Re: [gmx-users] Invalid selection near '&' syntax error -- easy way to avoid?

2016-05-20 Thread Christopher Neale
erful. The former is not going to get enhanced given that the latter exists. Mark On Sat, 21 May 2016 00:14 Justin Lemkul wrote: > > > On 5/20/16 5:54 PM, Christopher Neale wrote: > > Dear Users: > > > > I find that gmx make_ndx will create groups with names that have &g

[gmx-users] Invalid selection near '&' syntax error -- easy way to avoid?

2016-05-20 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: I find that gmx make_ndx will create groups with names that have ampersands in them and that this complicates piping the group name back into an analysis tool. I have included an example below. There is an obvious solution with sed to rename the group in the .ndx file after creation

[gmx-users] make_ndx treats "&" and "AND" differently -- expected?

2016-05-20 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: In an attempt to get around the '&' issue in index group names, I have tried using the 'AND' keyword, which is noted in the gmx make_ndx -h output. Indeed, the word "AND" replaces the ampersand in the index group in this case. However, the selection seems broken to me. Details are b

Re: [gmx-users] OPLS problem

2016-05-20 Thread Christopher Neale
Sent: 20 May 2016 13:37:01 To: Christopher Neale Subject: Re: [gmx-users] OPLS problem Thanks Christopher I was using, as it is recommended, TIP4P. When I switched to TIP3P I no longer get the error. So what do I do if I want to use TIP4P? Steve On Friday, May 20, 2016 11:06 AM, Christopher Nea

Re: [gmx-users] OPLS problem

2016-05-20 Thread Christopher Neale
Did you select tip4p? It has 4 "atoms" per water molecule. From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se on behalf of Steve Seibold Sent: 20 May 2016 11:38 To: gmx-us...@gromacs.org Subject: [gmx-users] OPLS problem HelloI have gromacs 4.5.4

Re: [gmx-users] Pull code slows down mdrun -- is this expected?

2016-05-19 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Szilárd: I think that my ranks were set up similarly for GPU and non-GPU runs, though you can see how I ran the jobs below. One thing that I also already checked, but that I have not pasted here, is that all runs got the same DD and PME grid reported from the log file (4x1x1 for each in al

Re: [gmx-users] Pull code slows down mdrun -- is this expected?

2016-05-17 Thread Christopher Neale
t: 17 May 2016 17:12:52 To: gmx-us...@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Pull code slows down mdrun -- is this expected? Hi, On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:41 PM Christopher Neale < chris.ne...@alum.utoronto.ca> wrote: > Dear Mark: > > GROMACS-2016-beta1 is not any faster for this test case wh

Re: [gmx-users] Pull code slows down mdrun -- is this expected?

2016-05-17 Thread Christopher Neale
May 17, 2016 at 9:30 PM Christopher Neale < chris.ne...@alum.utoronto.ca> wrote: > These benchmarking numbers are from gromacs v5.1.2. Forgot to mention that > in my initial post. > > > From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@mailli

Re: [gmx-users] Pull code slows down mdrun -- is this expected?

2016-05-17 Thread Christopher Neale
to do. Cheers, Mark On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 9:30 PM Christopher Neale < chris.ne...@alum.utoronto.ca> wrote: > These benchmarking numbers are from gromacs v5.1.2. Forgot to mention that > in my initial post. > > > From:

Re: [gmx-users] Calculating Distance

2016-05-17 Thread Christopher Neale
In case anybody else finds the gmx distance input as confusing as I did... if you want to get the distance between the center of mass of the peptide and the center of mass of the SDS, you would first create Protein and SDS groups in an index file (say they are groups 1 and 2), then send that to

Re: [gmx-users] Pull code slows down mdrun -- is this expected?

2016-05-17 Thread Christopher Neale
These benchmarking numbers are from gromacs v5.1.2. Forgot to mention that in my initial post. From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se on behalf of Christopher Neale Sent: 17 May 2016 15:27:37 To: gmx-us...@gromacs.org Subject: [gmx

[gmx-users] Pull code slows down mdrun -- is this expected?

