[gmx-users] trjorder not working

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Fri May 6 16:42:14 CEST 2011



shivangi nangia wrote:
> Thanks Justin, that was helpful.
> 
> I have a following question.
> 
> Since in my system I have both methanol and water and I want to order 
> both of them ( my eventual aim to make a sphere), is there is way to 
> override -na option ( for water na 4, methanol 3).
> Is there is way that all the components of the system get ordered with 
> respect to the protein?
> 

If they all have different numbers of atoms, no.

> or I have have to play around ordering them one by one?
> 

Probably.  If your goal is to set up a spherical system, there are probably far 
easier ways to do this with genbox -shell and/or VMD/NAMD solvation procedures 
to build spheres.

-Justin

> Thanks,
> SN
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu 
> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     shivangi nangia wrote:
> 
>         Hello,
> 
>         Came back to the set of calculations I was doing few days back.
> 
>         I have a box of water (TIP4P), methanol, protein and DHB anions.
> 
>         I minimized this system.
> 
>         Trying to use trjorder for water molecules with respect to the
>         protein (eventually I want to make a sphere by ordering and
>         getting rid of the molecules I do not want)
> 
>         In the index.ndx file i specified atom "144" (belongs to protein)
> 
>         so when I run
> 
>          trjorder -f em.gro -s em.tpr -n index.ndx -na 4 -o ordered.gro
> 
>         I pick number associated with atom "144" and SOL ( tip4p water)
>         and I generate ordered.gro
> 
>         The sequence for SOL changes ( random), but when I use g_dist as
>         I go down the ordered.gro, there is still no trend ( ascending
>         with respect to protein)
> 
> 
> 
>     I suspect your index file is wrong.  Presumably, you have measured
>     distances to individual water molecules using g_dist, which would
>     require a custom index group for each water molecule analyzed,
>     correct?  If you use ordered.gro, the residue numbers will indeed be
>     scrambled based on ordering, but the distance will correspond to the
>     original distance, not the ordered one.
> 
>     The solution is to use your unordered coordinate file or .tpr file
>     to create the index group, then perform the distance measurements.
>      Alternatively, use genconf to renumber ordered.gro to get
>     sequential residue numbers, then create whatever index file you
>     might need from the renumbered coordinate file.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>         Also, -da 0 refers to an atom OR COM of the molecule.
>         using   trjorder -f em.gro -s em.tpr -n index.ndx -da 0 -na 4 -o
>         ordered.gro and running it
> 
>         and choosing "1" for protein and "14" for SOL means that gromacs
>         automatically understands that protein's COM is to be used to
>         order SOL (tip4p, -na 4) ??
> 
> 
>     As the documentation is written, yes.
> 
> 
>         If so, then tha talso generates a .gro file which produces
>         random water molecules but there is again no trend.
> 
> 
>     Same problem as above, I suspect.
> 
>     -Justin
> 
>         I am very confused about using trjorder, it will be really
>         helpful if someone or Mark can help me understand.
> 
>         Thanks a lot
>         SN
> 
> 
>         On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:43 PM, 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>>> wrote:
> 
>            On 4/29/2011 11:29 AM, shivangi nangia wrote:
> 
>                Hello,
> 
>                The manual explaining trjorder says:
> 
>                trjorder orders molecules according to the smallest
>             distance to
>                atoms in a reference group or on z-coordinate (with
>             option -z).
>                With distance ordering, it will ask for a group of
>             reference atoms
>                and a group of molecules. For each frame of the
>             trajectory the
>                selected molecules will be reordered according to the
>             shortest
>                distance between atom number -da in the molecule and all
>             the atoms
>                in the reference group. *The center of mass of the
>             molecules can
>                be used instead of a reference atom by setting -da to 0*
> 
>                In order to arrange water molecules in accordance with
>             the COM of
>                the polypeptide, I chose -da 0.
> 
> 
>            As it says above, -da refers to an atom or COM of the
>         molecule, not
>            the reference group. This could be worded better in the
>         documentation.
> 
>            Be sure you're choosing the groups you think you are choosing
>         - you
>            not copying relevant parts of your terminal output into emails is
>            making things difficult.
> 
>            Mark
> 
> 
>                Am I wrong?
> 
>                Thanks,
>                SN
> 
> 
> 
> 
>                On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:29 PM, 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>>> wrote:
> 
>                    On 4/29/2011 4:08 AM, shivangi nangia wrote:
> 
>                        Hello all,
> 
>                        I am trying to order the TIP4P water molecules in my
>                        system with respect to the polypeptide in my system.
> 
>                        The command I am using is:
> 
>                         trjorder -f shape.gro -s shape.tpr -da 0  -na 4 -o
>                        ordered.gro
> 
>                        This runs without any error and ordered.gro is
>             generated
>                        with random sequence of water molecules.
> 
>                        Just to cross check I calculated the distances
>             between one
>                        of atoms of the polypeptide and oxyegn atom of
>             different
>                        "ordered" water molecules.
>                        I found, there is no ascendig trend in the
>             distances with
>                        respect to the polypeptide as a go down in the
>                        "ordered.gro" file.
> 
>                        What could be going wrong?
> 
> 
>                    -da 0 has a particular effect - is it appropriate?
>             Did you
>                    choose the right groups? You could use the -nshell
>             option to
>                    probe what trjorder thinks is going on.
> 
>                    Mark
> 
> 
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Justin A. Lemkul
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Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
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