro -c -d 1.2 -bt dodecahedron but after this if I'm seeing this protein system within the box in VMD but its

Re: [gmx-users] Simulation Box type

2012-07-17 Thread Mark Abraham
On 17/07/2012 4:16 PM, tarak karmakar wrote: Dear All, I want to opt for the rhombic dodecahedron box in my simulation of a protein. I am using the following command to select the type of the box editconf -f test.gro -o test_box.gro -c -d 1.2 -bt dodecahedron but after this if I'm seeing this

[gmx-users] genconf command

2012-07-17 Thread cuong nguyen
Dear Gmx-users, I created a box size 4 4 2 and named layer.gro. Then genconf was used to doulble this box: genconf -f layer.gro -o 2layers.gro -nbox 1 1 2 -dist 0 0 8 However, the copied box has the same direction as the original box. Could you please help me to rotate 180 degrees the copied one?

[gmx-users] DANGLING BOND IN GOLD-PROTEIN SIMULATION

2012-07-17 Thread fatemeh ramezani
HELLO I want simulate gold-protein complex by Golp forcefield. but when I use pdb_gmx I came across this error There is a dangling bond at at least one of the terminal ends and the force field does not provide terminal entries or files. Edit a .n.tdb and/or .c.tdb file. PLEASE HELP ME

[gmx-users] why Blue Gene/Q is so slow?

2012-07-17 Thread DeChang Li
Dear all, I am running a 9000 atom system with GBSA (Gromacs 4.5.5) in a Blue Gene/Q cluster. I got the speed 1.002 ns/day with 8 cores. However, in my own workstation with 8 cores the same system can reach nearly 10 ns/day (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz). Can anyone tell me what's

[gmx-users] Re: Error in Membrane simulations with POPC bilayer

2012-07-17 Thread J Peterson
Hi Justin, I have the following Notes during NPT equilibration. NOTE 1 [file pr_NPT.mdp]: nstcomm nstcalcenergy defeats the purpose of nstcalcenergy, setting nstcomm to nstcalcenergy NOTE 2 [file pr_NPT.mdp]: leapfrog does not yet support Nose-Hoover chains, nhchainlength reset to 1

Re: [gmx-users] genconf command

2012-07-17 Thread Mark Abraham
On 17/07/2012 4:32 PM, cuong nguyen wrote: Dear Gmx-users, I created a box size 4 4 2 and named layer.gro. Then genconf was used to doulble this box: genconf -f layer.gro -o 2layers.gro -nbox 1 1 2 -dist 0 0 8 However, the copied box has the same direction as the original box. Could you please

Re: [gmx-users] why Blue Gene/Q is so slow?

2012-07-17 Thread Mark Abraham
On 17/07/2012 5:00 PM, DeChang Li wrote: Dear all, I am running a 9000 atom system with GBSA (Gromacs 4.5.5) in a Blue Gene/Q cluster. I got the speed 1.002 ns/day with 8 cores. However, in my own workstation with 8 cores the same system can reach nearly 10 ns/day (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU

Re: [gmx-users] genconf command

2012-07-17 Thread rama david
Dear cuong nguyen.. I think use following commands. Try editconf -rotate for rotaion angle along axis along these use -center co-ordinate if you want to place canter of box at particular position Try editconf -translate For translation along axis On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Mark

[gmx-users] Re: Re: why Blue Gene/Q is so slow? (Mark Abraham)

2012-07-17 Thread DeChang Li
-- Message: 8 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:40:05 +1000 From: Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au Subject: Re: [gmx-users] why Blue Gene/Q is so slow? To: Discussion list for GROMACS users gmx-users@gromacs.org Message-ID: 500524e5.9050...@anu.edu.au Content-Type:

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Error in Membrane simulations with POPC bilayer

2012-07-17 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 7/17/12 4:05 AM, J Peterson wrote: Hi Justin, I have the following Notes during NPT equilibration. NOTE 1 [file pr_NPT.mdp]: nstcomm nstcalcenergy defeats the purpose of nstcalcenergy, setting nstcomm to nstcalcenergy http://manual.gromacs.org/online/mdp_opt.html#out

[gmx-users] Re: Any ways to read/convert .g96 file format and keep the precision?

