[gmx-users] g_wham error

Justin A. Lemkul jalemkul at vt.edu
Sun Nov 20 22:35:47 CET 2011



rajat desikan wrote:
> Justin,
> Should i turn off charges on the methane molecules? I have left them on.
> 

What force field are you using?  If you've got an all-atom model of methane, you 
should have partial charges.

-Justin

> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu 
> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     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>
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> 
> 
> 
>            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
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> 
>                   Oh lovely...thanks for the quick reply Justin :)...
> 
> 
>                   On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Justin A. Lemkul
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> 
>                       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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