2016-05-17 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: I am writing to ask if it is expected that the pull code slows down gromacs in such a way that a single pull group has fairly minor effect, but many groups collectively really bring down the throughput. Based on Mark's response to my previous post about the free energy code slowing

Re: [gmx-users] Relative binding free energy from a neutral to a charged molecule

2016-05-06 Thread Christopher Neale
Maybe this: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/124/22/10.1063/1.2201698 ? Can't claim to understand it though. If it were me, I'd pick another project or pick another method. From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se on beha

Re: [gmx-users] mdrun -rerun does not reproduce itself

2016-04-26 Thread Christopher Neale
ubject: Re: [gmx-users] mdrun -rerun does not reproduce itself Hi, Thanks (yet again) for your vigilance! On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 7:44 PM Christopher Neale < chris.ne...@alum.utoronto.ca> wrote: > Dear Users: > > I find that running gromacs 5.1.2 mdrun -rerun many times gives diff

[gmx-users] mdrun -rerun does not reproduce itself

2016-04-26 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: I find that running gromacs 5.1.2 mdrun -rerun many times gives different energies for some components. On GPUs I find that its the SR interactions (both LJ and q) that are inconsistent. On CPU only, I find that its the Coul. recip. that is inconsistent. On CPU only with NPME=1 I fi

Re: [gmx-users] REMD--how to determine the temperature distribution

2016-04-25 Thread Christopher Neale
There are many published approaches. Here is the one that I use: http://origami.phys.rpi.edu/racc/rate_of_acceptance.php Another example is here: http://folding.bmc.uu.se/remd/ From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se on behalf of YanhuaOu

Re: [gmx-users] Dihedral convention

2016-04-18 Thread Christopher Neale
one that I admit is easy to test. Thank you, Chris. From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se on behalf of Mark Abraham Sent: 18 April 2016 06:59 To: gmx-us...@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Dihedral convention Hi, On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:10

Re: [gmx-users] Water molecule starting at atom 18511 can not be settled

2016-04-16 Thread Christopher Neale
Then don't use settle for your minimization? (mdp option define = -DFLEXIBLE for most water models) You can always turn it on again and run another EM after whatever problematic configurational feature has relaxed. From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@mail

Re: [gmx-users] what is the source of "CHL1" cholesterol in the gromacs charmm port?

2016-04-15 Thread Christopher Neale
acs charmm port? On 4/15/16 1:29 AM, Christopher Neale wrote: > > Dear Users: > > When I look at charmm36-jun2015.ff/merged.rtp downloaded from > http://mackerell.umaryland.edu/charmm_ff.shtml , it has a cholesterol > molecule named CHL1. However, I do not find such a molec

[gmx-users] what is the source of "CHL1" cholesterol in the gromacs charmm port?

2016-04-14 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: When I look at charmm36-jun2015.ff/merged.rtp downloaded from http://mackerell.umaryland.edu/charmm_ff.shtml , it has a cholesterol molecule named CHL1. However, I do not find such a molecule in the charmm-specific toppar_c36_feb16.tgz downloaded from the same site. In the later ta

Re: [gmx-users] Dihedral convention

2016-04-14 Thread Christopher Neale
s...@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Dihedral convention Hi, Also, the details of angle conventions are all covered in the reference manual. Mark On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 20:37 Christopher Neale wrote: > Make a box with a single molecule of n-butane, no pressure coupling o

Re: [gmx-users] Dihedral convention

2016-04-14 Thread Christopher Neale
Make a box with a single molecule of n-butane, no pressure coupling or pme, use the sd integrator, test it out? From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se on behalf of Parvez Mh Sent: 14 April 2016 12:47 To: gmx-us...@gromacs.org Subject:

Re: [gmx-users] wanted to fix cpn in lipid layer MD, -position/distance restrains

2016-04-12 Thread Christopher Neale
This is not enough detail for us to know what the problem is. Did you set things up correctly so that posre_cpn.itp is actually used? You can check by gmx energy and see if you have restraint energies there. To use these restraints your .top file needs to #include "posre_cpn.itp" , which you can

Re: [gmx-users] desired usage of verlet-buffer-tolerance with charmm ff?

2016-04-08 Thread Christopher Neale
sys.kth.se on behalf of Szilárd Páll Sent: 08 April 2016 06:42 To: Discussion list for GROMACS users Subject: Re: [gmx-users] desired usage of verlet-buffer-tolerance with charmm ff? On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Christopher Neale wrote: > Dear users: > > Charmm mdp options

[gmx-users] desired usage of verlet-buffer-tolerance with charmm ff?

