[gmx-users] Position Restrain Problem

Anthony Cruz acb15885 at uprm.edu
Tue Dec 20 16:17:07 CET 2005


grompp not gives any warning when reading in the topology and  
coordinates. This is my topology file:

;
;       File 'pzav_Top.top' was generated
;       By user: acruz (1001)
;       On host: tccg8
;       At date: Fri Dec 16 09:48:52 2005
;
;       This is your topology file
;       HLA CLASS II HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN, DR; 3 ALPHA CHAIN; HLA CLASS 
II HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN, DRB1-1; 10 BETA CHAIN; GAG POLYPROTEIN; ENTERO
TOXIN TYPE C-3
;
; Include forcefield parameters
#include "ffG43a1.itp"

; Include chain topologies
#include "pzav_Top_A.itp"
#include "pzav_Top_C.itp"

; Include water topology
#include "spc.itp"

#ifdef POSRES_WATER
; Position restraint for each water oxygen
[ position_restraints ]
;  i funct       fcx        fcy        fcz
   1    1       1000       1000       1000
#endif

; Include generic topology for ions
#include "ions.itp"

[ system ]
; Name
HLA CLASS II HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN, DR; 3 ALPHA CHAIN; HLA CLASS II 
HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN, DRB1-1; 10 BETA CHAIN; GAG POLYPROTEIN; 
ENTEROTOXIN TY
PE C-3 in water

[ molecules ]
; Compound        #mols
Protein_A            1
Protein_C            1
SOL            95131
NA+                 18


This is my MDP file for the position restrain:

title               =  SHLA CLASS II HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN
warnings            =  10
cpp                 =  /usr/bin/cpp
define              =  -DPOSRES
constraints         =  all-bonds
integrator          =  md
dt                  =  0.002    ; ps !
nsteps              =  300000 ; total 600 ps.
nstcomm             =  1
; Output Control
nstxout             =  500
nstvout             =  500
nstfout             =  0
nstlog              =  500
nstenergy           =  500
nstlist             =  5
ns_type             =  grid
rlist               =  0.9
coulombtype             =  PME
rcoulomb            =  0.9
rvdw                =  1.4
fourierspacing          =  0.12
fourier_nx              =  0
fourier_ny              =  0
fourier_nz              =  0
pme_order               =  6
ewald_rtol              =  1e-5
optimize_fft            =  yes
pbc                     =  xyz
; Berendsen temperature coupling is on in three groups
Tcoupl              =  berendsen
tau_t               =  0.1      0.1     0.1
tc_grps             =  Protein  SOL     NA+
ref_t               =  298      298     298
; Pressure coupling is on
Pcoupl              =  berendsen
pcoupltype          =  isotropic
tau_p               =  0.5
compressibility     =  4.5e-5
ref_p               =  1.0
; Generate velocites is on at 298 K.
gen_vel             =  yes
gen_temp            =  298.0
gen_seed            =  173529

The only thing is that I have only one protein group and in the topology I 
have 2 itp one for the protein (2 units) and another for the peptide. I need 
to split the Protein group in two?

