[gmx-users] Re: change in the secondary structure after simulation

bharat gupta bharat.85.monu at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 14:25:34 CET 2011


>  I didn't gave any -c flag while md run .. and there is no confout.gro in
> my folder .. I have attached the graph obtained after energy minimzation ..
> I want to ask why the graph is not coming like the one shown in the tutorial
> .. I guess I asked that same question earlier also ?? ..  Here is the
> details of energy minimization result
>
> Steepest Descents converged to Fmax < 1000 in 720 steps
> Potential Energy  = -6.7970475e+05
> Maximum force     =  9.5201904e+02 on atom 78
> Norm of force     =  1.9553707e+01
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> bharat gupta wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think that there is any problem in the structure .. since I am
>>> simulating the crystal structure taken from PDB ... and I have checked the
>>> structure generated after pdb2gmx and solvation..
>>>  Since I am reapeating the simulation again I want to know and I am on
>>> energy minimzation step I want to know .. how can I retrieve the structure
>>> after minimization ..
>>>
>>>
>> The structure after minimization (or any process done by mdrun) is
>> contained in whatever filename you passed to the -c flag.  If you haven't
>> specified any name, it is confout.gro.
>>
>> -Justin
>>
>>  On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au<mailto:
>>> Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    On 27/01/2011 11:11 PM, bharat gupta wrote:
>>>
>>>>    I used the same .mdp files that are given in the lysozyme tutorial
>>>>    .. Since I was knowing what all parameters to change .. but after
>>>>    energy minimization and equilibration steps , the graphs that I
>>>>    got were fine ... even the rmsd graph of the final structure is
>>>>    also fine .. I have attached the final rmsd graph of the structure ..
>>>>
>>>
>>>    That suggests the problem was in the structure you started the
>>>    simulation from, like I've suggested a few times now :-)
>>>
>>>    Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>    On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu
>>>>    <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        bharat gupta wrote:
>>>>
>>>>            I generated the secondary structure profile of structure
>>>>            retrieved from the last frame of the simulation ... In
>>>>            that profile those amino acids that are shown as loops in
>>>>            VMD doesnot have any secondary structure assignment ... it
>>>>            means that during simulation the structure got changed
>>>>            some how ... and It's really surprising ?? ... Can u tell
>>>>            me where can the fault be as I am planning to do the
>>>>            simulation again and this time I will check the structure
>>>>            after every step .. but for that I want to know how can I
>>>>            save the structure after every step say for eg. after
>>>>            energy minimization ..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        Secondary structure is dependent upon the chosen force field
>>>>        and the .mdp settings.  Since you've posted neither, there's
>>>>        no way to tell what might be to blame.
>>>>
>>>>        You can save more frequently by setting the proper output
>>>>        controls.  Read in the manual about the nst* options and set
>>>>        the accordingly.
>>>>
>>>>        -Justin
>>>>
>>>>            On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Justin A. Lemkul
>>>>            <jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>
>>>>             <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>               Mark Abraham wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                   On 01/27/11, *bharat gupta *
>>>>            <bharat.85.monu at gmail.com <mailto:bharat.85.monu at gmail.com>
>>>>                   <mailto:bharat.85.monu at gmail.com
>>>>            <mailto:bharat.85.monu at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>                       I actually don't understand exactly what u are
>>>>            asking ..
>>>>                       since I am not an expert with gromacs..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                   Please leave the old context for the discussion in
>>>>            future
>>>>                   emails. Only you are paying so much attention to
>>>>            your work that
>>>>                   you can be sure of remembering things :-)
>>>>
>>>>                   If your simulation started with these strands
>>>>            unfolded, then
>>>>                   your problem is somewhere else. However, you have
>>>>            to be able to
>>>>                   tell us what was the initial conformation, and when
>>>>            your "first
>>>>                   trajectory frame" (per last email) happened in the
>>>>            simulation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>               I would also add that VMD does a fairly poor job
>>>>            sometimes of
>>>>               guessing secondary structure.  So if no beta strand was
>>>>            present in
>>>>               the very first frame, that doesn't necessarily mean the
>>>>            secondary
>>>>               structure wasn't stable, it just means VMD didn't
>>>>            display it properly.
>>>>
>>>>               -Justin
>>>>
>>>>                   Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                       I don't know when is was written .. Here are
>>>>            some lines from
>>>>                       the log files of simulation ...
>>>>                       Statistics over 1500001 steps using 300001 frames
>>>>
>>>>                         Energies (kJ/mol)
>>>>                                Angle    Proper Dih. Ryckaert-Bell.
>>>>               LJ-14
>>>>                           Coulomb-14
>>>>                          7.35090e+03    4.37413e+02    3.60104e+03
>>>>         5.26705e+03
>>>>                          2.58894e+04
>>>>                              LJ (SR)  Disper. corr.   Coulomb (SR)
>>>>        Coul. recip.
>>>>                            Potential
>>>>                          1.05399e+05   -2.92853e+03   -6.79288e+05
>>>>        -1.07015e+05
>>>>                         -6.41286e+05
>>>>                          Kinetic En.   Total Energy    Temperature
>>>>            Pres. DC (bar)
>>>>                       Pressure (bar)
>>>>                          1.03484e+05   -5.37802e+05    3.00003e+02
>>>>        -2.37485e+02
>>>>                          1.02890e+00
>>>>                         Constr. rmsd
>>>>                          0.00000e+00
>>>>
>>>>                                Box-X          Box-Y          Box-Z
>>>>                          7.42618e+00    7.42618e+00    7.42618e+00
>>>>
>>>>                         Total Virial (kJ/mol)
>>>>                          3.44183e+04    3.40020e+01   -1.17357e+01
>>>>                          3.42160e+01    3.45369e+04   -2.46337e+01
>>>>                         -1.16644e+01   -2.48479e+01    3.44949e+04
>>>>
>>>>                         Pressure (bar)
>>>>                          1.99809e+00    9.48448e-02    4.57909e-01
>>>>                          7.74354e-02    4.97824e-01    1.84797e+00
>>>>                          4.52125e-01    1.86535e+00    5.90776e-01
>>>>
>>>>                         Total Dipole (D)
>>>>                         -1.86272e+02    4.46310e+01    2.08554e+02
>>>>
>>>>                            T-Protein  T-non-Protein
>>>>                          2.99904e+02    3.00013e+02
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                       M E G A - F L O P S   A C C O U N T I N G
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                       There were in total 1502 frames (as shown in
>>>>            VMD )...
>>>>                       I don't know about how it compared with the
>>>>            coordinates of
>>>>                       the structure that I gave to grompp
>>>>
>>>>                       --------
>>>>
>>>>                       Pls guide
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                       --             Bharat
>>>>                       Ph.D. Candidate
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>>>>               Virginia Tech
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>>>>        ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
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>>>>        Department of Biochemistry
>>>>        Virginia Tech
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>> Virginia Tech
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> Bharat
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> Biomolecular Engineering Laboratory
> Division of Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science
> Pusan National University
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Bharat
Ph.D. Candidate
Room No. : 7202A, 2nd Floor
Biomolecular Engineering Laboratory
Division of Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science
Pusan National University
Busan -609735
South Korea
Lab phone no. - +82-51-510-3680, +82-51-583-8343
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