[gmx-users] MD after equilibration phase

bipin singh bipinelmat at gmail.com
Fri Apr 6 16:36:14 CEST 2012


Thanks for your comments.
One more question.
Does Gromacs saves velocities in pdb files, when we use gen_vel=yes option
in mdp and save the output(-c) of mdrun as pdb file instead of gro file.

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 19:48, Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au> wrote:

>  On 7/04/2012 12:15 AM, bipin singh wrote:
>
> When we mention
> gen_vel=no ;And provide pdb as input with no velocities
>
> As mentioned in the manual:
> "The velocities are set to zero when there are no velocities in the input
> structure file"
>
> Please elaborate what does this sentence mean.
>
>
> Each atom must have a velocity in a *dynamical* simulation. If there is no
> instruction for what values to use (i.e. not generated or supplied), zero
> is used. Integration proceeds from there, and this may or may not be
> stable, and certainly will not have the desired temperature (yet)...
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 19:10, Justin A. Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> bipin singh wrote:
>>
>>> Also, if we give continuation=yes in mdp file and use input as pdb file
>>> as input instead of gro file, grompp never complains....I don't no how it
>>> reads velocities from pdb file (as no velocities are present in pdb files).
>>> Ideally it should complain that no velocities found in input file....
>>>
>>>
>>  Again, the "continuation" keyword has nothing to do with velocities.  If
>> you have "gen_vel = no" and you provide a .pdb file with no velocities,
>> then you do not preserve velocity information.  Whatever the initial forces
>> are govern the resulting motions.  In any case, you do not preserve the
>> previous simulation conditions.
>>
>> -Justin
>>
>>   On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:42, Peter C. Lai <pcl at uab.edu <mailto:
>>> pcl at uab.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    On 2012-04-06 11:05:51AM +0400, James Starlight wrote:
>>>     > Dear Gromacs users!
>>>     >
>>>     >
>>>     > I have small question about order of the runs and input data.
>>>     >
>>>     > Ussually I do 2 equilibration phases and subsequent productive
>>>    phase in the
>>>     > conditions wich are equal to the last equilibration phase ( e.g
>>>    often this
>>>     > is npt ).
>>>     >
>>>     > In the second equil.mdp and md.mdp there is option
>>>     >
>>>     > continuation             = yes
>>>     >
>>>     > which means that there have been previous phases of the
>>>    simulation from
>>>     > wich  coordinates and velocities should be taken.
>>>     >
>>>     > As I understood the coordinates is taken from .gro file but from
>>>    what file
>>>     > the velocities must be providen ? Does it .cpt checkpoint file from
>>>     > previous run? In some cases I've forgotten to define -t npt.cpt
>>>    for my MD
>>>     > run providing only coordinates in GRO file, topology and md.mdp
>>>    but I have
>>>     > not seen any errors in such simulation due to absence of that
>>>    .cpt and
>>>     > GROMPP never remind me of the absense of this file. What exactly
>>>    is in that
>>>     > .cpt file and from wich source the velocities from equilibration
>>>    phase are
>>>     > taken ?
>>>
>>>    continuation = yes is telling LINCS that it is a continuation and
>>>    it should not attempt to refit the constrained bonds on the first
>>> pass.
>>>
>>>    The coords, velocities, state, and box information are taken either
>>>    from the
>>>    cpt file or you can specify the previous .trr and it will take the
>>>    last frame
>>>    from that and use it. If you used the output gro file without -t, then
>>>    it will take coordinates and velocities from the .gro but the
>>>    problem there
>>>    is the limited precision (3 decimal points for each).
>>>
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>>
>> Justin A. Lemkul
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