[gmx-users] pressure coupling without pbc

2013-10-09 Thread MURAT OZTURK
Hello, I have read somewhere in the list that I cannot do pressure coupling without pbc. What I essentially need is a box with impermeable walls, that get smaller as the simulation proceeds. I do anisotropic pressure coupling with two impermeable walls (in xy axis) for another simulation, and

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling

2013-06-03 Thread Mark Abraham
Probably. See manual 7.3.15. Semiisotropic with some zero compressibilities is probably what you want. Mark On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Marcelo Vanean vanea...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone. I want to know if can be applied pressure coupling only in the z direction, allowing the edges

[gmx-users] Pressure coupling

2013-06-02 Thread Marcelo Vanean
Hello everyone. I want to know if can be applied pressure coupling only in the z direction, allowing the edges x and y simulation box with fixed size. -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users * Please search the archive at

[gmx-users] Pressure coupling doubt

2012-03-29 Thread bipin singh
Hello, I have two doubts regarding pressure coupling in Gromacs: 1) When I use pcoupl=no the mdp.out shows the following ; Pressure coupling pcoupl = no Pcoupltype = Isotropic nstpcouple = -1 ; Time constant (ps), compressibility (1/bar) and

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling doubt

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Abraham
On 29/03/2012 5:38 PM, bipin singh wrote: Hello, I have two doubts regarding pressure coupling in Gromacs: 1) When I use pcoupl=no the mdp.out shows the following ; Pressure coupling pcoupl = no Pcoupltype = Isotropic nstpcouple = -1 ; Time

[gmx-users] Pressure coupling and Isothermal compressibility for a biphasic system

2012-03-29 Thread bipin singh
Hello All, I have some doubts regarding the use of pressure coupling and isothermal compressibility for a biphasic system (octane+water boxes built over each other). I have two questions regarding that: (1) Which pressure coupling (pcoupl) type would be suitable for this type of system ? (2) As

[gmx-users] Pressure coupling and membrane-type simulations

2012-02-21 Thread Andrew DeYoung
Hi, I am interested in doing a membrane-type simulation, in which I have all-atom membrane walls parallel to xy plane, at z = -z_0 and z = +z_0 (where z_0 is a constant). I would like to run an NPT simulation at 1 atm. What type of pressure coupling should I use? Isotropic pressure coupling

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling and membrane-type simulations

2012-02-21 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Andrew DeYoung wrote: Hi, I am interested in doing a membrane-type simulation, in which I have all-atom membrane walls parallel to xy plane, at z = -z_0 and z = +z_0 (where z_0 is a constant). I would like to run an NPT simulation at 1 atm. What type of pressure coupling should I use?

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling and membrane-type simulations

2012-02-21 Thread Peter C. Lai
On 2012-02-21 03:41:07PM -0500, Justin A. Lemkul wrote: Andrew DeYoung wrote: Hi, I am interested in doing a membrane-type simulation, in which I have all-atom membrane walls parallel to xy plane, at z = -z_0 and z = +z_0 (where z_0 is a constant). I would like to run an NPT

[gmx-users] pressure coupling

2011-12-16 Thread mohammad agha
Dear GROMACS Users I have a warning after doing pr.mdp as followed, I read errors in GROMACS site and checked mailing list, but my warning is only step1 and after that equilibration is run normally till end.  500 steps, 15.0 ps. step 0 Step 1  Warning: pressure scaling more than 1%,

Re: [gmx-users] pressure coupling

2011-12-16 Thread Mark Abraham
On 17/12/2011 4:58 PM, mohammad agha wrote: Dear GROMACS Users I have a warning after doing pr.mdp as followed, I read errors in GROMACS site and checked mailing list, but my warning is only step1 and after that equilibration is run normally till end. 500 steps, 15.0 ps. step 0

Re: [gmx-users] pressure coupling

2011-12-16 Thread mohammad agha
From: Mark Abraham mark.abra...@anu.edu.au To: Discussion list for GROMACS users gmx-users@gromacs.org Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 10:22 AM Subject: Re: [gmx-users] pressure coupling On 17/12/2011 5:40 PM, mohammad agha wrote: Thank you very much. Excuse me, I did

[gmx-users] Pressure coupling problem

2011-04-15 Thread Fabian Casteblanco
Thank you Justin and Peter for your responses. I tried extending the time on the npt equilibration. It helped but not much. My final pressure after the MD run was about 1.15 bar compared to ref_p which was set to 1 bar. Peter, I will try to analyze the potential error using RMSD and Drift.