Anthony


On Monday 19 December 2005 2:01 pm, Andrea C. Vaiana wrote:
> I had a similar problem and it turned out that in my coordinate file
> atoms were ordered differently than in the topology file...
> check if grompp gives a warning when reading in the topology and
> coordinates.
> Andrea
>
> On Dec 19, 2005, at 1:08 PM, Anthony Cruz wrote:
> > Hi users:
> > I am trying to run a simulation of the interaction between a
> > protein that have
> > two units and a small peptide. First I have the pdb file of the
> > protein (2
> > subunits) and the peptide. I use the -merge option of pdb2gmx to
> > merge the
> > two protein subunits in one topology and the peptide in other
> > topology but
> > all in the same .gro. I run the energy minimization without problem
> > but it
> > end too rapidly:
> >
> >  Energies (kJ/mol)
> >         G96Bond       G96Angle    Proper Dih.  Improper
> > Dih.          LJ-14
> >     5.04580e+02    1.64344e+03    1.89068e+03    2.77582e+02
> > 2.00071e+03
> >      Coulomb-14        LJ (SR)        LJ (LR)   Coulomb (SR)
> > Coulomb (LR)
> >     4.12043e+04    7.06859e+05   -1.90071e+04   -4.29975e+06
> > -4.75686e+05
> >       Potential    Kinetic En.   Total Energy    Temperature
> > Pressure (bar)
> >    -4.04006e+06    0.00000e+00    0.00000e+00    0.00000e+00
> > 0.00000e+00
> >
> >            Step           Time         Lambda
> >              27       27.00000        0.00000
> >
> >            Step           Time         Lambda
> >              28       28.00000        0.00000
> >
> >            Step           Time         Lambda
> >              29       29.00000        0.00000
> >
> >
> > Stepsize too small, or no change in energy.
> > Converged to machine precision,
> > but not to the requested precision Fmax < 100
> >
> > Double precision normally gives you higher accuracy.
> > You might need to increase your constraint accuracy, or turn
> > off constraints alltogether (set constraints = none in mdp file)
> >
> > Steepest Descents converged to machine precision in 30 steps,
> > but did not reach the requested Fmax < 100.
> > Potential Energy  = -4.0400605e+06
> > Maximum force     =  2.5371721e+03 on atom 195774
> > Norm of force     =  5.4543950e+05
> >
> > When I try to run the position restrain dynamics the process end
> > abruptly.
> > With this output from the log file :
> >
> > Initializing LINear Constraint Solver
> >   number of constraints is 3992
> >   average number of constraints coupled to one constraint is 2.9
> >
> >    Rel. Constraint Deviation:  Max    between atoms     RMS
> >        Before LINCS         0.040178   2221   2222   0.006943
> >         After LINCS         0.000491   1144   1146   0.000052
> >
> > Going to use C-settle (4728 waters)
> > wo = 0.888096, wh =0.0559521, wohh = 18.0154, rc = 0.081665, ra =
> > 0.00645837
> > rb = 0.051255, rc2 = 0.16333, rone = 1, dHH = 0.16333, dOH = 0.1
> >
> > Constraining the coordinates at t0-dt (step -1)
> >    Rel. Constraint Deviation:  Max    between atoms     RMS
> >        Before LINCS         0.093162   2933   2934   0.016557
> >         After LINCS         0.000218   1271   1273   0.000034
> >
> > Started mdrun on node 0 Mon Dec 19 09:31:45 2005
> > Initial temperature: 298.48 K
> >            Step           Time         Lambda
> >               0        0.00000        0.00000
> >
> > Grid: 20 x 20 x 20 cells
> >    Rel. Constraint Deviation:  Max    between atoms     RMS
> >        Before LINCS         0.066290   2460   2461   0.005114
> >         After LINCS         0.000133   1144   1146   0.000015
> >
> >    Energies (kJ/mol)
> >        G96Angle    Proper Dih.  Improper Dih.          LJ-14
> > Coulomb-14
> >     2.01626e+03    1.90234e+03    3.07489e+02    2.05943e+03
> > 4.13328e+04
> >         LJ (SR)        LJ (LR)   Coulomb (SR)   Coulomb (LR)
> > Position Rest.
> >     7.08229e+05   -1.90024e+04   -4.30085e+06   -5.03389e+05
> > 1.49338e+06
> >       Potential    Kinetic En.   Total Energy    Temperature
> > Pressure (bar)
> >    -2.57402e+06    7.21568e+05   -1.85245e+06    2.99867e+02
> > -1.16469e+03
> >
> >
> > t = 0.020 ps: Water molecule starting at atom 3923 can not be settled.
> > Check for bad contacts and/or reduce the timestep.Wrote pdb files with
> > previous and current coordinates
> >
> > t = 0.036 ps: Water molecule starting at atom 7658 can not be settled.
> > Check for bad contacts and/or reduce the timestep.Wrote pdb files with
> > previous and current coordinates
> >
> > t = 0.038 ps: Water molecule starting at atom 7703 can not be settled.
> > Check for bad contacts and/or reduce the timestep.Wrote pdb files with
> > previous and current coordinates
> >
> > t = 0.040 ps: Water molecule starting at atom 8420 can not be settled.
> > Check for bad contacts and/or reduce the timestep.Wrote pdb files with
> > previous and current coordinates
> >
> > t = 0.042 ps: Water molecule starting at atom 7724 can not be settled.
> > Check for bad contacts and/or reduce the timestep.Wrote pdb files with
> > previous and current coordinates
> >
> >
> > And the following output from the pbs errors file:
> >
> > starting mdrun 'HLA CLASS II HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN, DR'
> > 300000 steps,    600.0 ps.
> >
> > step 0
> > Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
> > step 10, will finish at Wed May 31 14:12:32 2006
> > Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
> >
> > Back Off! I just backed up step17.pdb to ./#step17.pdb.1#
> > Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
> >
> > Back Off! I just backed up step18.pdb to ./#step18.pdb.1#
> > Sorry couldn't backup step18.pdb to ./#step18.pdb.1#
> >
> > Back Off! I just backed up step19.pdb to ./#step19.pdb.1#
> > Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
> > Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
> >
> > Back Off! I just backed up step19.pdb to ./#step19.pdb.2#
> > Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
> > step 20, will finish at Sat Apr  7 06:34:59 2007
> >
> > Back Off! I just backed up step20.pdb to ./#step20.pdb.1#
> > Sorry couldn't backup step20.pdb to ./#step20.pdb.1#
> >
> > Back Off! I just backed up step21.pdb to ./#step21.pdb.1#
> > Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
> > Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
> > MPI: On host caffenero.hpcf.upr.edu,
> > Program /usr/local/gromacs/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/mdrun_mpi,
> > Rank 15,
> > Process 31770 received signal SIGSEGV(11)
> >
> >
> > MPI: --------stack traceback-------
> > sh: line 1: idb: command not found
> >
> > MPI: -----stack traceback ends-----
> > MPI: On host caffenero.hpcf.upr.edu,
> > Program /usr/local/gromacs/ia64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/mdrun_mpi,
> > Rank 15,
> > Process 31770: Dumping core on signal SIGSEG
> > V(11) into directory /home/acruz/asv.31738
> > MPI: MPI_COMM_WORLD rank 15 has terminated without calling
> > MPI_Finalize()
> > MPI: aborting job
> > MPI: Received signal 11
> >
> > What could be the problem???
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