[gmx-users] Energy minimization of solvated MOFs.

Dallas Warren dallas.warren at monash.edu
Wed Jul 11 06:27:22 CEST 2018


Have you visualised the system to see what it is about that water that
is generating such a high force?

Catch ya,

Dr. Dallas Warren
Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics
Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
381 Royal Parade, Parkville VIC 3052
dallas.warren at monash.edu
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 at 00:57, Nagasree Garapati
<nagasree.garapati at mail.wvu.edu> wrote:
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> Hi
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> I am trying to run some simulations on Metal-Organic frameworks like ZIF-8. I have obtained both structure file (from CCDC) and forcefield data from literature and I was able to successfully run energy minimization, and equilibirum MD (NVT and NPT) simulations on the crystal structure of MOF. But when I tried to perform energy minimization for a system of MOF in water (by putting MOF in a box and solvating using gmx solvate), I am getting following message and forces are very high on water molecules. I am not how to overcome this problem, any thoughts are appreciated.
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> "Energy minimization has stopped, but the forces have not converged to the
> requested precision Fmax < 5 (which may not be possible for your system). It
> stopped because the algorithm tried to make a new step whose size was too
> small, or there was no change in the energy since last step. Either way, we
> regard the minimization as converged to within the available machine
> precision, given your starting configuration and EM parameters.
>
> writing lowest energy coordinates.
>
> Steepest Descents converged to machine precision in 95 steps,
> but did not reach the requested Fmax < 5.
> Potential Energy  = -3.38556029741624e+13
> Maximum force     =  2.45386477264935e+25 on atom 306
> Norm of force     =  1.49337454338593e+24"
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> Thank You
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> With Regards
> Nagasree Garapati
> Research Assistant Professor
> Dept of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
> West Virginia University
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