[gmx-users] umbrella versus constraint in the pulling code

2013-11-30 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Could anyone please explain the difference between how umbrella and constaint options in the pulling code work. Based on the manual, I expect that the only difference is that umbrella used harmonic potential to bind pulled group to the reference group (point), while constraint uses shake algorithm

Re: [gmx-users] Charge correction PME

2013-11-30 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
I might be wrong here, but my expectation is that nowadays you should not do anything explicitly in this regard. The compensating charge is automatically applied. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Benrezkallah Djamila benrezkal...@gmail.com wrote: Dear gmx_users, My

Re: [gmx-users] Umbrella Sampling tutorial

2013-12-01 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
The output you got indicates that the pulled group came to the location where it is expected by gromacs to be. The input looks correct, but gromacs' pull code is with surprise inside. I would try to pull in opposite direction, i.e. pull_vec1 = -0 0 1. Turning off barostat during pulling also

Re: [gmx-users] using nopbc is not equal to using pbc with big box dimensions

2013-12-02 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
The fact that images are separated by a distance exceeding the cutoff, does not mean that they do not interact electrostatically. I hope the results are not much different... Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Golshan Hejazi golshan.hej...@yahoo.comwrote: Hello, I

Re: [gmx-users] Using several cores for MD production

2013-12-03 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
The invocation line depends on the MPI tool installed on the cluster. E.g. in case of openmpi, you write openmpi -np 64 mdrun -dd 4 4 4 Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:58 PM, MUSYOKA THOMMAS mutemibiochemis...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Justin, Well it seems i am the first one to

Re: [gmx-users] deformation in cnt

2013-12-10 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
If the system does not explode, everything is correct. Though your solution is perhaps in the wrong place in relation to the tube. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Atila Petrosian atila.petros...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Justin Based on your suggestion, I added C-C bond

Re: [gmx-users] Simulations in extreme conditions

2014-02-15 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
I like extreme conditions... Seriously. OPLS water, as well as other popular MM waters, are parametrized for liquid state. I think you need to decrease model's dipole moment and you have to work with an integration time-step to ensure adequate energy conservation at ca. 600K. I believe there

Re: [gmx-users] Simulations in extreme conditions

2014-02-15 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:47 PM, CipPruteanu c.prute...@ed.ac.uk wrote: Dr. Vitaly Chaban wrote I like extreme conditions... Seriously. OPLS water, as well as other popular MM waters, are parametrized for liquid state. I think you need to decrease model's dipole moment and you have to work

Re: [gmx-users] Umbrella Sampling between Nanotubes

2014-02-17 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Not sure that I got your question correctly... The atom indices, which you supply to umbrella code, can be defined as you like, without being bound to the molecules they belong to in the topology files. Therefore, if you need to restraint certain number of atoms in a system, just enumerate them

Re: [gmx-users] Bonds/constraits betweeen two moleculetypes?

2014-02-17 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
I am under impression that pulling code performs this trick. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Steven Neumann s.neuman...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Gmx Users, Do you know whether it is possible to apply bonds/distance restraints or constraints between two atom belonging to

Re: [gmx-users] Periodic Boundary removal in Coarse Grains Simulations

2014-02-22 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
it has nothing to do with CG description of PES. try the option of trjconv, which is to make molecules whole again Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Nikhil Agrawal nikhil.08...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have simulated a membrane proteins system using coarse grain model.

Re: [gmx-users] Temperature coupling

2014-02-22 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
I do not know what the manual says, but if you are talking about viscosity computation through cos-like acceleration, then g_energy is doing all the work for you. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Marcelo Vanean vanea...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to calculate the

Re: [gmx-users] Interaction energy of system as a function of the interface area

2014-02-23 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
step-by-step Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:51 AM, maryam haji maryam6...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all My system consists of protein and CNT. I know I can calculate Interaction energy and interface area using g_energy and g_sas tools, respectively. I want to obtain

Re: [gmx-users] Long trajectory split

2014-02-23 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
are you sure that your binary is parallel? how many frames do those trajectory files contain? Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Marcelo Depólo marcelodep...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I should explain it better. I am using *mpirun -np 24 mdrun -s prt.tpr -e prt.edr -o

Re: [gmx-users] Temperature coupling

2014-02-23 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
I believe you are now posing the questions, where you are expected to open the source code yourself and read... Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Marcelo Vanean vanea...@gmail.com wrote: Still about the question of temperature coupling with method of the periodic

