[gmx-users] Error during NVT

neha bharti nehabharty123 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 31 09:35:24 CET 2015


Hello all

I am performing molecular dynamics simulation of Protein-Ligand complex in
water.
I docked the ligand molecule and performed its molecular dynamics
simulation using  GROMOS96 53a6 force field. The ligand itp file is
generated with the help of prodrg.

But during the NVT the system giving the following error message.


Step 0, time 0 (ps)  LINCS WARNING
relative constraint deviation after LINCS:
rms 3.475746, max 40.868980 (between atoms 2137 and 2136)
bonds that rotated more than 30 degrees:
 atom 1 atom 2  angle  previous, current, constraint length
   2174   2175   71.9    0.1010   0.0941      0.1000
   2172   2174   74.8    0.1370   0.2308      0.1340
   2079   2080   59.1    0.1531   0.2078      0.1530
   2080   2081   87.3    0.1540   0.3014      0.1530
   2082   2084  107.8    0.1257   1.2267      0.1250
   2082   2083   52.0    0.1243   0.6202      0.1250
   2137   2136   88.0    0.1345   5.5686      0.1330
   2139   2137  123.5    0.1403   5.7269      0.1390
   2138   2137   90.3    0.1102   4.0876      0.1090
   2141   2139   88.3    0.1396   2.0444      0.1390
   2140   2139   83.8    0.1095   0.5954      0.1090
   2143   2141   90.4    0.1402   3.6931      0.1390
   2142   2141   89.3    0.1095   1.2808      0.1090
   2145   2143   89.3    0.1344   4.1272      0.1330
   2144   2143   90.1    0.1103   2.9604      0.1090
   2146   2145   99.7    0.1337   0.1015      0.1330
   2147   2146   88.7    0.1354   0.2207      0.1330
   2135   2134   67.1    0.1011   0.1855      0.1000
   2147   2134   77.5    0.1355   0.2555      0.1330
   2136   2134  117.3    0.1338   0.1883      0.1330
   2005   2007   87.6    0.1475   2.9044      0.1330
   1995   1996  138.0    0.1602   1.7197      0.1530
   1997   1999  135.4    0.1334   0.1773      0.1330
   1999   2003   45.6    0.1331   0.1962      0.1330
   1999   2000   41.3    0.1091   0.1553      0.1090
   1997   1998  126.5    0.1334   0.1666      0.1330
   1998   2001   41.8    0.1330   0.1821      0.1330
   1993   1995  128.4    0.1540   1.7394      0.1470
   1991   1992  127.1    0.1238   0.1164      0.1230
   1981   1991   71.5    0.1537   0.1183      0.1530
   2007   2009   63.9    0.1466   4.1114      0.1470
   2007   2008   64.6    0.0989   2.4912      0.1000
   2014   2016   79.3    0.1352   0.2778      0.1330
   2014   2015   53.1    0.1247   0.3961      0.1230
   2016   2018   65.0    0.1480   0.0770      0.1470
   2016   2017  108.7    0.1007   0.1168      0.1000
   2167   2162   87.8    0.1420   3.1317      0.1390
   2163   2162   84.0    0.1418   1.3696      0.1390
   2165   2163   82.9    0.1400   1.1678      0.1390
   2164   2163   84.9    0.1100   0.9701      0.1090
   2171   2165   64.1    0.1417   0.3248      0.1390
   2166   2165   79.7    0.1101   0.4717      0.1090
   2169   2167   87.8    0.1401   4.7298      0.1390
   2168   2167   88.1    0.1102   2.2550      0.1090
   2171   2169   88.0    0.1420   3.3899      0.1390
   2170   2169   86.2    0.1103   1.1563      0.1090
   2172   2171   50.8    0.1411   0.4534      0.1390
   2157   2149   33.0    0.1400   0.2001      0.1390
   2157   2155   38.3    0.1397   0.2003      0.1390
   2158   2157   66.0    0.1346   0.2301      0.1330
   2160   2158   68.3    0.1366   0.2874      0.1340
   2159   2158   73.0    0.1009   0.1552      0.1000
   2162   2160   68.3    0.1411   0.7325      0.1390
   2161   2160   73.0    0.1246   0.2199      0.1230
   2009   2014  125.4    0.1616   2.0048      0.1530
   2009   2010  123.0    0.1607   1.8944      0.1530
   2010   2011   71.0    0.1542   0.5384      0.1530
   2011   2013  114.5    0.1253   0.1983      0.1250
   2011   2012  106.1    0.1253   0.1982      0.1250
   2174   2172   67.9    0.1370   0.3000      0.1340
   2173   2172   73.5    0.1247   0.2299      0.1230
   2176   2174   61.6    0.1347   0.2307      0.1330
   2175   2174   75.9    0.1010   0.1757      0.1000
   2179   2176   41.2    0.1398   0.2094      0.1390
   2177   2176   39.6    0.1398   0.2097      0.1390

Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
Wrote pdb files with previous and current coordinates
step 0Warning: 1-4 interaction between 2136 and 2141 at distance 2.463
which is larger than the 1-4 table size 2.400 nm
These are ignored for the rest of the simulation
This usually means your system is exploding,
if not, you should increase table-extension in your mdp file
or with user tables increase the table size
-------------------------------------------------------
Program mdrun, VERSION 4.5.5
Source code file: /build/buildd/gromacs-4.5.5/src/mdlib/pme.c, line: 538

Fatal error:
1 particles communicated to PME node 4 are more than 2/3 times the cut-off
out of the domain decomposition cell of their charge group in dimension x.
This usually means that your system is not well equilibrated.
For more information and tips for troubleshooting, please check the GROMACS
website at http://www.gromacs.org/Documentation/Errors




But when I change the lincs constraints from all_bond to h-bonds it run
successfully. Is this a correct way??
Following are my em.mdp and nvt.mdp file :

EM.mdp file:

title        = Minimization    ; Title of run

; Parameters describing what to do, when to stop and what to save
integrator    = steep        ; Algorithm (steep = steepest descent
minimization)
emtol        = 1000.0      ; Stop minimization when the maximum force <
10.0 kJ/mol
emstep          = 0.01          ; Energy step size
nsteps        = 50000          ; Maximum number of (minimization) steps to
perform
energygrps    = Protein <0>     ; Which energy group(s) to write to disk

; Parameters describing how to find the neighbors of each atom and how to
calculate the interactions
nstlist            = 1                ; Frequency to update the neighbor
list and long range forces
ns_type            = grid        ; Method to determine neighbor list
(simple, grid)
rlist            = 1.0        ; Cut-off for making neighbor list (short
range forces)
coulombtype        = PME        ; Treatment of long range electrostatic
interactions
rcoulomb        = 1.0        ; long range electrostatic cut-off
rvdw            = 1.0        ; long range Van der Waals cut-off
pbc            = xyz         ; Periodic Boundary Conditions


NVT.mdp file:

title       = Protein-ligand complex NVT equilibration
define      = -DPOSRES  ; position restrain the protein and ligand

; Run parameters
integrator  = md        ; leap-frog integrator
nsteps      = 1000000     ; 2 * 1000000 = 2000 ps
dt          = 0.002     ; 2 fs
; Output control
nstxout     = 500
nstvout     = 500
nstenergy   = 500
nstlog      = 500
energygrps  = Protein <0>
; Bond parameters
continuation               = no
constraint_algorithm       = lincs
constraints               = h-bonds
lincs_iter               = 1
lincs_order              = 4
; Neighborsearching
ns_type         = grid      ; search neighboring grid cells
nstlist         = 10        ; 20 fs, largely irrelevant with Verlet
rcoulomb        = 1.4       ; short-range electrostatic cutoff (in nm)
rlist           = 1.4
rvdw            = 1.4       ; short-range van der Waals cutoff (in nm)

; Electrostatics
coulombtype     = PME       ; Particle Mesh Ewald for long-range
electrostatics
pme_order       = 4         ; cubic interpolation
fourierspacing  = 0.16      ; grid spacing for FFT
; Temperature coupling
tcoupl      = V-rescale                     ; modified Berendsen thermostat
tc-grps     = Protein_<0> Water_and_ions    ; two coupling groups - more
accurate
tau_t       = 0.1   0.1                     ; time constant, in ps
ref_t       = 300   300                     ; reference temperature, one
for each group, in K
; Pressure coupling
pcoupl      = no        ; no pressure coupling in NVT
; Periodic boundary conditions
pbc         = xyz       ; 3-D PBC
; Dispersion correction
DispCorr    = EnerPres  ; account for cut-off vdW scheme
; Velocity generation
gen_vel     = yes       ; assign velocities from Maxwell distribution
gen_temp    = 300       ; temperature for Maxwell distribution
gen_seed    = -1        ; generate a random seed


Please Help.

With Regards
Neha Bharti


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