[gmx-users] Position Restrain md

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Sun Aug 16 00:37:46 CEST 2009



Jamie Seyed wrote:
> Hi,
> How can I make sure that position restraint is actually applied (after 
> grompp & mdrun)? When I grep "POSRES" or "posres" I can not see any 
> information... Many Thanks in Advance/Jamie
> 

If your topology has the appropriate #ifdef POSRES, and you have "define = 
-DPOSRES" in your .mdp file, then it worked :)  Position restraints are applied 
during mdrun, and show up in the .log file as "Position Rest." entries.

-Justin

> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au 
> <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>> wrote:
> 
>     Jamie Seyed wrote:
> 
>         Hi Mark,
>         Thanks for the answers. One question still remains for me: in
>         the fws
>         tutorial for PR step it only uses the pr.mdp (define = -DPOSRES)
>         and run
>         grompp followed by mdrun... Am I missing some thing? Because I
>         can not see
>         it introduces something that to be restrained..?? Would you
>         please let me
>         know what I am missing here?? Many Thanks in Advance/Jamie
> 
> 
>     pdb2gmx automatically produces a posre.itp file, whose position
>     restraint contents are #included from the .top file it produces, and
>     whose function is sensitive to the -DPOSRES option. Search the wiki
>     for discussion of this machinery.
> 
>     Mark
> 
>         On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Mark Abraham
>         <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>>wrote:
> 
>             Jamie Seyed wrote:
> 
>                 Dear all,
>                 I have questions regarding the position restrain md. I
>                 tried to find the
>                 answer of my questions from the mailing list, but it is
>                 not clear yet.
>                 In the fws tutorial when it says (in the pr.mdp)
>                 tc_grps=Protein   non-protein
>                 (1) Doesn't that mean everything in the system? I think
>                 for this case we
>                 can
>                 simply write "system" because system is made by protein
>                 and non-protein??
> 
>             It includes the whole system, but it is often a good idea
>             not to couple
>             groups of heterogeneous heat capacity to the same
>             thermostat. That said, if
>             the groups are too small, you get other problems. See also
>             http://oldwiki.gromacs.org/index.php/temperature_coupling
> 
>             (2) In this case how program recognize which one should
>             restrain and which
> 
>                 one not, because it included all??
> 
>             Temperature coupling has no linkage with position
>             restraints. You defined
>             the latter in your .top file.
> 
>             (3) This step is required for every system or only proteins??
>             It may or may not be useful in achieving stable
>             equilibration for any
>             system. See
>             http://oldwiki.gromacs.org/index.php/Steps_to_Perform_a_Simulation
> 
>             (4) If I want to make an index file and I specify a group
>             that need to be
> 
>                 constrained, in the generated index file I will get
>                 system and all its
>                 parts
>                 and an extra part for my specific part that need to be
>                 constrain...Is that
>                 ok??
> 
>             "constraints" are different from "restraints" in GROMACS
>             usage. make_ndx
>             does allow you to generate new index groups, but you will
>             need to (re-)read
>             the relevant manual sections to understand that neither of
>             these algorithms
>             uses index groups. (Or to prove my memory wrong!)
> 
>             (5) In my case I have a molecule (MOL) and water (SOL), for
>             position
> 
>                 restrain md should I use "tc_grps=MOL   SOL" (according
>                 to fws tutorial)
>                 or
>                 I need only write "tc_grps=MOL"??  Many Thanks in
>                 Advance/Jamie
> 
>             The latter won't work, for all atoms must be members of a
>             temperature-coupling group if any are.
> 
>             What you actually need is a clear understanding of your
>             strategic
>             objective. Hopefully some of the links will move you towards
>             that.
> 
>             Mark
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Department of Biochemistry
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