2016-04-07 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear users: Charmm mdp options are listed here: http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Force_Fields/CHARMM with the following values: constraints = h-bonds cutoff-scheme = Verlet vdwtype = cutoff vdw-modifier = force-switch rlist = 1.2 rvdw = 1.2 rvdw-switch = 1.0 coulombtype = PME rc

Re: [gmx-users] position restraints

2016-04-04 Thread Christopher Neale
zegrp = Protein-H, YB and freezedim = Y Y Y Y Y Y? Best, Irem > On Apr 4, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Christopher Neale > wrote: > > I've never understood it, but when your system gets more complicated it is > often necessary to use flexible water during minimization. define = > -DFLEXI

Re: [gmx-users] position restraints

2016-04-04 Thread Christopher Neale
where near the protein). However, the MD simulation seems to be running, after doing the minimization with just position restraints. Is this expected behavior? Best, Irem > On Apr 4, 2016, at 4:23 PM, Christopher Neale > wrote: > > Check the manu

Re: [gmx-users] position restraints

2016-04-04 Thread Christopher Neale
als cut-off pbc = xyz ; Periodic Boundary Conditions (yes/no) Best, Irem > On Apr 4, 2016, at 1:36 PM, Christopher Neale > wrote: > > What did you set for refcoord-scaling ? How are you treating volume/pressure? > Please post a full .mdp file. If you want,

Re: [gmx-users] position restraints

2016-04-04 Thread Christopher Neale
What did you set for refcoord-scaling ? How are you treating volume/pressure? Please post a full .mdp file. If you want, you can simply fix the positions and not let them move at all with freezegrps etc. From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kt

Re: [gmx-users] Restraints Riddle/Pull Puzzle

2016-04-04 Thread Christopher Neale
Possibilities that come to mind: (1) absolute position restraints (2) pull code distance restraints of each arm separately to the bottom of the U (3) put 2x U-shaped proteins in the same box. It takes longer to simulate, but you get twice the sampling (4) go back to the drawing board (this is lik

Re: [gmx-users] Looking for the source of the H-REMD slowdown when decoupling a lot of atoms

2016-04-02 Thread Christopher Neale
of atoms See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/plumed-users/eJ0xpnHPb_s and https://github.com/GiovanniBussi/plumed2/tree/v2.2-hrex Nicolas 2016-04-02 12:09 GMT+02:00 Mark Abraham : > Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:39 PM Christopher Neale < > chris.ne...@alum.uto

Re: [gmx-users] Looking for the source of the H-REMD slowdown when decoupling a lot of atoms

2016-04-01 Thread Christopher Neale
ermediates. Changing the way the code is structured would again require some significant changes and time. On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Christopher Neale wrote: > Dear Szilárd, Mark, and Michael: > > Thank you for your suggestions. > > 1. I did use the icc compiler > 2. I teste

[gmx-users] correction to a typo in the electric conversion factor in one place in the manual

2016-04-01 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Mark: The value of f listed under eq. 4.11 is wrong in the gmx 5.1.2 manual. The correct value is reported on the bottom of page 7 at the start of section 2.2 on "MD Units". I verified this using the values in src/gromac/math/units.h. -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the arch

Re: [gmx-users] Suggestion to update online .mdp options for pull code

2016-03-31 Thread Christopher Neale
macs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Suggestion to update online .mdp options for pull code Hi, On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:23 Christopher Neale wrote: > Dear developers: > > The online manual lists pull-code options here: > http://manual.gromacs.org/current/online/mdp_opt.html#pull No,

[gmx-users] Suggestion to update online .mdp options for pull code

2016-03-31 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear developers: The online manual lists pull-code options here: http://manual.gromacs.org/current/online/mdp_opt.html#pull that seem to have not been updated since: http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/5.1/ReleaseNotes/new-features.html#changed-the-way-pull-directions-are-selected It took m

Re: [gmx-users] Looking for the source of the H-REMD slowdown when decoupling a lot of atoms

2016-03-31 Thread Christopher Neale
> unable to find a function called "gmx_waste_time_here()" and beyond that > I > > was out of my depth. > > > > But it's much more the fact that the non-free energy nonbondeds are > > SUPER optimized. > > > > I don't see a particularly

Re: [gmx-users] a question related to minim.mdp

2016-03-31 Thread Christopher Neale
It depends on what you want to do. If you simply want to minimize the system so that the dynamics will be stable in MD, then I have never needed more than 500 steps of minimization (though in some cases I find it necessary to use flexible waters and solutes via the mdp options define=-DFLEXIBLE

Re: [gmx-users] where are the release notes for versions 5.1.1 and 5.1.2?

