[gmx-users] solvation

Jamie Seyed jamie.seyed at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 20:52:56 CEST 2009


Hi Justin,
My aim is to add water inside the pore (I do not care about outside), so as
you told me I used the first line of spc216.gro and I do not know why after
the calculations that I posted before it says segmentation fault?? Thanks in
advance/Jamie

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> 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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