[gmx-users] calculation of density for martini coarse-grained

mohammad agha mra_bu at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 15 19:58:28 CET 2011


Thank you very much.

Best Regards

Sara



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 From: Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [gmx-users] calculation of density for martini coarse-grained
 


mohammad agha wrote:
> Thank you very much for your reply.
> 
> I experienced "genbox" for gromos force field for my molecules and for dspc molecules in martini tutorial in lipid_tutorial.tar.gz, I took the same warning for all them!!!
> May I know that what should I do, Please ?
> 

Probably nothing.  If you use a coordinate file as input into a number of tools you'll likely get the same.  As I said, it is a warning, not an error that needs fixing.  It is up to you, as the user, to verify that the output of the program is what you want it to be.  Issues related to measured density as you've been reporting are likely a consequence of bizarre atom names that Gromacs doesn't understand.  You have to (correctly) do the math to find what the density should be.

-Justin

> Best Regards
> Sara
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu>
> *To:* mohammad agha <mra_bu at yahoo.com>; Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 15, 2011 9:26 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [gmx-users] calculation of density for martini coarse-grained
> 
> 
> 
> mohammad agha wrote:
>  > Dear Prof.
>  >
>  > Thank you very much.
>  > Excuse me, I am beginner in gromacs and my experience about warnings is low, but I think my problem return to this warning:
>  >
>  > WARNING: masses and atomic (Van der Waals) radii will be determined
>  >          based on residue and atom names. These numbers can deviate
>  >          from the correct mass and radius of the atom type.
>  >
> 
> The warning indicates that names may give misleading values for masses and van der Waals interactions.  For instance, is "CA" an alpha-carbon, or calcium?  In this context, the program reporting the error doesn't know.  Since MARTINI uses lots of weird atom names for its structures, the program is warning you that the output may be incorrect, or perhaps it may not; hence why it is a warning and not an error.
> 
> -Justin
> 
>  > I checked mailing list but I didn't find my answer!
>  > Please help me.
>  >
>  > Best Regards
>  >
>  > Sara
>  > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  > *From:* Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>>
>  > *To:* Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org>>
>  > *Sent:* Thursday, December 15, 2011 6:31 PM
>  > *Subject:* Re: [gmx-users] calculation of density for martini coarse-grained
>  >
>  > On 16/12/2011 1:36 AM, mohammad agha wrote:
>  >> Dear Prof.
>  >>
>  >> Thank you for your reply.
>  >> I'm really sorry for my mistake in writing the density!! my calculated density become: 90.254026 gr/l while gromacs reported 15.8111g/l! why?
>  >> In the martini_v2.0.itp file, has been written "all particle masses are set to 72 amu". May I know my mistake, Please?
>  >>
>  >> My solvent molecules aren't named "SOL".
>  >>
>  >> Command lines and terminal outputs:
>  >>
>  >> 1- genbox -ci cg.gro -nmol 151 -box 10 10 10 -o 1.gro
>  >> output of terminal is:
>  >> Output configuration contains 755 atoms in 151 residues
>  >> Volume                :        1000 (nm^3)
>  >> Density                :    15.8111 (g/l)
>  >> Number of SOL molecules:      0  >
>  > One possibility is that the Martini force field doesn't have the masses set up correctly for genbox to match from the coordinate file. Perhaps in share/top/atommass.dat?
>  >
>  >> 2- editconf -f 1.gro -o 2.gro -c -d 1.0 -bt cubic -box 14.8 14.8 14.8 -center 7.4 7.4 7.4
>  >> Output of terminal:
>  >> Read 755 atoms
>  >> Volume: 1000 nm^3, corresponds to roughly 450000 electrons
>  >> No velocities found
>  >>    system size :  9.803  9.897  9.978 (nm)
>  >>    diameter    : 13.969              (nm)
>  >>    center      :  5.239  4.900  4.932 (nm)
>  >>    box vectors : 10.000 10.000 10.000 (nm)
>  >>    box angles  :  90.00  90.00  90.00 (degrees)
>  >>    box volume  :1000.00              (nm^3)
>  >>    shift      :  2.161  2.500  2.468 (nm)
>  >> new center      :  7.400  7.400  7.400 (nm)
>  >> new box vectors : 14.800 14.800 14.800 (nm)
>  >> new box angles  :  90.00  90.00  90.00 (degrees)
>  >> new box volume  :3241.79              (nm^3)
>  >
>  > So the box volume of 2.gro is not 1000 nm^3.
>  >
>  >>
>  >> 3- grompp -f em.mdp -c 2.gro -p topol.top -o e1.tpr
>  >> output of terminal:
>  >> NOTE 1 [file topol.top, line 22]:
>  >>  System has non-zero total charge: 1.510000e+02
>  >>
>  >> 3- mdrun -v -deffnm e1
>  >>  4- genbox -cp e1.gro -cs water.gro -o 3.gro -maxsol 32551
>  >> output of terminal:
>  >> Output configuration contains 33306 atoms in 32702 residues
>  >> Volume                :    3241.79 (nm^3)
>  >> Density                :    3070.15 (g/l)
>  >> Number of SOL molecules:      0  _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
>  >> I have a problem about density in step 4 after adding water, again!!!
>  >
>  > Could be the same issue - apparently the water is something like three times as heavy as normal water (whose density is around 1000g/L).
>  >
>  >> _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
>  >> 5- grompp -f em.mdp -c 3.gro -p topol.top -o e3.tpr