2016-03-30 Thread Christopher Neale
, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:42 PM Christopher Neale < chris.ne...@alum.utoronto.ca> wrote: > Dear Users: > > I find release notes for gromacs 5.1 here: > http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/5.1/ReleaseNotes/index.html . The > text on that site ( "These release notes document

Re: [gmx-users] *.pdb file for the Tip4p/ice model

2016-03-30 Thread Christopher Neale
Need it for what? To solvate a solute with genbox or for some other sytem setup needs? Common protocol would be to simply use tip4p.gro and then to equilibrate it with the new tip4p/ice parameters. tip4p.gro is in share/gromacs/top/ Chris. From: gromacs.

[gmx-users] where are the release notes for versions 5.1.1 and 5.1.2?

2016-03-30 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: I find release notes for gromacs 5.1 here: http://manual.gromacs.org/documentation/5.1/ReleaseNotes/index.html . The text on that site ( "These release notes document the functionality changes that have taken place in GROMACS since version 5.0." ) is kind of vague and I am not sure

[gmx-users] Looking for the source of the H-REMD slowdown when decoupling a lot of atoms

2016-03-29 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: I am trying to do some Hamiltonian replica exchange (H-REMD) in gromacs 5.1.2 and am running up against really large slowdowns when decoupling a large number of atoms. I am decoupling 5360 atoms out of the 15520 atoms in my system. The goal is not to get a PMF, but to enhance sampl

Re: [gmx-users] REMD and distance restraints problem in gmx 4.6.7

2015-09-18 Thread Christopher Neale
To: gmx-us...@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] REMD and distance restraints problem in gmx 4.6.7 Hi, On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 6:27 AM Christopher Neale < chris.ne...@alum.utoronto.ca> wrote: > Dear Users: > > I have a system with many distance restraints, designed to maintain >

[gmx-users] REMD and distance restraints problem in gmx 4.6.7

2015-09-17 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: I have a system with many distance restraints, designed to maintain helical character, e.g.: [ distance_restraints ] 90 33 1 1 2 2.745541e-01 3.122595e-01 999 1.0 97 57 1 2 2 2.876300e-01 2.892921e-01 999 1.0 114 73 1 3 2 2.704403e-01 2.929642e-01 999 1.0 ... Distance restraints are

Re: [gmx-users] PMF using umbrella sampling and Gromacs 5.0

2015-08-08 Thread Christopher Neale
São José dos Campos - SP > Página: sites.google.com/site/fileti/ > > >> -- >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 02:45:50 + >> From: Christopher Neale >> To: "gmx-us...@gromacs.org" >> Subje

Re: [gmx-users] PMF using umbrella sampling and Gromacs 5.0

2015-07-28 Thread Christopher Neale
> > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 02:45:50 + > From: Christopher Neale > To: "gmx-us...@gromacs.org" > Subject: Re: [gmx-users] PMF using umbrella sampling and Gromacs 5.0 > (Eudes Fileti) > Message-ID: > < > blu

Re: [gmx-users] PMF using umbrella sampling and Gromacs 5.0 (Eudes Fileti)

2015-07-25 Thread Christopher Neale
_ Eudes Eterno Fileti Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia da UNIFESP Rua Talim, 330, São José dos Campos - SP Página: sites.google.com/site/fileti/ > > -- > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:56:50 + > From: Christopher Neale > To: "

[gmx-users] gromacs 5 pdb2gmx does not faithfully reproduce the AMBER99sb-ILDN force field

2015-07-22 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: I believe that gromacs 5 pdb2gmx does not faithfully reproduce the AMBER99sb-ILDN force field. I wanted to make a notice here so that people who are using that combination can compare the topologies they get out of gromacs 5 pdb2gmx to gromacs 4 pdb2gmx. Details are here: http://re

Re: [gmx-users] PMF using umbrella sampling and Gromacs 5.0

2015-07-22 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Eudes: There are two issues: The first issue is the fact that you've got a sampling problem near the bilayer center. The second issue is the periodic bumps that you see in your PMFs. I'll take the second part first. The source of the periodic bumps in PMFs from umbrella sampling is, to me,

Re: [gmx-users] Why is there a difference between an angle of 0 or 180 deg. for a type 9 proper dihedral with multiplicity of 2?

2015-07-05 Thread Christopher Neale
: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se on behalf of Justin Lemkul Sent: 05 July 2015 13:12 To: gmx-us...@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Why is there a difference between an angle of 0 or 180 deg. for a type 9 proper dihedral with multiplicity of 2? On 7/5/15 9:10 AM, Christopher Neale

Re: [gmx-users] Why is there a difference between an angle of 0 or 180 deg. for a type 9 proper dihedral with multiplicity of 2?

