[gmx-users] Re:Re: gmx-users Digest, Vol 79, Issue 8

Mark Abraham Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
Tue Nov 2 12:05:46 CET 2010


On 2/11/2010 9:28 PM, Amin Arabbagheri wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Are there differences between functions 9 and 1? So can I implement 
> these dihedrals in successive lines, just using function 9 or 1?
>

Please read the dihedral manual sections in chapter 4 and 5 and have a 
look at (e.g.) some examples in the AMBER FF files.

Mark
>
> Amin
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>     Date: Tuesday, 2 November, 2010, 5:29
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>        1. Re: multiple torsions for one dihedral (Mark Abraham)
>        2. questions about umbrella sampling (mircial at sjtu.edu.cn
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>        3. RE: Reg:walls and pbc xy (Berk Hess)
>        4. Re: Reg:walls and pbc xy (vinothkumar mohanakrishnan)
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>     Message: 1
>     Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:21:29 +1100
>     From: Mark Abraham <mark.abraham at anu.edu.au
>     </mc/compose?to=mark.abraham at anu.edu.au>>
>     Subject: Re: [gmx-users] multiple torsions for one dihedral
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>     Yes, multiple "type 1" dihedrals for use with AMBER and CHARMM
>     forcefields can be implemented, either as successive
>     [dihedraltypes] of type 9 (since GROMACS 4.0, IIRC) or as multiple
>     [dihedrals] of type 1 (since ages).
>
>     Mark
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: Amin Arabbagheri <amin_arab at yahoo.com
>     </mc/compose?to=amin_arab at yahoo.com>>
>     Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2010 17:06
>     Subject: [gmx-users] multiple torsions for one dihedral
>     To: gmx-users at gromacs.org </mc/compose?to=gmx-users at gromacs.org>
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>     | > Hi all,
>     >
>     > I'm using AMBER99p force field in GROMACS. In the AMBER
>     forcefield for some dihedrals, there are several values, in which
>     n values are different.
>     > As an example, for C3-C3-N-C, I have
>     > C3-C3-N-C   .50  180.0  -4
>     > C3-C3-N-C   .15  180.0  -3
>     > C3-C3-N-C   .53      0.0   1
>     >
>     > For the version 4, is there a convenient way to use these
>     multiple  dihedrals?
>     > Thanks,
>     > Amin
>     >
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>     Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:16:55 +0800
>     From: mircial at sjtu.edu.cn </mc/compose?to=mircial at sjtu.edu.cn>
>     Subject: [gmx-users] questions about umbrella sampling
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>     Dear All:
>
>     I am using umbrella sampling method to calculate potential of mean
>     force and I encountered the following questions:
>     1, at the *.ppa file, I need to incorporate a parameter indicating the
>     "the position of the pull group will restraint to, relative to the
>     reference group" (i.e., the "pos1" parameter).
>
>     To my understanding, in the initial structure, the pull group is not
>     need to at the exact position defined by the aformationed parameter
>     ("pos1" parameter) in the .ppa file. I just need to put the pull group
>     near that position, am I right?
>
>     2, Since I need to define the position of the pull group relative to
>     the reference group. I need to calculate the mass center of the
>     reference group as well as that of the pull group. Does there any
>     tools in GROMACS to calculate their mass center?
>
>     Thank you very much for your time and your kindness!
>
>     Best Regards
>
>     R-X Gu
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>     Message: 3
>     Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 09:07:19 +0100
>     From: Berk Hess <gmx3 at hotmail.com </mc/compose?to=gmx3 at hotmail.com>>
>     Subject: RE: [gmx-users] Reg:walls and pbc xy
>     To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org
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>     Message-ID: <COL113-W21D35D03BE8961C73BD6188E490 at phx.gbl
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>     Hi,
>
>     With wall_r_linpot your wall potential is linear from 1 nm downwards.
>     Since the LJ force is negative at 1 nm, your atoms are attracted
>     to the walls.
>
>     But why not simply use two interfaces? You get double the sampling
>     for free
>     and you do not have to bother with complicated wall setups.
>
>     Berk
>
>     Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:49:48 +0530
>     From: kmvinoth at gmail.com </mc/compose?to=kmvinoth at gmail.com>
>     To: gmx-users at gromacs.org </mc/compose?to=gmx-users at gromacs.org>
>     Subject: [gmx-users] Reg:walls and pbc xy
>
>     Hi Gromacians
>
>     I want to create a liquid-liquid interface and study its
>     properties. Hence i combined two boxes ( say water and DCE). The
>     two boxes  are well equilibrated before merging and i created an
>     interface. Now i want to perform energy minimisation for the
>     interface by appling pbc in the xy direction and using walls. ( If