>  >> output of terminal:
>  >> NOTE 1 [file topol.top, line 22]:
>  >>  System has non-zero total charge: 1.510000e+02
>  >>  Analysing residue names:
>  >> There are: 32702      Other residues
>  >> Analysing residues not classified as Protein/DNA/RNA/Water and splitting into groups...
>  >> Number of degrees of freedom in T-Coupling group rest is 99915.00
>  >> This run will generate roughly 49 Mb of data
>  >>
>  >> There was 1 note
>  >>
>  >> 6- mdrun -v -deffnm e3
>  >>
>  >> 7-  genion -s e3.tpr -o 4.gro -p topol.top -nname cl- -nn 151
>  >> output of terminal:
>  >> Reading file e3.tpr, VERSION 4.5.4 (single precision)
>  >> Using a coulomb cut-off of 1.2 nm
>  >> Will try to add 0 NA ions and 151 cl- ions.
>  >> Select a continuous group of solvent molecules
>  >> Group    0 (        System) has 33306 elements
>  >> Group    1 (          Other) has 33306 elements
>  >> Group    2 (            CA) has  755 elements
>  >> Group    3 (              W) has 32551 elements
>  >> Select a group: 3
>  >> __________________________________________________________________________________________________
>  >> Adding ions was done successfully but in the genion.log file had been written "System total charge: 151.000"
>  >
>  > That would be normal before adding ions, and indicative of a problem after adding ions, but you haven't made this clear... You say it was successful, and then announce that it reports a total charge consistent with failure. If genion succeeded in changing some solute to ions, its output is very clear about this.
>  >
>  >> __________________________________________________________________________________________________
>  >> 8- grompp -f em.mdp -c 4.gro -p topol.top -o e4.tpr -maxwarn 1
>  >> output of terminal:
>  >> WARNING 1 [file topol.top, line 23]:
>  >>  151 non-matching atom names
>  >>  atom names from topol.top will be used
>  >>  atom names from 4.gro will be ignored
>  >
>  > Don't use -maxwarn unless you can write down why it is OK... fix the problem. Apparently one file doesn't have the changes to the ions.
>  >
>  > Mark
>  >
>  >>
>  >> Analysing residue names:
>  >> There are: 32702      Other residues
>  >> Analysing residues not classified as Protein/DNA/RNA/Water and splitting into groups...
>  >> Number of degrees of freedom in T-Coupling group rest is 99915.00
>  >> This run will generate roughly 49 Mb of data
>  >>
>  >> There was 1 warning
>  >> ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
>  >> My topol.top file is:
>  >> #include "martini_v2.0.itp"
>  >> #include "martini_v2.0_ions.itp"
>  >> #include "martini_v2.0_lipids.itp"
>  >> ; Include Position restraint file
>  >> #ifdef POSRES
>  >> #include "posre.itp"
>  >> #endif
>  >>
>  >> [ system ]
>  >> CA in water
>  >>
>  >> [ molecules ]
>  >> CA  151
>  >> W          32400
>  >> cl-        151
>  >> _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
>  >>
>  >> Best Regards
>  >> Sara
>  >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  >> *From:* Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>> <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au <mailto:Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>>
>  >> *To:* Discussion list for GROMACS users <gmx-users at gromacs.org <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org>> <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org <mailto:gmx-users at gromacs.org>>
>  >> *Sent:* Thursday, December 15, 2011 11:19 AM
>  >> *Subject:* Re: [gmx-users] calculation of density for martini coarse-grained
>  >>
>  >> On 15/12/2011 5:59 PM, mohammad agha wrote:
>  >>> Dear Prof.
>  >>>
>  >>> May I ask you two questions, Please?
>  >>> 1- I work with MARTINI force field. I have a surfactant molecule consists of 5 beads. After I placed 151 surfactants into my simulation box (cubic) with length of 10 nm, Gromacs reported:
>  >>>
>  >>> Volume = 1000 nm3
>  >>> Density = 15.8111 gr/l
>  >>>
>  >>> My volume is right: 10 nm * 10 nm * 10 nm = 1000 nm3 = 1000*10e-24 L, but about density, I think that I am wrong:
>  >>> 151 * 5 = 755 beads ( since all particle masses are set to 72 amu in MARTINI ), then 755 * 72 amu = 54360 amu,
>  >>> and 54360 amu / 6.023*10e+23 = 90254.026*10e-24 gr
>  >>> then, density = 52.23 gr/l but the Gromacs gave 15.8111 gr/l!!!
>  >>
>  >> Please use standard abbreviations for your units unless you want risk people not taking you seriously...
>  >>
>  >> I've no idea how you can divide 90254.026*10e-24 by 1000*10e-24 and get 52.23 or 15.8111
>  >>
>  >>> And there is the same problem after adding water and ion!
>  >>> May I know my mistake, Please?
>  >>>
>  >>> 2- My surfactant molecule has one positive charge, after I added 151 surfactants, water and antifreezewater, Gromacs answer me that (for each step):
>  >>> NOTE1: system has non-zero total charge: 1.510000e+2
>  >>> Then I added 151 ions to my system with -nn 151 for neutralization, but in the genion.log was reported that "System total charge: 151.000"!!!,
>  >>
>  >> When did genion report that, before or after adding ions? Did the addition succeed? Are your solvent molecules named "SOL"?
>  >>
>  >>> but after doing grompp, GROMACS didn't report "note" about system charge. Is this right?
>  >>
>  >> We don't know. Copied and pasted command lines and terminal output are a lot more useful for getting help than sentences describing them.
>  >>
>  >> Mark
>  >>
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