2015-07-05 Thread Christopher Neale
r a type 9 proper dihedral with multiplicity of 2? On 7/5/15 12:56 AM, Christopher Neale wrote: > Dear Justin: > > Thank you for your help. I am glad to see that I was not way out to lunch in > my interpretation of multiplicity and proper dihedral angles. > > First, the out-of-plane motions

Re: [gmx-users] Why is there a difference between an angle of 0 or 180 deg. for a type 9 proper dihedral with multiplicity of 2?

2015-07-04 Thread Christopher Neale
Verified same behaviour in gromacs 4.6.7 and 5.0.5 for the Phe-Phe system. From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se on behalf of Christopher Neale Sent: 05 July 2015 00:56 To: gmx-us...@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Why is there a

Re: [gmx-users] Why is there a difference between an angle of 0 or 180 deg. for a type 9 proper dihedral with multiplicity of 2?

2015-07-04 Thread Christopher Neale
on behalf of Justin Lemkul Sent: 04 July 2015 09:41 To: gmx-us...@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Why is there a difference between an angle of 0 or 180 deg. for a type 9 proper dihedral with multiplicity of 2? On 7/4/15 3:32 AM, Christopher Neale wrote: > Dear Gromacs users: > &g

[gmx-users] Why is there a difference between an angle of 0 or 180 deg. for a type 9 proper dihedral with multiplicity of 2?

2015-07-04 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Gromacs users: I have been working on creating a topology for an exotic molecule. It contains aromatic rings and my parameters always seemed to allow the rings to buckle and become non-planer, much like a glucose ring would (though a little less extensively). However, I have managed to sol

Re: [gmx-users] PBC issue

2015-07-04 Thread Christopher Neale
If you just want to make a new, larger water box, try editconf to make the box larger and then genbox to add water. Any help beyond than that requires us to guess at at least four questions: What is an "unloading simulation" How did you "pull a protein" What exactly do you mean by "both ends of

Re: [gmx-users] make_ndx question

2015-05-27 Thread Christopher Neale
what about "editconf -f orig.pdb -o new.gro" followed by figuring out the new residue numbers and running make_ndx on new.gro ? I don't think you'll need the "-resnr 1" editconf flag, but if you run into other problems then you might try that. Chris.

[gmx-users] Trojan version of putty software

2015-05-25 Thread Christopher Neale
Not gromacs specific, but I thought it was worth posting here. Basically, if you use putty, check the "about" button and make sure that you don't see the text "unidentified build". http://blogs.cisco.com/security/trojanized-putty-software -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the arch

Re: [gmx-users] Can we convert one job into many serial jobs?

2015-05-25 Thread Christopher Neale
Sounds like you are asking for packed nodes on a cluster that allows jobs to take only a single core of a full node. You should do some benchmarking to see what performance you get when you allow your mpi job to use distributed cores (rather than packed nodes). You'll need to run a few repeats o

Re: [gmx-users] Segmentation fault (core dumped) version 4.6.*

2015-05-21 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Carlos: Are you using a .top file from gromacs 5 with your gromacs 4 runs? If so, try regenerating your topology (and .itp files) using gromacs 4 (with GMXLIB set correctly). Not sure if that would even cause a problem, but it seems like it probably would and is the only thing that comes t

Re: [gmx-users] build nuance in gmx5 (avoiding "file INSTALL cannot find gmx")

2015-05-21 Thread Christopher Neale
and dirty install steps suggest: http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Installation_Instructions_5.0#quick-and-dirty-installation -- Szilárd On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Christopher Neale wrote: > Dear Users: > > This is just a note about compiling gromacs 5 so that the solution can be > found by

[gmx-users] build nuance in gmx5 (avoiding "file INSTALL cannot find gmx")

2015-05-21 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: This is just a note about compiling gromacs 5 so that the solution can be found by others if they need it. I used to compile gromacs like this: download and unpack tarball cd gromacs-5.0.5 mkdir source mv * source mkdir exec cd exec ** run my build script from here, using CMAKE_INST

Re: [gmx-users] pdb2gmx: can we use a file to specify the protonation instead of using "-inter"?

