[gmx-users] Custom urea topology

Mark Abraham mark.j.abraham at gmail.com
Wed Feb 5 17:10:53 CET 2014


[moleculetype]
UREA 1

looked odd. Why do you only want to exclude singly bonded neighbours from
being nonbonded interactions?

Mark


On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On 2/5/14, 12:11 AM, Gabriele Lanaro wrote:
>
>> I attached them but I think they didn't pass through. I put the three
>> files
>> (topol.top, eq.mdp, urea.gro) on this gist:
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/gabrielelanaro/8817709
>>
>>
> Nothing glaring sticks out, but here are a coupling things to do:
>
> 1. With a single molecule in a small box, don't use pressure coupling.
> 2. Try a single-point energy calculation to see which of the energy terms
> is out of place; it will help you sort out where the issue is.
>
> http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/How-tos/Single-Point_Energy
>
> -Justin
>
>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu
>> <mailto:jalemkul at vt.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 2/4/14, 9:17 PM, Gabriele Lanaro wrote:
>>
>>         Hi! I'm trying to write a custom topology for the urea molecule.
>> Taken from
>>         the following paper http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/__
>> 10.1021/jp030534x
>>         <http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp030534x>.
>>
>>
>>         I generated the bonds, angles, torsional dihedrals and improper
>> dihedrals.
>>         The scenario is as follows:
>>
>>         1) If I leave the bonds section the thing works with or without
>> constraints
>>         2) If I include the angles and leave constraints off. It works.
>> If I put
>>         constraints on, it gives segfault due to lincs errors.
>>         3) If I include the dihedrals it doesn't work, with or without
>> LINCS
>>
>>         The simulation consists in a single urea molecule, I used a
>> really small
>>         timestep to figure out what's happening.
>>
>>         I'm having hard time spotting where the problem exactly is and
>> how to solve
>>         it. Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>     You'll need to post the actual topology you have produced in order
>> for us to
>>     comment on it.  Perhaps something obvious is wrong, but we won't be
>> able to
>>     tell.
>>
>>     -Justin
>>
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