[gmx-users] Reg: Running Energy minimisation for dichloroethane (DCE)

vinothkumar mohanakrishnan kmvinoth at gmail.com
Thu Oct 21 08:39:26 CEST 2010


Hi justin

I found what went wrong and i corrected my mdp file.now the system
equilibrated to the desired temperature 300 K (plus r minus 30 K) is this
ok?
Apart from that i want to know how you plot the average running pressure and
density in your tutorial for lyzosyme (redline). i just  want to do that for
DCE. any help is highly appreciated.

Regards
Vinoth

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> vinothkumar mohanakrishnan wrote:
>
>> Hi Justin
>>
>> I corrected the mistake what you said and i am able to run energy
>> minimisation and equilibration. but when i view my em.gro and
>> equilibration.gro in VMD it seems to me that the bonds between the atoms are
>> broken in molecules.I used g_energy to check weather the system has
>>
>
> VMD tries to guess where bonds should be, but does not always do a good
> job. Your topology defines bonds.  These are the only bonds that there will
> be.  None can be broken or formed in standard MD.
>
>
>  equilibrated to the required temperature (300K) i found that the variation
>> in the temperature was 100K (plus r minus) . i am not able find out what
>> went wrong. any help is highly appreciated.
>>
>>
> Without seeing your .mdp file, there's no way to know.  The fluctuation
> does seem too high, though, unless your system really is just that unstable.
>  Are other properties converged - potential energy, density, etc?  What type
> of ensemble are you using?
>
> -Justin
>
>  Regards
>> Vinoth
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu<mailto:
>> jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>    vinothkumar mohanakrishnan wrote:
>>
>>        Dear Justin
>>
>>        what corrections i should make to ffoplsaan.itp to make it
>>        correct. what i should give instead of CAB and CLAA?.
>>
>>
>>    You must use atom types, not names.  Unfortunately, you've chosen to
>>    use atom names, which are also types, which makes all of this quite
>>    confusing if you're not sure what you're doing.
>>
>>    You defined two new atom types - opls_966 (CAB) and opls_967 (CLAA),
>>    which are the only indicators you are allowed to use if introducing
>>    new types.  Thus, references to atom names (CAC, CLAD) will generate
>>    fatal errors.
>>
>>
>>        i copied the .rtp .atp .itp files from
>>        usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top to my working directory and
>>        added these parameters to the corresponding files. what you mean
>>        is should i need to add these parameters to the source directory
>>        ( usr/local/gromacs/share/gromacs/top)?
>>
>>
>>    Your topology needs to be consistent with whatever files need to be
>>    included. By default, Gromacs checks the working directory first,
>>    but if you've moved to a new (sub)directory to carry out further
>>    steps, the grompp will not find your modified files, but will
>>    instead locate only the default force field files in $GMXLIB.
>>     Either keep all your work in one directory (which can get messy),
>>    or make use of the "include" keyword in the .mdp file.  Any
>>    directory specified there will be searched after the working
>>    directory, but before $GMXLIB.
>>
>>    -Justin
>>
>>        Regards
>>        Vinoth
>>
>>
>>        On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Justin A. Lemkul
>>        <jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>
>>        <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>           vinothkumar mohanakrishnan wrote:
>>
>>               Hi all
>>
>>               i added new atomtype for dichloroethane (DCE) and added the
>>               corresponding parameters in the .rtp, .atp, .bon.itp,
>> .nb.itp
>>               respectively. given below are my additions to the
>>        corresponding
>>               files respectively.
>>
>>               *ffoplsaa.rtp*
>>
>>               [ DCE ]
>>                [ atoms ]
>>                CLAA opls_967 -0.2270  1
>>                CAB  opls_966  0.2270  1
>>                CAC  opls_966  0.2270  2
>>                CLAD opls_967 -0.2270  2
>>
>>               [ bonds ]
>>                CLAA    CAB
>>                CAB    CAC
>>                CAC    CLAD
>>
>>               [ angles ]
>>                CLAA    CAB    CAC
>>                CAB    CAC    CLAD
>>
>>               [ dihedrals ]
>>                CLAA    CAB    CAC    CLAD
>>
>>               *ffoplsaa.atp*
>>
>>                opls_966   14.02700  ; CH2 for DCE
>>                opls_967   35.45300  ; CL for DCE
>>
>>               *ffoplsaabon.itp*
>>
>>               [bondtypes]
>>               CLAA  CAB     1    0.17870   194137.6   ; CL-CH2 for DCE
>>               CAB   CAC     1    0.15300   259408.0   ; CH2-CH2 for DCE
>>               CAC   CLAD    1    0.17870   194137.6   ; CL-CH2 for DCE
>>
>>               [angletypes]
>>               CLAA  CAB   CAC       1   108.200    368.192   ; C-C-CL
>>        for DCE
>>               CAB   CAC   CLAD      1   108.200    368.192   ; C-C-CL
>>        for DCE
>>
>>               [dihedraltypes]
>>               CLAA   CAB     CAC   CLAD     3     20.76096  -0.4184
>>           27.011904  0.00000   0.00000   0.00000 ; for DCE
>>
>>
>>           You shouldn't be using atom names in the [*types] directives.
>>         What
>>           you should be using are the interpolated types from
>>        ffoplsaanb.itp,
>>           thus you have only utilized opls_966 (CAB) and opls_967 (CLAA).
>>
>>               *ffoplsaanb.itp*
>>
>>
>>               opls_966   CAB    6    14.02700    0.227       A
>> 3.98000e-01
>>                4.76976e-01 ; CH2 of DCE
>>               opls_967   CLAA   17   35.45300   -0.227       A
>> 3.16000e-01
>>                0.20920e+01 ; Cl of DCE
>>
>>               *dce.pdb*
>>
>>               HETATM    1 CLAA DCE     1       6.300  -2.280   1.360  1.00
>>               20.00            CL
>>               HETATM    2  CAB DCE     1       5.060  -3.540   1.500  1.00
>>               20.00             C
>>               HETATM    3  CAC DCE     1       4.320  -3.740   0.170  1.00
>>               20.00             C
>>               HETATM    4 CLAD DCE     1       3.270  -2.350  -0.210  1.00
>>               20.00            CL
>>
>>               After adding all this, when i run grompp i get the error as
>>               *fatal error Unknown bond_atomtype CLAA*. can any one tell
>> me
>>               why this happens?.
>>
>>
>>           Have you been sure to #include the correct (modified) force
>> field
>>           files?  That is, if you made a local copy and adjusted them,
>>        these
>>           won't be the files that pdb2gmx will #include by default.
>>
>>           -Justin
>>
>>               Regards
>>               Vinoth
>>
>>
>>           --     ========================================
>>
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>>           Ph.D. Candidate
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>>           Virginia Tech
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