2012-07-17 Thread Markus Kaukonen
Dear All, I rephrase my question (for the original see below). Is there any (easy) way to give gromacs (mdrun -rerun) accurate coordinates for a single point calculation (to get accurate energy and forces)? The accuracy of .pdb and .gro formats is not sufficient and .g96 format reading seems to

[gmx-users] Gromacs-Orca QMMM LJ coefficients problem

2012-07-17 Thread minws
Hello, I've been trying some time now to run a QMMM calculation with gromacs and orca on a system of 5000 atoms with the QM system being ~300 atoms. Setting up the calculation with bOpt = yes and 1 minim step in the .mdp file produces some problems. Orca does the calculation without taking

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Any ways to read/convert .g96 file format and keep the precision?

2012-07-17 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 7/17/12 7:16 AM, Markus Kaukonen wrote: Dear All, I rephrase my question (for the original see below). Is there any (easy) way to give gromacs (mdrun -rerun) accurate coordinates for a single point calculation (to get accurate energy and forces)? The accuracy of .pdb and .gro formats is

[gmx-users] Re: Error in Membrane simulations with POPC bilayer (

2012-07-17 Thread Dr. Vitaly V. G. Chaban
I have the following Notes during NPT equilibration. NOTE 1 [file pr_NPT.mdp]: nstcomm nstcalcenergy defeats the purpose of nstcalcenergy, setting nstcomm to nstcalcenergy NOTE 2 [file pr_NPT.mdp]: leapfrog does not yet support Nose-Hoover chains, nhchainlength reset to 1 What do

[gmx-users] How to speed up equilibrating the density of bulk system?

2012-07-17 Thread Wu Chaofu
Dear gmxers, I am trying to generate one polymer melt from one big enough box using NPT MD in gmx. I find that the density of system varies very slow. Could you please give me some hints about how to speed up this process? Thanks a lot for any reply. Yours sincerely, Chaofu Wu. -- gmx-users

[gmx-users] Re: Gromacs-Orca QMMM LJ coefficients problem

2012-07-17 Thread Minos Matsoukas
Well, the problem was solved at the end, please don't bother answering. Following the advise of one of the Orca developers, Christoph, I changed QMMMscheme to normal instead of ONIOM and disabled periodic boundary conditions. Now the files are extracted normally. for further reference, one

[gmx-users] Short question about 1-4, 1-5+ interactions

2012-07-17 Thread abc def
Dear all, I have a question about internal bond interactions within a molecule. I understand that 1-4 interactions can be scaled with nbfunc. But I wonder: 1. What is the default for 1-5 and larger interactions in Gromacs? Are the LJ and charge interactions included (i.e., not scaled)? I'm

Re: [gmx-users] How to speed up equilibrating the density of bulk system?

2012-07-17 Thread lloyd riggs
A variabvle thermostat that increases from 180 K to 300 K over cycles of 100-1 Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:40:12 +0800 Von: Wu Chaofu xiaowu...@gmail.com An: gmx-users@gromacs.org Betreff: [gmx-users] How to speed up equilibrating the density of bulk

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Re: why Blue Gene/Q is so slow? (Mark Abraham)

2012-07-17 Thread Mark Abraham
On 17/07/2012 7:06 PM, DeChang Li wrote: -- Message: 8 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:40:05 +1000 From: Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au Subject: Re: [gmx-users] why Blue Gene/Q is so slow? To: Discussion list for GROMACS users gmx-users@gromacs.org Message-ID:

[gmx-users] Re: Any ways to read/convert .g96 file format and keep the precision? Or any way to give accurate coordinates?

2012-07-17 Thread Markus Kaukonen
Convert the .g96 file to .trr format. Double precision may be necessary and will certainly give the greatest possible accuracy. -Justin I try trjconv -f gromacs.g96 -o test.trr and get Program trjconv, VERSION 4.5.5 Source code file: /build/buildd/gromacs-4.5.5/src/gmxlib/trxio.c, line: 693 Fatal

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Any ways to read/convert .g96 file format and keep the precision? Or any way to give accurate coordinates?