Re: [gmx-users] REMD slow's down drastically

2014-02-24 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
sorry, and what performance did you expect from REMD? Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Singam Karthick sikar...@yahoo.in wrote: Dear members, I am trying to run REMD simulation for poly Alanine (12 residue) system. I used remd generator to get the range of temperature

Re: [gmx-users] Dubious results with NPT

2014-02-25 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
your average pressure is the pressure you should report in the publication. if you got 5 bars instead of 1 bar, you should write I simulated the system at 5 bars Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 6:01 AM, sujithkakkat . sujithk...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:37 AM,

Re: [gmx-users] Dubious results with NPT

2014-02-25 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 6:48 AM, Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote: in that case the average is reasonable, but you should state in the manuscript that all the reported results correspond to 5.15 bar. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:42

Re: [gmx-users] User-defined Potentials in Gromacs

2014-02-26 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
I have looked up tabulated potential in the manual and also the suggested document, neither of them actually helps the situation. Why do they not? Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List

Re: [gmx-users] please guide me through the confusing gromacs results!!!

2014-02-26 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
if the system sends a termination request to MDRUN, it stops the main cycle and writes down the summary of the run. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:31 AM, delara aghaie d_agh...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear Gromacs users, we want to simulateHSA protein using8 processors. Usually

Re: [gmx-users] how to increase vacuum thickness in a periodic system

2014-02-26 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
editconf -box X Y Z Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:58 PM, decaiyu d...@dow.com wrote: Dear All, I ran a NVT simulation with a layer of oil+vaccuum. Because of periodic boundary condition, there are some molecules on the top of vaccuum layer. Now I want to increase the

Re: [gmx-users] Long trajectory split

2014-02-27 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
of files that you request. 2014-02-23 22:21 GMT+01:00 Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com: You do not provide all the details. As was pointed at the very beginning, most likely you have incorrect parallelism in this case. Can you post all the files you obtain for people to inspect? Dr. Vitaly

Re: [gmx-users] Out of Disk Space

2014-03-04 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
I have executed for two times, each time i get different error. And you got *different* errors... What's the difference? Did you get the error at exactly the same integration time-step? Did you try to resproduce the error on another disk partition? Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban -- Gromacs Users

Re: [gmx-users] Free energy calculation of a charged system

2014-03-14 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Hi Valentina - Honestly, I did not get the considerations with charges. TI probably scales interaction energies between selected groups, not charges. Science-wise, I would first decouple organic particle, then decouple chloride anions, and place a right sign between these two free energies. If

Re: [gmx-users] Function type Fourier Dih. not implemented in ip_pert

2014-03-31 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Since I do not couple intramolecular interactions, why those dihedrals play any role? Thank you. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote: Program mdrun_mpi, VERSION 4.6.2 Source code file: /gromacs-2014.01.14-12-21-22-nbreLi.itsi

[gmx-users] Function type Fourier Dih. not implemented in ip_pert

2014-03-31 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Program mdrun_mpi, VERSION 4.6.2 Source code file: /gromacs-2014.01.14-12-21-22-nbreLi.itsi/gromacs-4.6.2/src/gmxlib/topsort.c, line: 136 Fatal error: Function type Fourier Dih. not implemented in ip_pert What is this while running free energy code? How to get rid og it? free-energy = yes

Re: [gmx-users] drug-drug interaction energy

2014-04-02 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
The positive values must be expected only if the drugs are ionized... Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Manuel Azenha maze...@fc.up.pt wrote: Dear all, When I simulate a solution of a drug in water/methanol to study the self-aggregation, and try to determine the

Re: [gmx-users] MD simulations on a remote workstation

2014-04-02 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
then that is rubbish. But, if that is gonna translate into 100% improvement (halve the production run time), then it is worth upgrading. That remains to be seen. Amjad On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the answer pretty much depends on how large

Re: [gmx-users] extended bonds

2014-04-02 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
So, between or intra? extended intramolecular bonds between cosolvent molecules Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 8:31 PM, pratibha kapoorpratib...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I have done simulations of my protein in water-cosolvent system (random initial addition) at 450K. At the end

[gmx-users] make_ndx, boolean operations

2014-04-14 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Hi Everyone - What is my command line if I need to exclude sites belonging to group #2 from group #1? Thank you. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! * Can't post? Read

Re: [gmx-users] make_ndx, boolean operations

2014-04-14 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
seems I achieved that with 1 ! 2 Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone - What is my command line if I need to exclude sites belonging to group #2 from group #1? Thank you. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban -- Gromacs Users

Re: [gmx-users] Potential for Frozen atoms

2014-04-17 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Hi Sukriti Gupta - Your setup is great. The only scientific problem is that all those divalent cations in the force fields are being parametrized, to a larger or a smaller extent, with condensed systems in mind. That is, if you use them in the liquid phase and for temperature-driven dynamics, the

Re: [gmx-users] Is viscosity increasing in the system due to the protein unfolding?

