[gmx-users] velacc & box of water

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Sun Oct 11 19:33:55 CEST 2009



Jamie Seyed wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> yes resize.gro is a created file from editconf which has box size of 
>  5.05918 on the last line
> my command was "editconf -bt cubic -f spc216.pdb -o resize.gro -d 1"

Do you actually have separate spc216.pdb and spc216.gro files?  Just trying to 
make sure this actually worked.

> and for second command I changed 1 to 5 but it still stops in the same 
> point. I am trying to examine 2 methods that you & Mark suggested me to 

Very weird.  Both of your commands worked on my machine.  What version of 
Gromacs are you using?  Does genbox work for other systems?

-Justin

> create a box of water.../Many Thanks/Jamie
> 
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu 
> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     Jamie Seyed wrote:
> 
>         Dear Gmx users,
>         Does any one know why genbox stops when I use this command:
>         "genbox -cp resize.gro -cs spc216.gro -o b4em.pdb -p topol.top"
>         or when I use this command:
>         "genbox -cs spc216.gro -box 1 1 1 -maxsol 500 -o out.gro -p
>         topol.top"
>         It goes until
>         Reading solvent configuration
>         Solvent configuration contains 648 atoms in 216 residues
>         and then stops....
>         Would you please let me know why it happens?? Many Thanks in
>         Advance/Jamie
> 
> 
>     Is "resize.gro" a new file?  Or something you have created before
>     (i.e., an empty file with a box size defined)?
> 
>     Defining -box 1 1 1 generates a 1-nm cubic box, which is almost
>     certainly too small to contain 500 solvent molecules.  Define an
>     appropriate box size.
> 
>     -Justin
> 
> 
>          On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Jamie Seyed
>         <jamie.seyed at gmail.com <mailto:jamie.seyed at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:jamie.seyed at gmail.com <mailto:jamie.seyed at gmail.com>>>
>         wrote:
> 
>            Thanks to Justin & Mark for answering my second question...
>            Could any one give me a hint on my first question that I copy
>         it again?
>            --about g_velacc and calculating the diffusion constant from
>         that.
>            In mailing list people say that we need to divide it by mass
>         squared
>            and 1/3. Then I found another recent post that said it has been
>            included in the code... Would you please clarify this that if
>         I need
>            the factors or not. Also I found 2 numbers after integration.
> 
>            Integral   1   0.01595
>            set    average
>            SS1   3.718082e-04
>            Would you please inform me what are these number and what is the
>            relation between them?
>            Many Thanks in Advance/Jamie
> 
>            On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 8:39 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:
> 
>                    Dear Gmx Users,
>                    I have a 2 questions. First about g_velacc and
>         calculating
>                    the diffusion constant from that. In mailing list
>         people say
>                    that we need to divide it by mass squared and 1/3. Then I
>                    found another recent post that said it has been
>         included in
>                    the code... Would you please clarify this that if I
>         need the
>                    factors or not. Also I found 2 numbers after integration.
>                    Integral   1   0.01595
>                    set    average
>                    SS1   3.718082e-04
>                    --1) Would you please inform me what are these number and
>                    what is the relation between them?
>                    
> 
>                Can't comment on the first part...maybe the code will
>         point you
>                in the right direction?
> 
> 
>                    --2) My second question is I want to make a box of only
>                    water (spce) with let say 500 water molecules. Would you
>                    please give me quick hints how to do it (the proper
>         way) or
>                    refer me to good point? Up to now I can only have 216
>         water
>                    molecules from tuto/water folder and I tried a lot
> 
> 
>                This task might be approached in a couple of ways:
> 
>                1. genconf -nbox to define a suitable number of replicate
>         systems.
>                2. genbox -box -maxsol 500 to define a suitably-sized box and
>                fill it with only the desired number of molecules.
> 
>                -Justin
> 
>                    to start from the beginning, but I could not make it... I
>                    appreciate if you help me to understand the first
>         issue and
>                    be able to overcome the second one. Many Thanks in
>         Advance/Jamie
> 
> 
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Justin A. Lemkul
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ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
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