[gmx-users] g_wham error

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Sun Nov 20 20:02:41 CET 2011



rajat desikan wrote:
> My simulations are for 10 ns in each window. There is a lot of noise in 
> my wham too. I am enclosing my wham for pullf (the earlier was pullx) 
> and pmf. They are really looking strange. Stronger restraint means force 
> constant? >From literature, I kept it at 3000.
> 

Those plots do look very strange.  The PMF is almost a step function, which is 
certainly wrong.  You may need either more simulation time or more frequent 
collection of data points, but at this stage I can only guess.  Not much more I 
can offer, sorry.

A stronger restraint would mean a stronger force constant, yes, but if you're 
using 3000 to restrain simple molecules like methane, I think there is no need 
to increase it.

-Justin

> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu 
> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     rajat desikan wrote:
> 
>         hi Justin
>         I am not able to tell where the lack of overlap is. This is the
>         first wham plot I am looking at. In your tutorial and
>         literature, the wham plots are so clear. Can you please help me?
>         Thanks.
> 
> 
>     It looks like your first one or two windows were not restrained
>     sufficiently at the desired distance.  The error complains that bin
>     2 should have points at 0.366 nm, but it appears neither bin 1 nor
>     bin 2 satisfy this requirement. Check carefully what you have set
>     for reference distances and what distances were actually maintained
>     during the sampling.  You may need a stronger restraint or longer
>     simulations.  How long are the simulations?  I see that you're
>     starting the analysis on data after 2 ns, but how much does that leave?
> 
>     -Justin
> 
>         On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:50 PM, rajat desikan
>         <rajatdesikan at gmail.com <mailto:rajatdesikan at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:rajatdesikan at gmail.com
>         <mailto:rajatdesikan at gmail.com>__>> wrote:
> 
>            Oh lovely...thanks for the quick reply Justin :)...
> 
> 
>            On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Justin A. Lemkul
>         <jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>
>            <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>                rajat desikan wrote:
> 
>                    Hi
>                    I am a new gromacs user. I just completed Justin's
>         umbrella
>                    sampling tutorial. I am doing a PMF calculation between 2
>                    methane molecules in water. The simulation has run
>         fine till
>                    the g_wham step. My command is
> 
>                    -- g_wham -it tpr-files.dat -if pullf-files.dat -o -hist
>                    -unit kCal -b 2000
> 
>                    I get a warning:
>                    WARNING, no data point in bin 2 (z=0.366256) !
>                    You may not get a reasonable profile. Check your
>         histograms!
> 
>                    and my histogram contains a single peak.
> 
>                    I have pulled my other methane 1 nm away from the first
>                    methane. I have 15 sampling windows (0.05 nm apart
>         till 5nm
>                    and then 1 nm apart)...can you please tell me how to
>         correct
>                    this?
> 
> 
>                With 15 windows, you should have 15 histograms.  Plot with:
> 
>                xmgrace -nxy histo.xvg
> 
>                It will show you where the lack of sampling is.
> 
>                -Justin
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Justin A. Lemkul
Ph.D. Candidate
ICTAS Doctoral Scholar
MILES-IGERT Trainee
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
jalemkul[at]vt.edu | (540) 231-9080
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