2014-04-29 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
First, it is unlikely that 'g_energy -f x.edr -o visc.xvg' provides you a viscosity. Second, viscosity from equilibrium MD should converge vs. time before it can be analyzed. I guess what you observe is viscosity convergence, not viscosity evolution in response to unfolding. Dr. Vitaly V.

Re: [gmx-users] MD simulation at pH 2

2014-05-09 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Nice to know that acidic pH simulations are that easy. Why do you conclude that you achieved pH 2? Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Turgay Cakmak turgaycakma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have the 8-residue peptide and I want to do Molecular Dynamics simulations at pH

Re: [gmx-users] CNT ROTATION

2014-05-26 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
This sounds too crazy for me. Do you have an image of your MD box? What does 3nm mean for your box? Half of any side? Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 8:56 PM, ANDRES ADOLFO ORTEGA GUERRERO andres.ort...@correounivalle.edu.co wrote: Hi dear Gromacs User, I have done a pulling

Re: [gmx-users] CNT ROTATION

2014-05-28 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
provided that pulling forces are normally selected (much) larger than the genuine forces in the simulated system, unfavorable interactions are unlikely to cause the observed effect. however, rotation is probably somehow geared by pulling energy. i looked though the movie - it is like a nice

Re: [gmx-users] CNT ROTATION

2014-05-30 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
it is better to avoid rotation at this initial stage. if you experience certain features in your finals PMFs which you cannot explain, you will always be unsure where they arrive from. this hurts your soul. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:41 PM, ANDRES ADOLFO ORTEGA GUERRERO

Re: [gmx-users] the water box become much larger in high temporature replicas after replica exchange simulation

2014-06-08 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
On Jun 5, 2014 8:34 AM, #ZHANG HAIPING# hzhang...@e.ntu.edu.sg wrote: Dear gromacs user: I have used follow .mdp to run the replica exchange simulation, after the simulation, I find the water box become much larger in high temporature replicas, can anyone tell me how to solve this? By the

Re: [gmx-users] Reactive force field

2014-06-09 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
no. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Nilesh Dhumal ndhu...@andrew.cmu.edu wrote: Hello, Could it possible to run the simulation with reactive force field using Gromacs? Nilesh -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at

Re: [gmx-users] how many groups shall I use to control the temperature?

2014-06-12 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
There is no rule regarding how many thermostats per system one needs. Often people choose separate thermostats for parts of system, which exhibit different mobility. I do not see any connection to functional forms of the interactions and, therefore, to force fields. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On

Re: [gmx-users] Regarding lipid topology

2014-06-16 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Of course, no. You need to adjust your topology (force field?) to distinguish between cis- and trans- states. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Venkat Reddy venkat...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I want to simulate a membrane protein system. My membrane is composed of

Re: [gmx-users] More suitable force field and water model

2014-06-20 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
There is no best combination. The parameters for water for your solute must be derived using physically equivalent procedures. That's all. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Mohsen Ramezanpour ramezanpour.moh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Gromacs Users, I have read some

Re: [gmx-users] Charges non-bonded interaction values usage in different force fields

2014-06-24 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Can you perhaps kindly explain us how charges and non-bonded interaction values were experimentally determined? Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Rj ra...@kaist.ac.kr wrote: Dear all, Experimentally determined charges and non-bonded interaction values for ligand atoms

Re: [gmx-users] Carbon monoxide topology

2014-06-26 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
you for your concern. Msg: 3 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:26:02 +0200 From: Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com To: gmx-us...@gromacs.org Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Charges non-bonded interaction values usage in different force fields Message-ID: capxdd+y4fndzeel-d+wect_tmfjkq0co28dmhbsgcxgdrvc

Re: [gmx-users] EDLC simulation using Gromacs

2014-06-29 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
It is very easy. You apply an electric field and observe how DL is forming. Have fun. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Andy Chao ac...@energiaq.com wrote: Dear Users, Would you please suggest a few examples of using GROMACS to simulate an EDLC device? Thanks a lot!

