[gmx-users] membrane-protein tutorial

mohsen ramezanpour ramezanpour.mohsen at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 16:02:56 CET 2011


Ok.Thank you very much

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> mohsen ramezanpour wrote:
>
>> Dear Dr.justin
>> Thank you.You are right.
>> I did what you said.
>>
>> please let me know the answer of my other question in first email:
>> I am doing iteration more than 26 times that you said in your tutorial.
>> I am in 28th step now and my area per lipid is 63 and I think it is
>> lowering everytimes I do iteration.
>> In the other words it seems it dosen't converge!!
>>
>
> It won't.  InflateGRO does what you tell it.  If you keep squishing the
> lipids, it will happily create an unstable system.  You have to know when to
> stop.
>
> -Justin
>
>  What do you think?
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu<mailto:
>> jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>    mohsen ramezanpour wrote:
>>
>>        Dear Dr.Justin
>>        Yes,I know,it deleted some lipids according to inflateGRO script
>>        in the first timethat I used perl command.
>>        Besides:
>>        I did iteration 25 times correctly,and no addition or doubling
>>        was occured.
>>        I used the same commands of  25th iteration.of course I changed
>>        numberes from 25 to 26 in commands.
>>        I think it is because I have compacted my lipids more than it is
>>        required.
>>
>>
>>    Over-packing your lipids will not cause your coordinate file to
>>    magically be doubled.
>>
>>
>>        my commands are as below:
>>        after doing EM for output of 25th iteration(its output were
>>        EM-inflate-26.*) I entered :
>>
>>        trjconv     -f  EM-inflate-26.trr       -s  EM-inflate-26.tpr
>>       -o   EM-inflate-26-trj.gro       -pbc   mol     -ur   compact
>>
>>
>>    Here's the problem.  You're converting a .trr (which presumably has
>>    2 frames) and converting it to a multi-frame .gro file.  All you
>>    need is to fix the PBC on the final frame, i.e. the .gro file that
>>    mdrun writes.
>>
>>    -Justin
>>
>>        perl     inflategro        EM-inflate-26-trj.gro      0.95
>>        DPPC      0        system_shrink26.gro      5
>> area_shrink26.dat
>>        grompp      -f      minim-strong.mdp       -c
>> system_shrink26.gro        -p    topol.top         -o
>>  EM-inflate-27.tpr
>>
>>        thanks in advance for your reply
>>
>>
>>        On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Justin A. Lemkul
>>        <jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>
>>        <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>           mohsen ramezanpour wrote:
>>
>>               Dear all
>>
>>               I am doing Membrane -protein tutorial.
>>               Actually I did each step carefully,I could score down my
>>        lipids
>>               26 times.
>>               But there were two problems:
>>               1-I get ~77 A for area per lipid in 26th step not 71 as
>>               Dr.Justin has said
>>               2-I tried to do more iteration to make closer my area per
>>        lipid
>>               to 71,But I get the following error:
>>               Program grompp, VERSION 4.0.7
>>               Source code file: ../../../../src/kernel/grompp.c, line: 362
>>
>>               Fatal error:
>>               number of coordinates in coordinate file
>>        (system_shrink26.gro,
>>               12876)
>>                           does not match topology (topol.top, 6438)
>>
>>               I checked and I found program has added some additional DPPC
>>               molecules to my system!!
>>
>>
>>           InflateGRO does not add lipids, it deletes them.  Whatever
>> you've
>>           done has exactly doubled the system.  You've managed to
>>        concatenate
>>           coordinate files or otherwise manipulate it in some
>>        nonsensical way.
>>            Without seeing the command you used it's impossible to say.
>>
>>           -Justin
>>
>>
>>               Besides I get 32 A area per lipid for this step!!!
>>
>>               Please let me know what is the reason.
>>               Thanks in advance
>>               Mohsen
>>
>>
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