[gmx-users] Positive energy .

Mark Abraham mark.j.abraham at gmail.com
Thu May 15 09:53:06 CEST 2014


Rather, find out what non-bonded scheme your models were parametrized to
use, and use that! These are often not free parameters!

Mark
On May 15, 2014 6:47 AM, "sujithkakkat ." <sujithks58 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Justin,
>
> I looked at the energy components. What I find is that Short Range LJ is
> highly positive (208522 kJ/mol) . Also the short range coulomb interaction
> (-2028.46 kJ/mol) , although negative looks weak  (I think so , because an
> earlier minimization of a system with methane( oplsaa) in water (tip4p_Ice)
> gave a more negative value for short range coulomb. I expect CO2 to have
> stronger coulombic interactions with water ) .
>
> Do you think any of the cutoff values in .mdp are really bad? I tried
> changing them but still kept getting poor results.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sujith.
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Justin Lemkul <jalemkul at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 5/14/14, 12:39 AM, sujithkakkat . wrote:
> >
> >> Hello Justin and others,
> >>
> >>     Thank you for the response . Here are mode details of the system; (
> in
> >> the order ; MDP settings, itp  and top files) . The system consists of
> 460
> >> water molecules and 1 CO2 molecule . I am trying to find the  free
> energy
> >> of solvation for CO2 in water at various temperatures and pressure.
> >>
> >> *MDP settings:*
> >>
> >>
> >> ; Run control
> >> integrator = steep
> >> nsteps     = 20000
> >>
> >> ; EM criteria and other stuff emtol     = 10
> >> emstep   = 0.01
> >> niter        = 20
> >> nbfgscorr = 10
> >>
> >> ; Output control
> >> nstlog       = 1
> >> nstenergy = 1
> >>
> >> ; Neighborsearching and short-range nonbonded interactions nstlist    =
> 1
> >> ns_type = grid
> >> pbc       = xyz
> >> rlist       = 1.0
> >>
> >> ; Electrostatics
> >> coulombtype = PME
> >> rcoulomb      = 1.0
> >>
> >> ; van der Waals
> >> vdw-type     = switch
> >>   rvdw-switch =0.8
> >> rvdw           = 0.9
> >>
> >> ; Apply long range dispersion corrections for Energy and Pressure
> >> DispCorr = EnerPres
> >>
> >> ; Spacing for the PME/PPPM FFT grid
> >> fourierspacing = 0.12
> >>
> >> ; EWALD/PME/PPPM parameters
> >> pme_order         = 6
> >>   ewald_rtol          = 1e-06
> >> epsilon_surface  = 0
> >> optimize_fft        = no
> >>
> >> ; Temperature and pressure coupling are off during EM
> >> tcoupl  = no
> >>   pcoupl = no
> >>
> >> ; Generate velocities to start
> >> gen_vel = no
> >>
> >> ; options for bonds
> >> constraints = all-bonds
> >>
> >> ; Type of constraint algorithm
> >> constraint-algorithm = lincs
> >>
> >> ; Do not constrain the starting configuration
> >> continuation = no
> >>
> >> ; Highest order in the expansion of the constraint coupling matrix
> >> lincs-order = 12
> >>
> >> *-----------------------------------------------------------
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ---------------------*
> >>
> >> *.itp for tip4p/Ice*
> >>
> >>
> >> [atomtypes]
> >> ;name     mass          charge   ptype    sigma        epsilon
> >> IW        0             0.000       D     0.0           0.0
> >> OW4       15.99940      0.000       A     0.31668       0.88211
> >> HW        1.00800       0.000       A     0.00000E+00   0.00000E+00
> >>
> >> [moleculetype]
> >> ; name nrexcl
> >>    water  1
> >>
> >> [atoms]
> >> ; nr type resnr residu atom cgnr charge      mass
> >> 1     OW4  1     H2O    OW1  1     0         15.994
> >> 2     HW   1     H2O    HW2  1     0.5897    1.008
> >> 3     HW   1     H2O    HW3  1     0.5897    1.008
> >> 4     IW   1     H2O    MW4  1    -1.1794    0.0
> >>
> >> [constraints]
> >> ;i j funct doh  dhh
> >> 1       2       1       0.09572
> >> 1       3       1       0.09572
> >> 2       3       1       0.15139
> >>
> >> [exclusions]
> >> 1       2       3       4
> >> 2       1       3       4
> >> 3       1       2       4
> >> 4       1       2       3
> >>
> >> ; The position of the dummy is computed as follows:
> >> ;
> >> ;               O
> >> ;
> >> ;               D
> >> ;
> >> ;       H               H
> >> ;
> >> ; const = distance (OD) / [ cos (angle(DOH))    * distance (OH) ]
> >> ;         0.015 nm      / [ cos (52.26 deg)     * 0.09572 nm    ]
> >>
> >> ; Dummy pos x4 = x1 + a*(x2-x1) + b*(x3-x1)
> >>
> >> [virtual_sites3]
> >> ; Dummy from                    funct   a               b
> >> 4       1       2       3       1       0.13458         0.13458
> >>
> >>
> >> *-----------------------------------------------------------
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ----------------.itp
> >> for CO2*
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> [atomtypes]
> >> ; name        mass        charge     ptype    sigma    epsilon
> >>     D         22.0049       0.0000       A      0.0000   0.0000
> >>     CA         0.0000       0.6512       A      0.2757   0.2339
> >>     CO         0.0000      -0.3256       A      0.3033   0.6695
> >>
> >> [moleculetype]
> >> ; name  nrexcl
> >>    CO2    2
> >>
> >> [atoms]
> >> ; nr    type    resnr   residue    atom    cgnr   charge    mass
> >>    1       D       1      CO2        D1       1     0.0000    22.0049
> >>    2       D       1      CO2        D2       1     0.0000    22.0049
> >>    3      CA       1      CO2        CA       1     0.6512     0.0000
> >>    4      CO       1      CO2        OC1      1    -0.3256     0.0000
> >>    5      CO       1      CO2        OC2      1    -0.3256     0.0000
> >>
> >> [constraints]
> >> ; i   j   funct    doc
> >>    1   2     1      0.195948
> >>
> >> [virtual_sites2]
> >> ; i   j   k   funct   a
> >>    3   1   2     1     0.5
> >>    4   1   2     1     1.08638006
> >>    5   2   1     1     1.08638006
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> *-----------------------------------------------------------
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ----------------------*
> >>
> >>
> >> *.top file*#include "Oplsaa.ff/forcefield.itp"
> >>
> >> #include "Oplsaa.ff/atomtype.itp"
> >> #include "Oplsaa.ff/tip4p_Ice.itp"
> >> #include "Oplsaa.ff/co2_epm2_dummy.itp"
> >> [ system ]
> >> ; Name
> >> CO2 in water
> >>
> >> [ molecules ]
> >> ; Compound        #mols
> >>    CO2              1
> >>    SOL              460
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> *-----------------------------------------------------------
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ----------------------*
> >>
> >> Thank you for your time.
> >>
> >>
> > So what does g_energy tell you about the various components of the
> > potential energy?  Which ones seem out of place?
> >
> >
> > -Justin
> >
> > --
> > ==================================================
> >
> > Justin A. Lemkul, Ph.D.
> > Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow
> >
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> >
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