2015-05-21 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Cheng: You can define protonation states like this: echo "0 1 2" | pdb2gmx -ff amber99sb-ildn -water tip3p -his That will give you, in order for three HIS residues: 0. H on ND1 only (HID) 1. H on NE2 only (HIE) 2. H on ND1 and NE2 (HIP) You can also use -inter, but you'll need to do a dry-

[gmx-users] links errors at 700 or 800 K

2015-05-21 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: I have a system with an 8-mer peptide in a box of water. After a 2-ns npt equilibration, I run 100 ns of nvt at various temperatures (300-800 K) in preparation for a REMD simulation. I am using velocity langevin for temperature control. Everything is fine for <=600 K. Above that,

Re: [gmx-users] mdp options for charmm27 force field in gromacs version 4.6.7

2015-05-19 Thread Christopher Neale
-users] mdp options for charmm27 force field in gromacs version 4.6.7 Hi On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:35 AM Christopher Neale < chris.ne...@alum.utoronto.ca> wrote: > Dear Justin: > > Thank you for the suggestion. I don't use gromacs 5 because of things like > this: http://red

Re: [gmx-users] mdp options for charmm27 force field in gromacs version 4.6.7

2015-05-18 Thread Christopher Neale
mx-us...@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] mdp options for charmm27 force field in gromacs version 4.6.7 On 5/18/15 2:21 PM, Christopher Neale wrote: > Dear Users: > > I would like to use the charmm27 force field in gromacs version 4.6.7 and I > would like to know if it is possible

[gmx-users] mdp options for charmm27 force field in gromacs version 4.6.7

2015-05-18 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: I would like to use the charmm27 force field in gromacs version 4.6.7 and I would like to know if it is possible to get the proper treatment of vdw interactions. Information for gromacs 5 is here: http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Force_Fields/CHARMM However, Gromacs

Re: [gmx-users] Hamiltonian replica exchange with solute tempering in 5.x version (bug?)

2015-05-13 Thread Christopher Neale
I don't think it is a bug per se, more like something the developers didn't consider. The HREX fork of the plumed code (which only works right now for v. 4 of gromacs) does what you want (and it does it a lot faster if your heated group is large since the gromacs free energy code is inexplicable

Re: [gmx-users] Subject: Re: how to avoid multiple 'aprun' on batch job script?

2015-05-09 Thread Christopher Neale
If your sysadmin has a hard rule against multiple aprun instances then that is something that we obviously can't fix ;) However, I will note that (with mpirun) on some clusters multiple sequential instances will work and on other clusters it simply does not. The issue on some of these clusters i

Re: [gmx-users] gromacs-5.0.4 installation problem

2015-05-07 Thread Christopher Neale
Gromacs only notified you about turning off the GPU code, that was not an error. The error was the AVX vs. SSE4.1 problem. Not sure why you are getting that since I thought cmake would get these things straight. Chris. From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun..

Re: [gmx-users] Gas phase simulation

2015-05-06 Thread Christopher Neale
nm. Which means by pulling from 11nm to 6 nm I am passing from organic layer and reached the water bulk. In mdp file: A is one water molecule B is the bulk water Maybe I should play with pulling rate and force constant? On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Christopher Neale < chris.ne...@alum.

Re: [gmx-users] Gas phase simulation

2015-05-06 Thread Christopher Neale
more figures to check the statistics which are bsProfs and bsResult. There is also histogram image. On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Christopher Neale < chris.ne...@alum.utoronto.ca> wrote: > post the images elsewhere and the post a link on this list. I did not get > the attachment. >

Re: [gmx-users] question about g_sas

2015-05-05 Thread Christopher Neale
This is actually kind of unfortunate. I'm not sure where these gromacs VDW radii come from, but they're nowhere near what I presume to be the standards (either Bondi et al. or something similar). Note that even the recent updates to the Bondi values are very minor in comparison to the difference

Re: [gmx-users] 35% Variability in Simulation Performance

2015-05-05 Thread Christopher Neale
I didn't read the whole thread, just chiming in based on the title. I can see up to 3x differences in performance when using clusters that don't pack nodes. If you're using a cluster that is set up this way, then it can make a huge difference how may cores you get on each node and how many switc

Re: [gmx-users] Gas phase simulation

2015-05-05 Thread Christopher Neale
d by bulk phase. However I can not capture this maxima on free energy if I do not restraint my organic molecules. Here you can find my density profile for water and organic layer. ​ On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Christopher Neale < chris.ne...@alum.utoronto.ca> wrote: > Dear Gozde: >

[gmx-users] Gas phase simulation

2015-05-05 Thread Christopher Neale
ving physically realistically and ii) if not then why not (i.e., adjust the parameters). Chris. ____ From: gozde ergin Sent: 05 May 2015 07:16 To: Christopher Neale Subject: Fwd: About 2011 paper -- Forwarded message -- From: gozde ergin mailto:go

Re: [gmx-users] umbrella sampling and PMF calculation by using pull-geometry=direction in gromacs 5.0.4

