[gmx-users] System blowing up in final MD run

Deep Bhattacharya hypergenetics at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 14:56:33 CEST 2016


Hello Tsjerk,

These are the notes that I got before running the NPT equilibration


NOTE 1 [file npt.mdp]:
  leapfrog does not yet support Nose-Hoover chains, nhchainlength reset to 1

Generated 165 of the 1596 non-bonded parameter combinations
Excluding 3 bonded neighbours molecule type 'Protein_chain_A'
Excluding 3 bonded neighbours molecule type 'UNK'
Excluding 2 bonded neighbours molecule type 'SOL'
Excluding 1 bonded neighbours molecule type 'NA'
The center of mass of the position restraint coord's is  3.516  4.410  3.815

NOTE 2 [file topol.top]:
  The largest charge group contains 11 atoms.
  Since atoms only see each other when the centers of geometry of the charge
  groups they belong to are within the cut-off distance, too large charge
  groups can lead to serious cut-off artifacts.
  For efficiency and accuracy, charge group should consist of a few atoms.
  For all-atom force fields use: CH3, CH2, CH, NH2, NH, OH, CO2, CO, etc.


NOTE 3 [file topol.top]:
  The bond in molecule-type Protein_chain_A between atoms 1 N and 2 H1 has
  an estimated oscillational period of 1.0e-02 ps, which is less than 10
  times the time step of 1.0e-03 ps.
  Maybe you forgot to change the constraints mdp option.

Number of degrees of freedom in T-Coupling group Protein_UNK is 5339.83
Number of degrees of freedom in T-Coupling group Water_and_ions is 89787.17

NOTE 4 [file npt.mdp]:
  You are using a plain Coulomb cut-off, which might produce artifacts.
  You might want to consider using PME electrostatics.

I am using GROMOS53a6 forcefield. The system is a protein carbohydrate
solvent system. While observing the trajectory during the MD run, I found
that the system was blowing up.
Please help.

Sincerely,
Deep Bhattacharya

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Tsjerk Wassenaar <tsjerkw at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Deep,
>
> What force field? What system? How many cores? Did you try running on one?
> What error? Did pdb2gmx or grompp give any warnings?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tsjerk
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Deep Bhattacharya <
> hypergenetics at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > My system is blowing up for the protein carbohydrate solvent complex. I
> > have attached the mdp file below. The NPT and NVT were in good accordance
> > to tutorial listed by Justin. 'Please help me solve the issue.
> > title       = CD44  complex MD simulation
> > ; Run parameters
> > integrator  = md        ; leap-frog integrator
> > nsteps      = 10000000    ; 0.001 * 1000000 = 10000 ps (10 ns)
> > dt          = 0.001     ; 1 fs
> > ; Output control
> > nstxout             = 50000         ; suppress .trr output
> > nstvout             = 50000         ; suppress .trr output
> > nstenergy           = 50000    ; save energies every 1000.0 ps
> > nstlog              = 50000      ; update log file every 1000.0 ps
> > nstxtcout = 50000
> > xtc_precision = 1000
> > energygrps          = Protein LIG SOL
> > ; Bond parameters
> > continuation    = yes           ; first dynamics run
> > constraint_algorithm = lincs    ; holonomic constraints
> > constraints     = all-bonds     ; all bonds (even heavy atom-H bonds)
> > constrained
> > lincs_iter      = 1             ; accuracy of LINCS
> > lincs_order     = 4             ; also related to accuracy
> > ; Neighborsearching
> > ns_type         = grid      ; search neighboring grid cells
> > nstlist         = 1        ;
> > rcoulomb        = 0.81
> > rvdw            = 0.81
> > coulombtype     = Cut-off       ; Particle Mesh Ewald for long-
> > vdwtype        = cut-off
> > rlistlong      = 1.4
> > epsilon-rf     = 61
> > rlist          = 0.8
> > ; Temperature coupling is on
> > tcoupl = nose-hoover            ; modified Berendsen thermostat
> > tc-grps       =Protein_LIG Water_and_ions   ; two coupling groups - more
> > accurate
> > tau_t = 2.0  2.0        ; time constant, in ps
> > ref_t = 300  300        ; reference temperature, one for each group, in K
> > ; Pressure coupling is on
> > pcoupl        = Parrinello-Rahman            ; Pressure coupling on in
> NPT
> > pcoupltype        = isotropic            ; uniform scaling of box vectors
> > tau_p        = 6.0            ; time constant, in ps
> > ref_p        = 1.0            ; reference pressure, in bar
> > compressibility     = 4.5e-5            ; isothermal compressibility of
> > water, bar^-1
> > refcoord_scaling    = com
> > ; Periodic boundary conditions
> > pbc         = xyz       ; 3-D PBC
> > ; Dispersion correction
> > DispCorr    = EnerPres  ; account for cut-off vdW scheme
> > ; Velocity generation
> > gen_vel     = no        ; assign velocities from Maxwell distribution
> >
> >
> > Steepest Descents converged to Fmax < 1000 in 573 steps
> > Potential Energy  = -7.58370311664555e+05
> > Maximum force     =  9.53896348096555e+02 on atom 1163
> > Norm of force     =  2.44608995242254e+01
> >
> >
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> >
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