>     i apply pbc in all the directions i get two interfaces where as i
>     need only one interface hence i am applying it only on the xy
>     direction and removing the boundary condition in the Z
>     direction.).When i performed the energy minimisation for the
>     interfacial system but i found that my system is exploding
>     (several PDB files are written while running mdrun is executed)
>     and i dont know why?.There is no issue when i use pbc in all
>     directions. below is my em.mdp file. any help is highly appreciated.
>
>
>     integrator    = steep
>     emtol        = 40.0
>     emstep          = 0.01
>     nsteps        = 10000
>     nstxout        = 100
>     nstvout        = 100
>     nstfout        = 100
>     nstlog        = 100
>
>     nstenergy    = 100
>     nstlist        = 5
>     ns_type        = grid
>     rlist        = 1.0
>     coulombtype    = PME
>     rcoulomb    = 1.0
>     vdwtype        = Cut-off
>     rvdw        = 1.0
>
>     ewald_geometry    = 3dc
>     nwall        = 2
>     wall_type    = 9-3
>     wall_r_linpot    = 1
>     wall_atomtype   = opls_966 opls_968
>     wall_density    = 9-3 9-3
>     wall_ewald_zfac    = 3
>     pbc        = xy
>     fourierspacing  = 0.18
>
>
>
>     Regards
>     Vinoth
>
>
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>     Message: 4
>     Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:59:31 +0530
>     From: vinothkumar mohanakrishnan <kmvinoth at gmail.com
>     </mc/compose?to=kmvinoth at gmail.com>>
>     Subject: Re: [gmx-users] Reg:walls and pbc xy
>     To: Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org
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>     Hi Berk
>
>     I need only one interface because if i have two interfaces the
>     "capillary
>     waves from one interface disturb the other even though the
>     distance between
>     the average positions of the two interfaces are larger than the
>     potential
>     cut-off" (this was said in the literature).
>
>     Can anyone explain me why walls are used for interfaces? and what
>     is the
>     purpose of using walls?.
>     suppose if i put nwall =2 where exactly are the walls created? can
>     anyone
>     explain me with an example?
>
>     i read the manual but it is not making any sense to me. if i know
>     this i
>     know what correction i should make in my mdp file to make it work
>     for pbc
>     xy. any help is highly appreciated.
>
>     Regards
>     Vinoth
>
>     On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Berk Hess <gmx3 at hotmail.com
>     </mc/compose?to=gmx3 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     >  Hi,
>     >
>     > With wall_r_linpot your wall potential is linear from 1 nm
>     downwards.
>     > Since the LJ force is negative at 1 nm, your atoms are attracted
>     to the
>     > walls.
>     >
>     > But why not simply use two interfaces? You get double the
>     sampling for free
>     > and you do not have to bother with complicated wall setups.
>     >
>     > Berk
>     >
>     > ------------------------------
>     > Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:49:48 +0530
>     > From: kmvinoth at gmail.com </mc/compose?to=kmvinoth at gmail.com>
>     > To: gmx-users at gromacs.org </mc/compose?to=gmx-users at gromacs.org>
>     > Subject: [gmx-users] Reg:walls and pbc xy
>     >
>     >
>     > Hi Gromacians
>     >
>     > I want to create a liquid-liquid interface and study its
>     properties. Hence
>     > i combined two boxes ( say water and DCE). The two boxes  are well
>     > equilibrated before merging and i created an interface. Now i
>     want to
>     > perform energy minimisation for the interface by appling pbc in
>     the xy
>     > direction and using walls. ( If i apply pbc in all the
>     directions i get two
>     > interfaces where as i need only one interface hence i am
>     applying it only on
>     > the xy direction and removing the boundary condition in the Z
>     > direction.).When i performed the energy minimisation for the
>     interfacial
>     > system but i found that my system is exploding (several PDB
>     files are
>     > written while running mdrun is executed) and i dont know
>     why?.There is no
>     > issue when i use pbc in all directions. below is my em.mdp file.
>     any help is
>     > highly appreciated.
>     >
>     > integrator    = steep
>     > emtol        = 40.0
>     > emstep          = 0.01
>     > nsteps        = 10000
>     > nstxout        = 100
>     > nstvout        = 100
>     > nstfout        = 100
>     > nstlog        = 100
>     > nstenergy    = 100
>     > nstlist        = 5
>     > ns_type        = grid
>     > rlist        = 1.0
>     > coulombtype    = PME
>     > rcoulomb    = 1.0
>     > vdwtype        = Cut-off
>     > rvdw        = 1.0
>     > ewald_geometry    = 3dc
>     > nwall        = 2
>     > wall_type    = 9-3
>     > wall_r_linpot    = 1
>     > wall_atomtype   = opls_966 opls_968
>     > wall_density    = 9-3 9-3
>     > wall_ewald_zfac    = 3
>     > pbc        = xy
>     > fourierspacing  = 0.18
>     >
>     >
>     > Regards
>     > Vinoth
>     >
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