Fwd: [gmx-users] Hen egg white lysozyme.

David van der Spoel spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Wed Aug 16 09:30:21 CEST 2006


Viswanadham Sridhara wrote:
> Hello Dr.Spoel and others,
> There is one more problem with the simulation of hen egg white lysozyme 
> simulation in water I am running. The timestep I could use is just 0.5 
> fs or 0.0005ps. Is there any way around to increase the timestep.
> This is how a part of my mdp file looks like:

use constraints. please read the manual, chapters 1 and 3.

> 
> ; RUN CONTROL PARAMETERS =
> integrator               = md
> ;emstep                   = 0.001
> ;emtol                    = 100
> ; start time and timestep in ps =
> tinit                    = 0.0
> dt                       = 0.0005
> nsteps                   = 2000000
> ; number of steps for center of mass motion removal =
> comm_mode         = Angular
> nstcomm                  = 1
> comm_grps                = Protein_A 
> 
> ; This selects the subset of atoms for the xtc file. You can =
> ; select multiple groups. By default all atoms will be written. =
> xtc-grps                 =
> ; Selection of energy groups =
> energygrps               = Protein_A SOL Na Cl
> 
> ; OPTIONS FOR WEAK COUPLING ALGORITHMS =
> ; Temperature coupling   =
> tcoupl                   = Berendsen
> ; Groups to couple separately =
> tc-grps                  = Protein_A SOL Na Cl
> ; Time constant (ps) and reference temperature (K) =
> tau_t                    = 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
> ref_t                    = 328 328 328 328
> ; Pressure coupling      =
> Pcoupl                   = Berendsen
> Pcoupltype               = isotropic
> ; Time constant (ps), compressibility (1/bar) and reference P (bar) =
> tau_p                    =  1.0  
> compressibility          =  5e-5
> ref_p                    =  1.0
> 
> ; SIMULATED ANNEALING CONTROL =
> annealing                = no no no no
> ; Time at which temperature should be zero (ps) =
> ;zero_temp_time           = 0
> 
> ; GENERATE VELOCITIES FOR STARTUP RUN =
> gen_vel                  = yes
> gen_temp                 = 328
> gen_seed                 = 473529
> 
> ; OPTIONS FOR BONDS     =
> constraints              = none
> ; Type of constraint algorithm =
> constraint_algorithm     = SHAKE
> ; Do not constrain the start configuration =
> unconstrained_start      = no
> ; Relative tolerance of shake =
> shake_tol                = 0.00001
> ; Highest order in the expansion of the constraint coupling matrix =
> lincs_order              = 4
> ; Lincs will write a warning to the stderr if in one step a bond =
> ; rotates over more degrees than =
> lincs_warnangle          = 30
> ; Convert harmonic bonds to morse potentials =
> morse                    = no
> 
> ; NMR refinement stuff  =
> ; Distance restraints type: No, Simple or Ensemble =
> disre                    = No
> ; Force weighting of pairs in one distance restraint: Equal or 
> Conservative =
> disre_weighting          = Equal
> ; Use sqrt of the time averaged times the instantaneous violation =
> disre_mixed              = no
> disre_fc                 = 1000
> disre_tau                = 1.25
> ; Output frequency for pair distances to energy file =
> nstdisreout              = 100
> 
> ; Free energy control stuff =
> free_energy              = no
> init_lambda              = 0
> delta_lambda             = 0
> sc-alpha                 = 0
> sc-sigma                 = 0.3
> 
> Thanks,
> -Vissu.
> 
> On 8/11/06, *David van der Spoel* <spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se 
> <mailto:spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se>> wrote:
> 
>     Viswanadham Sridhara wrote:
>      > Hello everyone,
>      > I could figure out that parameters for NAG are not that
>     important. So, I
>      > used free HEWL.
>      > I started running it, but I realize that the protein started to
>     rotate
>      > around the center of mass with a frequency of around 200ps.
>      > I used "Linear" as an option for comm_mode and I used "Protein" in
>      > comm_grps.
>      > Any reason Why the protein is rotating around its center of mass,
>     is it
>      > normal?
> 
>     yes.
> 
>     comm_mode = angular
> 
>      > Thanks in advance.
>      > -Vissu.
>      >
>      > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>      > From: *David Mobley* < dmobley at gmail.com
>     <mailto:dmobley at gmail.com> <mailto:dmobley at gmail.com
>     <mailto:dmobley at gmail.com>>>
>      > Date: Aug 8, 2006 12:32 AM
>      > Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Hen egg white lysozyme.
>      > To: Discussion list for GROMACS users < gmx-users at gromacs.org
>     <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org>
>      > <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org>>>
>      >
>      > Vissu,
>      >
>      > Depends on what you are trying to do. Many proteins deposited in the
>      > pdb contain "uninteresting" ligands bound to them (i.e. cosolvent
>      > molecules, etc.) On the other hand, sometimes ligands are
>     functionally
>      > important or significantly affect the structure. You have to decide
>      > whether you want to include NAG or not; it might help to first figure
>      > out what it is and what it's used for (perhaps look up its name, and
>      > look at the paper and PDB headers...).
>      >
>      > It is obviously harder to come up with parameters for NAG than
>     not. If
>      > you end up deciding it's not important, you can, for example, just
>      > remove the HETATM entries dealing with it before running pdb2gmx.
>      >
>      > David
>      >
>      >
>      > On 8/7/06, Viswanadham Sridhara < muta.mestri at gmail.com
>     <mailto:muta.mestri at gmail.com>
>      > <mailto:muta.mestri at gmail.com <mailto:muta.mestri at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>      >  > Hi Everyone,
>      >  > I am trying to simulate a protein and I am getting the
>     following error
>      >  > message.
>      >  > "NAG" not found in residue topology database. I checked gmx-users
>      > discussion
>      >  > list to find out if someone ever used 1HEW.pdb . Its a hen
>     egg-white
>      >  > lysozyme. I did not get even a single archive about this.
>      >  > It is under HETATM section of .pdb file. Any help is appreciated.
>      >  > I know that I have to add this residue in aminoacids.dat file
>     and create
>      >  > atoms and bonds in .rtp section. Is there any other way around?
>      >  > Thanks in advance,
>      >  > -Vissu
>      >  >
>      >  > --
>      >  > Viswanadham Sridhara,
>      >  > Graduate Research Assistant,
>      >  > Old Dominion University,
>      >  > Norfolk, VA-23529.
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