[gmx-users] image control

[Justin A. Lemkul]

Quoting Myunggi Yi <myunggi at gmail.com>:

> I don't think this is caused by VMD.
> The real coordinates of the part of the molicule in the .gro file (restart
> file from the end of simulation) will tell you.
> This means gromacs doesn't keep the whole molecule.

I have never known mdrun to write a broken molecule, so I would suspect the
visualization as well.

>
> Would you let me know what simulation setup you need for the cheking?
>
> I used editconf to convert the .pdb file to .gro file.

What .pdb structure?  Your statement above said you already had a .gro file.

> Since the structure (.pdb) was pre-equilibrated one, I did setup box size
> manually (not using editconf).

Why not?  Using editconf should produce the appropriate box dimensions at the
bottom of the output .gro file.

-Justin

> There were more than three float numbers at the bottom of .gro file.
> I left only the first three, and replaced with the known box size.
>
> Is this enough for PBC simulation? (manually typing box size at the bottom
> of .gro file)
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2008 10:13 AM, Alan Dodd <anoddlad at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd suggest this is an issue with VMD rather than gromacs.  You have to be
> > quite careful which .gro you use to provide the original structure, make
> > sure it is actually the starting frame and not anything else - this is
> > something I've seen cause this sort of problem before.
> > Normally, of course, PBC settings in Gromacs keep molecules whole in the
> > output file quite reliably, but not knowing how you've set your simulation
> > up, I couldn't comment on that.  Using ngmx is a good way to check that
> > Gromacs itself is doing what you think it is.
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Myunggi Yi <myunggi at gmail.com>
> > To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2:51:20 PM
> > Subject: [gmx-users] image control
> >
> > Dear users,
> >
> > I'm running NPT simulation POPC with a short peptide.
> > I see the long bonds across the unit cell in VMD.
> > Why am I getting broken lipid molecules in the trajectory (original .xtc
> > file w/o any post-modification)?
> >
> > Some lipids move whole molecules, but some are broken.
> > How can I control the unit of image?
> > I couldn't find any related word in the manual.
> >
> > I assume image will be done by "residue".
> > Then I shouldn't get this strange result.
> >
> > I got the popc.itp from Dr. Tieleman's web site.
> > Any idea?
> >
> >
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Justin A. Lemkul
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
jalemkul at vt.edu | (540) 231-9080
http://www.bevanlab.biochem.vt.edu/Pages/Personal/justin/

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