Re: [gmx-users] CNT with BN co doping

2014-06-30 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Simulation of doped nanostructures is much more complicated than described below. You must account for the effect of your new fragments on electron density of the entire nanostructure. There is enough evidence that an additive approach fails here. Good luck. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Mon, Jun

Re: [gmx-users] How to calculate Box Vectors in the last line of the .gro file?

2014-06-30 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
You need to set the box vectors with respect to system density or anticipated system density. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Todor Antonijevic t_ant...@uncg.edu wrote: Hi, I cannot obtain the last line (box vectors *1.82060 1.82060 1.82060*) of the .gro file. *Can

Re: [gmx-users] Questions regarding converting .GRO files to .TOP files

2014-06-30 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
I believe x2top works nice only when you have a single molecule in a structure file. Perhaps, the algorithm wants to connect molecules, which are not actually connected, and goes crazy, but it is just a guess. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Andy Chao ac...@energiaq.com

Re: [gmx-users] CNT with BN co doping

2014-06-30 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
the statement, You must account for the effect of your new fragments on electron density of the entire nanostructure. a little bit further. thanks for your time On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote: Simulation of doped nanostructures is much more

Re: [gmx-users] Regarding lipid topology

2014-07-03 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
reply. So, the changes like dihedral angle for C8-C9=C10-C11 should be 180 instead of 0 in trans state. Are there any other adjustments I should make to build the trans lipid isomer topology from cis? Thank you for your valuable time and concern. On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Dr. Vitaly

Re: [gmx-users] Graphene topology file

2014-07-03 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Graphene topology is like for tube, so C C C ... C ... C C C C C to the N2T file and you are done. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Justin Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: On 7/2/14, 9:56 AM, #SUKRITI GUPTA# wrote: Dear all, I want to simulate

Re: [gmx-users] gromacs Bug?

2014-07-20 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
unless your pc is kidding you, there is a problem with index group assignment. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 3:56 AM, ANDRES ADOLFO ORTEGA GUERRERO andres.ort...@correounivalle.edu.co wrote: Hi dear Gromacs users, i would like to report something maybe could be a bug or a

Re: [gmx-users] about cos-accelation

2014-07-23 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
1) g_energy -vis is always Einstein g_energy and then select 1/visc term - NE method. 2) I do not think it makes physical sense to distinguish between viscosities in a mixture because of the definition of viscosity. Specifying cos-acc will supply extra energy to all particles. 3) Rigorously,

Re: [gmx-users] Angle group

2014-07-23 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Use g_angle and your index file must contain triples of the involved atoms. if I remember correctly, this route provides a gaussian-type probability distribution, i.e. not evolution vs. time. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Cyrus Djahedi cyrus...@kth.se wrote: Hi! Im

Re: [gmx-users] Lennard jones parameters for ions

2014-07-28 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Ionic and atomic radii are the same..? Wow! You should reparametrize Fe(+++) obviously. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:39 PM, #SUKRITI GUPTA# sukriti...@e.ntu.edu.sg wrote: Dear Gromacs users, I wanted to simulate metal ions in gromacs. For Fe+2, I

Re: [gmx-users] maximum energy in ipnic liquid

2014-07-28 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
There is no command, but your can obviously compute formation energy of your structure. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Andy Chao ac...@energiaq.com wrote: Dear gromacs users: is there any gromacs command that can allow us to compute the

Re: [gmx-users] Details about using g_wham

2014-07-29 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Unless you symmetrize the PMF before output, it should be along an entire box side. You do not specify how you pulled your molecule; therefore, it is impossible to suggest further. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Yoo Chan Myung

Re: [gmx-users] changing the viscosity of water in a simulation

2014-09-02 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:59 AM, soumadwip ghosh soumadwipgh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am a newbie to MD simulation. We are working in the direction of finding the molecular origin of internal friction of protein folding. For this we have to run folding simulations at different

Re: [gmx-users] the growth of the molecule

2014-09-18 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Why not? Your interaction potential is responsible for everything. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Александр Селютин saga1...@gmail.com wrote: Can the gromacs simulate the growth of the molecule? For example, does it allow to add units to the

Re: [gmx-users] minimization for final configuration

2014-09-30 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Indeed, it is unlikely that averaged coordinates of certain structure versus time correspond to something physically meaningful. How do you average them, by the way? And what for, please? Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Justin Lemkul

Re: [gmx-users] Why should I repeat my simulation?

2014-10-06 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
And one trivial coin from me... Not only the random seed for the initial velocity distribution must be altered, but it is also very good to start from a significantly different set of coordinates. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 11:15 PM, fatemeh ramezani

Re: [gmx-users] Use NVT to mimic NVE

2014-10-11 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
what is it needed for? Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Johnny Lu johnny.lu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Is it a good idea to mimic NVE by a NVT simulation with a large temperature coupling time constant, to reduce the effect of the thermostat ?

