[gmx-users] solvation

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Thu Aug 13 20:41:02 CEST 2009



Jamie Seyed wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> Does it mean each time I can add one until I get the number that I 
> want...?? Many Thanks/Jamie
> 

No need to do it manually.  That's what -nmol is for.

-Justin

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu 
> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     Jamie Seyed wrote:
> 
>         Hi Justin,
> 
>         I made an insert.gro file for 2 water molecules,  and when I
>         used genbox I got a fatal error: more than one residue in insert
>         molecules, program terminated.
> 
> 
>     Right, like I said before, the insert.gro file should contain
>     coordinates for *one* molecule.
> 
> 
>         I wanted to look at insert.gro, it does not show anything. And
>         when I convert it to pdb I got a warning [file aminoacids.dat,
>         line 1]: Bad box file insert.gro
> 
> 
>     Well, how did you make this file?  A .gro file has a specific format:
> 
>     http://manual.gromacs.org/current/online/gro.html
> 
> 
>         When I looked at the insert.pdb file I found only 1.5 water
>         molecule! Which means 1 water plus a OH. Do you have any idea
>         what should I do or if I am missing some thing? Many Thanks in
>         Advance/Jamie
> 
> 
>     I have no idea how you created this broken file, so I can't really
>     comment :) The easiest thing to do (I would think) would be to take
>     the first molecule of spc216.gro, keep the header lines, set number
>     of atoms = 3 and preserve the box information at the bottom.  I've
>     used that before in a few cases.
> 
>     -Justin
> 
>         On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Justin A. Lemkul
>         <jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>
>         <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>            Jamie Seyed wrote:
> 
>                Hi Justin,
>                Thanks for your answer,
>                On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Justin A. Lemkul
>                <jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>
>         <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>>
>                <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>
>         <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>>>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>                   Jamie Seyed wrote:
> 
>                       Dear all,
>                       I want to know how can I use genbox to fill inside
>         of the
>                pore
>                       as well as a layer outside. From the "man genbox"
>         page I
>                try to
>                       use -shell with a negative value (?) but it put waters
>                far from
>                       the outside of the pore and I think it does not care
>                about the
>                       sign. It seems strange to me because when I had 10
>         10 10
>                in the
>                       last line of my f.gro, by a shell 0.5 or 0.2, I got a
>                layer of
>                       few molecule around the pore, but when I change it
>         to 1.
>                1. 1.,
>                       the water molecules generated far away. I
>         appreciate if
>                someone
>                       tell me (1) how I can add water inside the pore
>         and (2) why
> 
> 
>                   (1) The -vdwd option may help, or even -ci -nmol.  If
>         you have a
>                   pore, wouldn't water diffuse in over time anyway during
>                   equilibration (assuming an otherwise correct setup and
>         realistic
>                   physical model)?
> 
>                 Long time ago I did an experiment on water in confined
>         geometry
>                and I want to see if the results can obtain from the
>                 simulation... So for using -nmol -ci (at random
>         position), it
>                says I must use a file like insert.gro would you please
>         explain
>                me how I can make insert.gro?
> 
> 
>            The "insert.gro" file contains the coordinates of one
>         molecule that
>            you want to insert, i.e. one water molecule.
> 
>            -Justin
> 
>                   (2) If you haven't re-positioned your system within
>         the box, it
>                   probably doesn't make any sense.  The Gromacs
>         convention is
>                to place
>                   the corner of the box at the coordinate origin, and
>                everything else
>                   is relative to that.  Is a 1-nm cubic box large enough to
>                encompass
>                   your system?  If not, genbox is doing what it's told -
>         filling a
>                   1-nm box near the origin, and leaving everything else out.
> 
> 
> 
>                   -Justin
> 
>                       changing the box size will give a opposite result.
>         Please
>                       advise..Thanks in advance/Jamie
> 
> 
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Justin A. Lemkul
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ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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