2015-05-05 Thread Christopher Neale
I see your confusion now. The PMF is actually defined as dG(x) + C, where C is some unknown constant. Therefore, in the left figure, you have "dG_a(x) + C_a" and on the right you have "dG_b(x) + C_b", so if the profiles have the same shape then the PMFs can be identical if C_a is different from

Re: [gmx-users] umbrella sampling and PMF calculation by using pull-geometry=direction in gromacs 5.0.4

2015-05-04 Thread Christopher Neale
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Re: [gmx-users] umbrella sampling and PMF calculation by using pull-geometry=direction in gromacs 5.0.4

2015-05-03 Thread Christopher Neale
Better yet, repeat something that is already out there in the literature. PMFs for water, lipids, and some amino acid side chains across the bilayer have been tested extensively. Chris. From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se on behalf

Re: [gmx-users] umbrella sampling and PMF calculation by using pull-geometry=direction in gromacs 5.0.4

2015-05-03 Thread Christopher Neale
Take a look at profiles in the literature for arginine across a bilayer. It has a maximum at the center. Probably true for any molecule with a large charge/molecular weight ratio. For more help you'd likely have to reveal your system and provide an image of the PMF. However, there is no reason t

Re: [gmx-users] Steered MD simulation of drug molecules across the plasma membrane in gromacs 5.0.4

2015-04-29 Thread Christopher Neale
correctness. (there may be chances that I may have understood the parameters wrongly), and from this simulation I want to do the umbrella sampling for free energy calculation. with regards Mahender Singh > Hi > Christopher Neale and Justin > > I used now following pull code (wha

Re: [gmx-users] Steered MD simulation of drug molecules across the plasma membrane in gromacs 5.0.4

2015-04-22 Thread Christopher Neale
romacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se on behalf of Justin Lemkul Sent: 22 April 2015 08:12 To: gmx-us...@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Steered MD simulation of drug molecules across the plasma membrane in gromacs 5.0.4 On 4/21/15 6:54 AM, Christopher Neale wrote: > Dear Ma

Re: [gmx-users] Steered MD simulation of drug molecules across the plasma membrane in gromacs 5.0.4

2015-04-21 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Mahender: It's a real pity that the pull_geometry = position has been removed. So now it's impossible to do umbrella sampling of a solute across a lipid bilayer properly? Anyway, I see a note about this removal here ( http://redmine.gromacs.org/issues/1346 ), though no reason is given. I'd

Re: [gmx-users] calculating free energy

2015-04-18 Thread Christopher Neale
How about temperature replica exchange with de novo folding, then convert the probabilities of the folded and unfolded states into a free energy difference? You'll obviously need to be really careful about cutting off a sufficient amount of initial simulation time as equilibration, but you might

Re: [gmx-users] angle distribution between a vector and Z axis

2015-04-18 Thread Christopher Neale
You can get the coordinates of all P and N atoms with g_traj and then write an awk script to process the output (determine the angles and make the histogram). But if g_angle in gromacs 5 can do it, then why not just use that? Many analysis programs will take a .gro file for the -s option, and if

Re: [gmx-users] (no subject)

2015-04-18 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Bahare: this is not necessarily a problem. If what you are saying is that in two separate runs of the same system from the same coordinates you got different trajectories then this is expected under most conditions: http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Terminology/Reproducibility However,

Re: [gmx-users] crashed runs

2015-04-18 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Bahare: what data does not match what other thing? What type of crash did you encounter? What version of gromacs? etc... Please provide as much detail as you can. As your question stands, we could as easily answer the question "how deep is water?" Chris. _

[gmx-users] g_density appears broken in version 5

2015-03-04 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear membrane simulators: If you use g_density from gromacs versions 5 to 5.0.4, please be aware that the -center option may be wrong: http://redmine.gromacs.org/issues/1698 (g_density is also wrong for NPT simulations in previous versions, but for other reasons) This is in addition to the fac

Re: [gmx-users] g_cluster (gromos method) creates clusters with members having RMSD greater than the cutoff to the cluster "middle"

2015-02-13 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: I have sorted out the issue and filed a redmine: http://redmine.gromacs.org/issues/1688 From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se on behalf of Christopher Neale Sent: 12 February 2015 22:53 To: gromacs.org_gmx-users

Re: [gmx-users] Fwd: Odd behavior in log files for two simulations with only different nstlog for Gromacs 5.0.4