Re: [gmx-users] Use NVT to mimic NVE

2014-10-11 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
, Antonio Baptista bapti...@itqb.unl.pt wrote: Then, run true NVE, for the reasons we already pointed. On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Johnny Lu wrote: For dynamics with correct rate and correct fluctuation. On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote: what is it needed

Re: [gmx-users] Use NVT to mimic NVE

2014-10-11 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
seems insignificant over 100 ns simulation by linear regression fitting on a 300 ps run. But double precision gromacs can't use gpu and is much slower than single precision gromacs. On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote: I also cannot get why not to just

Re: [gmx-users] Lithium Ions in Gromos53A6

2014-10-11 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
What about taking another alkali ion (are thery any in CROMOS53?) and adjusting sigmaepsilon to reflect smaller size of Li(+)? Of course, lithium is a pretty polarizable guy with certain covalent bonding ambitions, but this does not prevent people to simulate it as a hard [+1e] sphere... Dr.

Re: [gmx-users] Use NVT to mimic NVE

2014-10-12 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
. Two different simulations can converge, if the string of random numbers used in langevin thermostats is the same. I'm not sure about V-rescaling. I agree that all thermostats and barostats likely cause some artifacts in dynamics. On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha

Re: [gmx-users] Acetone parameters and transferability question

2014-10-12 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
830 versus 791 kg/m^3 is not that terrible discrepancy in the case of united-atom models and other details from below... Acetone falls within the group of those small molecules, which are easy to (re)parameterize. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 11:38

Re: [gmx-users] Use NVT to mimic NVE

2014-10-12 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
The artifacts are caused by energy leakage. Thermostatting does not solve them. The problem exists, but you do not see it clearly with thermostat. For instance, I have an example where a liquid droplet in vacuum is not stable due to bad energy conservation. Some particles just sporadically fly

Re: [gmx-users] Use NVT to mimic NVE

2014-10-12 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
I believe the major problem with energy losses is that your system never achieves equilibrium. Thus, all the simulated properties are not what they need to be... Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [gmx-users] Use NVT to mimic NVE

2014-10-12 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
The point was that if the energy leaves the system, then the system is never in equilibrium. Not vice versa, please. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Johnny Lu johnny.lu...@gmail.com wrote: Why non-equilibrium can cause lost of total energy in

Re: [gmx-users] Performance degradation for Verlet cutoff-scheme compared to group

2014-10-13 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
What about trying a larger system, ~10,000 interaction centers? The performance which you report is much below natural expectations for GROMACS. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Олег Титов tito...@qsar.chem.msu.ru wrote: Thanks for you reply.

Re: [gmx-users] Regarding umbrella samplling

2014-10-13 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Yes, it means what you say. I would decrease the number of bins. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Johnny Lu johnny.lu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Does that mean the umbrella don't overlap enough at those z ? Can you make an overlay plot of the

Re: [gmx-users] (no subject)

2014-10-15 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
This usually means that your system is not well equilibrated. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Padmani Sandhu padmanisandh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am doing Molecular-Dynamic simulation of Protein-Ligand complex embedded in POPC lipid

Re: [gmx-users] How to add iron parameter?

2014-10-15 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
The easiest way is to simulate QM/MM around Fe (+howmuch?). Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Guangyu Zhu g...@hwi.buffalo.edu wrote: Hi, I’m a beginner of gromacs. I want to do simulation for a protein with protein with ferrous or ferric. But

Re: [gmx-users] pressure dependence on volume.

2014-10-18 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
To achieve what you want you need to MANUALLY set the average DENSITY which you obtained from NPT. That is, you MANUALLY adjust box side length in the GRO file. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Johnny Lu johnny.lu...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying

Re: [gmx-users] pressure dependence on volume.