[gmx-users] Pressure coupling problem

2011-04-11 Thread Fabian Casteblanco
Hi, I'm still in my first few months of using Gromacs. I started by creating an *.itp and *.top file for *Ethanol* using CHARMM force field parameters. I made the molecule and it looked fine, put 1000 molecules in a box, energy minimized it to a negative potential energy, viewed it on VMD,

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling problem

2011-04-11 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Fabian Casteblanco wrote: Hi, I'm still in my first few months of using Gromacs. I started by creating an *.itp and *.top file for /Ethanol/ using CHARMM force field parameters. I made the molecule and it looked fine, put 1000 molecules in a box, energy minimized it to a negative

[gmx-users] Pressure coupling problem

2011-04-11 Thread Fabian Casteblanco
Hi, I'm still in my first few months of using Gromacs.  I started by creating an *.itp and *.top file for Ethanol using CHARMM force field parameters.  I made the molecule and it looked fine, put 1000 molecules in a box, energy minimized it to a negative potential energy, viewed it on VMD, again

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling problem

2011-04-11 Thread Peter C. Lai
So your density graph looks stabilized? I also tend to look for changes in box x, y, z as well since the scale of their changes is easier to track. Sometimes it helps to look at the error vs. rmsd vs total drift statistics as well for such parameters that are easier to track - again if density

[gmx-users] pressure coupling not enough values (I need 2)

2010-09-15 Thread afsaneh maleki
Hi, grompp show the error as below: ERROR: pressure coupling not enough values (I need 2) I used ref_p =1. In file.mdp How to solve this problem? thanks in advance, Afsaneh -- gmx-users mailing listgmx-users@gromacs.org http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users

Re: [gmx-users] pressure coupling not enough values (I need 2)

2010-09-15 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
afsaneh maleki wrote: Hi, grompp show the error as below: ERROR: pressure coupling not enough values (I need 2) I used ref_p =1. In file.mdp How to solve this problem? Without seeing the rest of your pressure coupling settings, I can only assume that you're using

[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] 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] 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

[gmx-users] pressure coupling

2010-07-05 Thread Shuangxing Dai
Hi, all, I am trying to do anisotropic coupling using Parrinello-Rahman. I want to reach the equilibrium state at 1000K, 0.1MPa( 1 bar). However, I find that the fluctuation is so large ( p=80.22 bar, T=1007.23 K, fluctuation is 626 bar for pressure and 11.21 K for temperature.) I run

Re: [gmx-users] pressure coupling

2010-07-05 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Shuangxing Dai wrote: Hi, all, I am trying to do anisotropic coupling using Parrinello-Rahman. I want to reach the equilibrium state at 1000K, 0.1MPa( 1 bar). However, I find that the fluctuation is so large ( p=80.22 bar, T=1007.23 K, fluctuation is 626 bar for pressure and 11.21 K

Re: [gmx-users] pressure coupling

2010-07-05 Thread Shuangxing Dai
do not know the criteria of Gromacs. Or maybe my procedure is wrong? Message: 1 Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:39:30 -0400 From: Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu Subject: Re: [gmx-users] pressure coupling To: Discussion list for GROMACS users gmx-users@gromacs.org Message-ID: 4c31eea2.7070...@vt.edu

Re: [gmx-users] pressure coupling

2010-07-05 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
to large fluctuations (due to its size). -Justin Message: 1 Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:39:30 -0400 From: Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu mailto:jalem...@vt.edu Subject: Re: [gmx-users] pressure coupling To: Discussion list for GROMACS users gmx-users@gromacs.org mailto:gmx-users@gromacs.org

[gmx-users] Pressure Coupling: Scaling of Coordinates is Occurring - why?

2010-01-15 Thread Christopher Rowan
Hi Gromacs Users, Pressure coupling is not supposed to scale the coordinates of my frozen group, yet it is. My frozen group is a crystal structure that does not have any topology assigned to them: no bond, angle, dihedral constants etc. specified. I find that a crystal structure gets

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling and cut-off

2009-05-15 Thread Yanmei Song
Dear Justin: Thank you for your suggestions. using shift for vdwtype helps a lot. Can I ask you another question? The density of my system is about 8% larger than the experimental value. Do you have any suggestions on how to reduce the density of the system. Or once the force field and all the

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling and cut-off

2009-05-15 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Yanmei Song wrote: Dear Justin: Thank you for your suggestions. using shift for vdwtype helps a lot. Can I ask you another question? The density of my system is about 8% larger than the experimental value. Do you have any suggestions on how to reduce the density of the system. Or once the

[gmx-users] Pressure coupling and cut-off

2009-05-14 Thread Yanmei Song
Dear All: I have question about the pressure coupling. I have done a 10ns simulation with 19800 atoms for 120 large molecules using the following pressure coupling. Tcoupl = berendsen tc_grps = PDM tau_t = 0.1 ref_t = 300 Pcoupl