2012-07-17 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 7/17/12 12:51 PM, Markus Kaukonen wrote: Convert the .g96 file to .trr format. Double precision may be necessary and will certainly give the greatest possible accuracy. -Justin I try trjconv -f gromacs.g96 -o test.trr and get Program trjconv, VERSION 4.5.5 Source code file:

Re: [gmx-users] How to speed up equilibrating the density of bulk system?

2012-07-17 Thread Tsjerk Wassenaar
Hi, You can scale the system with editconf to some density and energy minimize, and equilibrate 1000 steps or so in NVT. Do this with small scaling factors, repeating until tje density is correct. You might want to run at a relatively high temperature. Cheers, Tsjerk On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at

[gmx-users] Measuring hydrogen bonding in a specific region

2012-07-17 Thread Alex Marshall
Hi all, I have a system that consists of two distinct reservoirs filled with water+NaCl connected by a CNT. I want to measure the average number of hydrogen bonds per water in each reservoir as a function of time, but my current workflow for this is far too time-consuming to get any significant

Re: [gmx-users] Measuring hydrogen bonding in a specific region

2012-07-17 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 7/17/12 4:37 PM, Alex Marshall wrote: Hi all, I have a system that consists of two distinct reservoirs filled with water+NaCl connected by a CNT. I want to measure the average number of hydrogen bonds per water in each reservoir as a function of time, but my current workflow for this is

[gmx-users] Re: Measuring hydrogen bonding in a specific region

2012-07-17 Thread Andrew DeYoung
Hi Justin, I am just curious, do you have experience writing such a shell script to iterate over the index files (one per frame)? I am just curious, because I have been trying this, and I have found it very difficult to do using bash. Do you use a different shell language? Also, I wonder if

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Measuring hydrogen bonding in a specific region

2012-07-17 Thread Justin Lemkul
On 7/17/12 4:57 PM, Andrew DeYoung wrote: Hi Justin, I am just curious, do you have experience writing such a shell script to iterate over the index files (one per frame)? I am just curious, because I have been trying this, and I have found it very difficult to do using bash. Do you use a

Re: [gmx-users] Re: Measuring hydrogen bonding in a specific region

2012-07-17 Thread Alex Marshall
Thanks Justin, this is great. On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Justin Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: On 7/17/12 4:57 PM, Andrew DeYoung wrote: Hi Justin, I am just curious, do you have experience writing such a shell script to iterate over the index files (one per frame)? I am just

[gmx-users] Re: Peptide folding simulation

2012-07-17 Thread simula_460
Hi, I tried again simulating the same peptide with OPLS FF for 2000 ns time duration. I used VMD for the secondary structure analysis and trajectory visualization. This time I was able to get folding events but the residues that are should be beta strands were helical for most of the time during

Re: [gmx-users] Some interactions seem to be assigned multiple times

2012-07-17 Thread Peter C. Lai
and this did not happen with EM? Did you add new atoms/FF parameters to the existing C36 set? On 2012-07-13 02:05:47AM -0700, Shima Arasteh wrote: Dear gmx users, My system is composed of a protein and water. I am working with CHARMM36 and the current version of Gromacs, 4.5.5. For

Re: [gmx-users] Some interactions seem to be assigned multiple times

2012-07-17 Thread Shima Arasteh
I added a new residue by using defined atom types. I did not get this error with EM. This error happened when I just entered the command of #deffnm NVT. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Shima From: Peter C. Lai p...@uab.edu To: gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent:

[gmx-users] mdrun -j still functional?

2012-07-17 Thread Dallas Warren
Has anyone been recently using the coupling feature of mdrun for parameterising? I used it many versions ago and have just been trying to use it today with 4.5.5, however I can't get it to work as it did previously. Currently you can't couple more than one set of charges (seems a bit weird