2015-02-13 Thread Christopher Neale
Not sure about the differences, but focusing on what is similar: you're not getting anything close to the desired temperature (in one case half and in one case 3 times after only 10 integration steps). I suspect that there is something else going wrong. I've never combined the sd integrator with

Re: [gmx-users] Semiisotropic pressure coupling

2015-02-13 Thread Christopher Neale
Thanks guys, this is very useful. Chris. From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se on behalf of Justin Lemkul Sent: 13 February 2015 16:53 To: gmx-us...@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Semiisotropic pressure coupling On 2/13/15 4:00

Re: [gmx-users] Semiisotropic pressure coupling

2015-02-12 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Justin: If you have time, can you please provide a link / reference for your comment that potential switching leads to errors in the charmm lipid force field? I tried a google search, but couldn't come up with anything specific. You mentioned noticeable artifacts, so I'm hoping that you ca

Re: [gmx-users] gromacs

2015-02-12 Thread Christopher Neale
(A) modify your .mdp to increase nsteps and then make a new .tpr, then run mdrun -cpi my.cpt files and use the new .tpr file. (B) use tpbconv to modify your original .tpr file and then rerun using mdrun -cpi (C) simply run as before (though you need -cpi option to mdrun since it is a restart) an

Re: [gmx-users] make_ndx selection of backbone residues

2015-02-12 Thread Christopher Neale
Make a group of the "or" selections first, then run an "and" on group 4 and your new group. I don't exactly remember, but maybe you can do it in one step by simply putting the "& 4" at the end instead of the beginning. Chris. From: gromacs.org_gmx-users

Re: [gmx-users] Fwd: how to calculate angles (molecules directions)

2015-02-12 Thread Christopher Neale
aryam On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Christopher Neale < chris.ne...@alum.utoronto.ca> wrote: > Dear Maryam: > > I don't know. If g_dipoles doesn't give you what you want (and I have no > idea if it will), then g_traj -ox will give you positions that you can then >

Re: [gmx-users] Fwd: how to calculate angles (molecules directions)

2015-02-12 Thread Christopher Neale
the angle between the dipole moment vector of a molecule and a special vector (for a very simple assumption X axis for example). I found two options g_angle and g_sgangle but I think non of them can help. Are there any other commands to use? thank you! On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Christo

Re: [gmx-users] Variable force constant in umbrella sampling

2015-02-12 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Daniel: It is perfectly fine to use different force constants for different umbrellas. This is commonly done, for example, when you have a very sharp maximum in your PMF and you need to place a few umbrellas at and near this maximum with very strong force constants in order to get good sam

Re: [gmx-users] Fwd: how to calculate angles (molecules directions)

2015-02-12 Thread Christopher Neale
How does one compute the angle between a vector and a molecule? I think you need to define your goal more completely. From: gromacs.org_gmx-users-boun...@maillist.sys.kth.se on behalf of Maryam Kowsar Sent: 12 February 2015 23:45 To: gromacs.org_gmx-us

[gmx-users] g_cluster (gromos method) creates clusters with members having RMSD greater than the cutoff to the cluster "middle"

2015-02-12 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: I have run g_cluster from gromacs 4.6.5 as follows: g_cluster -s my.tpr -f tmp.xtc -method gromos -nofit -o rmsd-clust_nofit.xpm -g cluster_nofit.log -sz clust-size_nofit.xvg -cl clusters_nofit.pdb -n index.ndx -cutoff 0.275 -wcl 10 -cl finally.xtc The top of cluster_nofit.log look

Re: [gmx-users] tabulated non-bonded potentials with replica exchange (potentials that change with temperature)

2015-01-19 Thread Christopher Neale
] tabulated non-bonded potentials with replica exchange (potentials that change with temperature) On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Christopher Neale < chris.ne...@alum.utoronto.ca> wrote: > Dear Users: > > I presume that I can use tabulated non-bonded potentials with replica > excha

Re: [gmx-users] tabulated non-bonded potentials with replica exchange (potentials that change with temperature)

2015-01-19 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Mark: my mistake. I was using "-multidir 2" when really I should have been using "-multidir 0 1", which is why gromacs complained that I only had one replica. Works as expected now. Thank you again, Chris. ________ From: Christopher Ne

[gmx-users] tabulated non-bonded potentials with replica exchange (potentials that change with temperature)

2015-01-18 Thread Christopher Neale
Dear Users: I presume that I can use tabulated non-bonded potentials with replica exchange in gromacs 4.6.7. However, my question is whether it is possible to supply different tables for each of the different temperatures? My actual use involves the plumed plugin to do hamiltonian replica excha

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