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling and cut-off

2009-05-14 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Yanmei Song wrote: Dear All: I have question about the pressure coupling. I have done a 10ns simulation with 19800 atoms for 120 large molecules using the following pressure coupling. Tcoupl = berendsen tc_grps = PDM tau_t = 0.1 ref_t

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling and cut-off

2009-05-14 Thread Yanmei Song
Dear Justin: Thanks for your response. Here is the complete my .mdp file: title = pdm cpp = /lib/cpp constraints = all_bonds integrator = md dt = 0.004 ; ps ! nsteps = 250 ; total 10ns. nstcomm

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling and cut-off

2009-05-14 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Yanmei Song wrote: Dear Justin: Thanks for your response. Here is the complete my .mdp file: title = pdm cpp = /lib/cpp constraints = all_bonds integrator = md dt = 0.004 ; ps ! nsteps = 250 ; total

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem

2009-04-13 Thread Lucio Montero
: Re: [gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem I finally figured it out. I went through every parameter step by step and it turns our I had epsilon-r set to 80. Not sure why I had that. Wish gromacs would have given me a warning (hint hint). That explains why my P.E. was 10^-5 instead of 10^-6

[gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem

2009-04-10 Thread chris . neale
Alright, sorry that I wasn't able to help. I'm confused by some apparent contradictions in your posts and I'm not sure that I'm going to be useful to you here. Quoting http://www.gromacs.org/pipermail/gmx-users/2009-April/041173.html: No matter how much minimization I do the volume of

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem

2009-04-09 Thread Joe Joe
So I got my small water box (800 waters) to behave stably with pressure coupling after more minimization but I still can't get my large system to work with pressure coupling. I tried minimizing but I can never get the Fmax to be less 10^2, which is pretty normal for protein/water simulations of

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem

2009-04-09 Thread Joe Joe
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Joe Joe wrote: So I got my small water box (800 waters) to behave stably with pressure coupling after more minimization but I still can't get my large system to work with pressure coupling. I tried minimizing but I can

[gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem

2009-04-09 Thread Chris Neale
So your problem with the small water box was solved simply by adding more minimization? I then suspect that all of your problems are simply related to a bad starting structure -- and by the sound of it is really is very bad. Are you sure that you don't have an angstrom / nm problem here?

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem

2009-04-08 Thread Joe Joe
HI Chris, On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:31 PM, chris.ne...@utoronto.ca wrote: Hi Ilya, First thing that comes to mind is that it is strange to couple a coulombic switching function with PME. While this could possibly be done correctly, I doubt that it is in fact done in the way that you expect

[gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem

2009-04-08 Thread chris . neale
Hi Ilya, If you did include the entire mdp file then you have a time step of 4 fs and no constraints (other than water). For a timestep of 2 fs, you should constrain all-bonds (or some would say at least h-bonds) and for 4 fs then you should also constrain angles involving hydrogens

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem

2009-04-08 Thread Joe Joe
Hi Chris, When I create the topology for the 4fs timestep I use pdb2gmx -vsite h. I set up the correct constraints. I've tested it and it conserves energy in NVE. I run all he sims with constraints=all-bonds. I am now running a single water box (800 water molecules) with 1s time steps and the

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem

2009-04-08 Thread Justin A. Lemkul
Joe Joe wrote: Hi Chris, When I create the topology for the 4fs timestep I use pdb2gmx -vsite h. I set up the correct constraints. I've tested it and it conserves energy in NVE. I run all he sims with constraints=all-bonds. I am now running a single water box (800 water molecules) with 1s

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem

2009-04-08 Thread Roland Schulz
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Joe Joe ilcho...@gmail.com wrote: HI Chris, On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:31 PM, chris.ne...@utoronto.ca wrote: Hi Ilya, First thing that comes to mind is that it is strange to couple a coulombic switching function with PME. While this could possibly be done

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem

2009-04-08 Thread Joe Joe
Yeah I only gave a partial. Tried to remove the QM params. I do use constraints = all-bonds. On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:18 AM, chris.ne...@utoronto.ca wrote: You say I run all he sims with constraints=all-bonds, but I don't see that in the mdp options that you provided. I even put your text in

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem

2009-04-08 Thread Joe Joe
I tried .1, and 10 ps tau_p values. I guess I can try smaller values. On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Justin A. Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: Joe Joe wrote: Hi Chris, When I create the topology for the 4fs timestep I use pdb2gmx -vsite h. I set up the correct constraints. I've tested

[gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem

2009-04-07 Thread chris . neale
Hi Ilya, First thing that comes to mind is that it is strange to couple a coulombic switching function with PME. While this could possibly be done correctly, I doubt that it is in fact done in the way that you expect (i.e. correctly) in gromacs. In fact, I think that grompp/mdrun should

[gmx-users] Pressure Coupling Problem

2009-04-07 Thread Joe Joe
Hi I am having some pressure coupling issues. I have a fairly large protein/water system 400K+ atoms. It minimizes just fine (F 1000). If I run NVE it conserves energy with appropriate parameter settings. If I run NVT it is stable. When I turn on Pcoupl (i.e. Berendsen or Parinello Rahman), the

[gmx-users] Pressure coupling

2008-08-11 Thread Matteus Lindgren
Hi all! I am quite new to Gromacs and am wondering why I can´t see any box fluctuations during a NPT run of protein + urea solvent in dodecahedron. In the energy output file I can see that the Box-X,Y,Z values only fluctuate 1%. However the pressure average is reasonably close to the ref_p

[gmx-users] Pressure Coupling for DPPC Bilayers

2008-02-25 Thread Sona Aramyan
Hello, Would the following be a reasonable way to implement anisotropic pressure coupling, for a 128 DPPC /3655 water bilayer with an aminoacid on it: ; Pressure coupling is on Pcoupl = parrinello-rahman pcoupltype = anisotropic tau_p = 1.0 1.0 1.0 0 0 0 compressibility = 4.5e-5 4.5e-5

[gmx-users] pressure coupling for bilayers

2007-11-16 Thread pragya chohan
hi i want to rum a NPT ensemble on my bilayer+protein system. What is the best pcoupletype to use. I have seen some posts on gmx user group advising anisotriopic type with tau_p 5.0 ps cpmpressibility: 4.5e-5 4.5e-5 4.5e-5 0.0 0.0 0.0 Another suggestion is welcome. Thanks in advance Pragya

Re: [gmx-users] pressure coupling for bilayers

2007-11-16 Thread Xavier Periole
semiisotropic is more indicated for bilayers. pragya chohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i want to rum a NPT ensemble on my bilayer+protein system. What is the best pcoupletype to use. I have seen some posts on gmx user group advising anisotriopic type with tau_p 5.0 ps cpmpressibility:

[gmx-users] Pressure coupling and tau_p values

2007-08-17 Thread toma0052
Hello, I am simulating a lipid bilayer system under a shear stress, in which I am interested in looking at the surface tension. I have done a number of simulations in an NPT ensemble using semiisotropic Berendsen pressure coupling. For a system such as this, I am wondering what would be an

[gmx-users] Pressure coupling and tau_p values

2007-08-17 Thread chris . neale
For example, a 3ns simulation using a tau_p of 0.5 I get a surface tension of 30 dynes/cm and using a tau_p of 5.0 I get a surface tension of 25 dynes/cm. First thing that comes to mind is that your area per lipid is not at equilibrium. Assuming that your bilayer normal lies in the Z

[gmx-users] Pressure Coupling

2007-04-30 Thread George Abadir
Hi, I want to fix the pressure during the simulation so I use pressure coupling. I set the reference potential to 1 (the unit is bar as the manual says). Nevertheless, the log file shows much higher pressures (can reach the order of 1e+03 and again it seems the unit is bar). Moreover, it

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure Coupling

2007-04-30 Thread George Abadir
Thank you very much for the reply, and I'll try to better search the board first :) Cheers, George Dallas B. Warren wrote: Issue like this has been discussed previously, try searching the emailing list for a solution first before posting. Means you get your answer faster :-) Pressure is a

[gmx-users] Pressure coupling question

2007-02-09 Thread toma0052
Hello, I am simulating a lipid bilayer system, and am having some trouble understanding the pressure output. When I run a simulation, even when I do not add any perturbations or fix any atoms, the pressure oscillations are quite large. The temperature coupling seems fine. After about 1ps,

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling question

2007-02-09 Thread David van der Spoel
toma0052 wrote: Hello, I am simulating a lipid bilayer system, and am having some trouble understanding the pressure output. When I run a simulation, even when I do not add any perturbations or fix any atoms, the pressure oscillations are quite large. The temperature coupling seems fine.

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling appears to produce errors on the P655+ aix 5.2

2006-08-02 Thread David van der Spoel
Arthur Roberts wrote: Hi, All, I would like to thank Carsten Kutzner, Erik Lindahl, and David van der Spoel for their advise with my previous problem with not getting any data with mdrun. It turned out to be due to the fourier spacing and the PME order. In addition, David van der Spoel's