2014-10-19 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
I believe you are too concentrated on writing questions, so that it does not leave you time to think about responses. Try to learn the manual a bit. Best luck. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Johnny Lu johnny.lu...@gmail.com wrote: I searched

Re: [gmx-users] SWM4-NDP force field

2014-10-19 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
]. For a system consisting of graphene, water and (Na+ OH-, or H3O+ Cl-) ions, if there is nonbonding-parameters specified, will having a different fudge value (0.5 instead of 1.0) make a difference? Thank you in advance. Regards, Kester - 원본 메일 - *보낸사람* : Dr. Vitaly

Re: [gmx-users] OPLSAA

2014-10-19 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Yes, it is a typo and not only in this paper. There is NO plausible explanation why to introduce scaling factors for the atoms separated by more than 3 bonds. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Justin Lemkul jalem...@vt.edu wrote: On 10/19/14

Re: [gmx-users] Simulating Multiple Solute Particles

2014-10-26 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Hi - genbox must work. You add the first molecule, then the second molecule and so on. So, I suggest to run genbox for a few times and have enough empty space available in the box. Otherwise, there is a wonderful tool called PACKMOL. The acid molecule looks pretty sexy. I guess it will not be

[gmx-users] histo-clust.xvg from g_clustsize

2014-10-26 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Does anyone happen to remember what the frequencies in histo-clust.xvg from g_clustsize mean? Are they directly comparable between different systems? Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at

Re: [gmx-users] Understanding the results of NVT simulation

2014-10-29 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Agnivo Gosai agnivogromac...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Users I did a NVT simulation with the following key parameters :- ; Temperature coupling tcoupl = V-rescale ; modified Berendsen thermostat tc-grps = DNA_Protein Water_and_ions

Re: [gmx-users] Packmol starting .pdb and proper equilibration

2014-10-29 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
I do not believe it is because of packmol or because of equilibration. What about trying a different number of cores per job? Sometimes, certain number of cores do not want to work correctly for certain systems. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:07 PM,

Re: [gmx-users] Pressure coupling and liquid crystals

2014-10-29 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
The only reason to use semi-isotropic or anisotropic pressure coupling is your own desire to control pressure components, XX ... ZZ, differently. In the case of liquid crystals, I would use semi-isotropic coupling, but rather perceiving this as a matter of my own taste. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban

Re: [gmx-users] Long bond streches during simulations

2014-10-29 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
It is disgusting that the bond dares to stretch... Perhaps, there is no harmonic bond record for this bond in the topology? Would you like to provide numbers characterizing this long stretch, perhaps? Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Seera

Re: [gmx-users] Silica monolayer with Martini force field

2014-10-29 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Honestly, I did not get why fixed alkane molecules should interact with water in a different manner than normal ones... Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:22 PM, RAMON REIGADA SANZ reig...@ub.edu wrote: Hi Gromacs users, I want to simulate a

Re: [gmx-users] Regarding the Pi-Pi and pi-cation interaction

2014-10-31 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 5:55 AM, rama david ramadavidgr...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Friends, I search the archive to find the answer of my question but I did not get satisfied answer so I am putting the question in forum. One of them is as

Re: [gmx-users] NPT Simulation average pressure lower than Reference set pressure

2014-10-31 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
Sampling over 100 ps is incredibly meaningful... Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Agnivo Gosai agnivogromac...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Users I have a DNA-Protein system and I use AMBER99SB-Parmbsc0 ff in GROMACS 4.5.7 single precision. My

Re: [gmx-users] Packmol starting .pdb and proper equilibration

2014-10-31 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Ioanna Styliari pax...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote: Thank you both for your prompt replies. Dr Vitaly Chaban: Is there any way of evaluating how many nodes are needed or is it just by a trial-error approach? If your number of cores gives an error, try another

Re: [gmx-users] size of the box for peptide

2014-11-04 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
the layer of water must be thicker than the interaction cut-off. Dr. Vitaly V. Chaban Виталий Витальевич ЧАБАН On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:44 PM, leila salimi leilasal...@gmail.com wrote: Dear gromacs users, I want to simulate the conformation of peptide in solution (20 monomers of

Re: [gmx-users] segfault in g_clustsize

2015-01-20 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
, Mark Abraham mark.j.abra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote: What can segmentation fault in g_clustsize indicate? Usage error, coding error, or insufficient resources. Hard to say which, on the information you've given

[gmx-users] segfault in g_clustsize

2015-01-20 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
What can segmentation fault in g_clustsize indicate? The error occurs irrespective of which atom type for clustering we select. -- Gromacs Users mailing list * Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/Support/Mailing_Lists/GMX-Users_List before posting! * Can't post? Read

Re: [gmx-users] segfault in g_clustsize

2015-01-20 Thread Dr. Vitaly Chaban
UPD: all other utilities process this trajectory without problems generating adequate numerical results. On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Dr. Vitaly Chaban vvcha...@gmail.com wrote: What can segmentation fault in g_clustsize indicate? The error occurs irrespective of which atom type