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

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Thu Oct 21 13:26:22 CEST 2010



vinothkumar mohanakrishnan wrote:
> 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?

This is impossible to assess without seeing your .mdp settings.  A fluctuation 
of 10% is probably fine.

> 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.
> 

Xmgrace.

-Justin

> Regards
> Vinoth
> 
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu 
> <mailto: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>
>         <mailto: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>>
>                <mailto: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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Justin A. Lemkul
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ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
MILES-IGERT Trainee
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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