[gmx-users] .dat file from gmx densmap doestnottmatchtprescribedtsize

David van der Spoel spoel at xray.bmc.uu.se
Wed Jan 22 22:07:26 CET 2020


Den 2020-01-22 kl. 18:44, skrev Michele Pellegrino:
> Ok, thank you.
> I am counting the elements assuming they are in an array organized in a row major fashion.
have you tried supplying -n1 47 -n2 35 to be able to check manually?

(by the way a resolution of 0.1 Angstrom is unlikely to give you a 
smooth surface)
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> A grid element
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> I looked at the code and it directly uses n1 and n2 you provide. So I thought that it might be that the code reading the file has a limit on the number of characters on a line.
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> /Berk
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> 
> What do you mean by 'element'?
> 
> Anyway, part of the issue was in how I was reading the file; with a little modification of the script I reduced the mismatch, but it still persists.
> Could it be because GROMACS forces a grid with same meshwith in x and (in my case) z direction, so that the used should impose either -n1 OR -n2 (but not both)? Or maybe the issue is just in the format of the .dat output file?
> 
> By the way, the simulation box is 47.72970  x 5.51140 x 35.37240 nanometers (if that may help understanding the issue).
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> Thanks,
> Michele
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> How are you counting the elements? Lines with 3531 elements are very long, so they can easily exceed some limit.
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> /Berk
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> Subject: [gmx-users] .dat file from gmx densmap does not match prescribed size
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> Hello,
> 
> 
> I am struggling a little bit with gmx densmap. I am trying to obtain a matrix with density values from the .dat file generated by the program; however the number of data in the output file does not match what I am expecting.
> 
> I tried to prescribe both the number of bins in each direction (-n1 and -n2 options) and the grid size (-bin option), not at the same, of course:
> 
> 
> gmx densmap -f traj.trr -s system.tpr -od densmap.dat -b 800.0 -e 1200.0 -aver y -n1 4772 -n2 3531
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> 
> OR (equivalently):
> 
> 
> gmx densmap -f traj.trr -s system.tpr -od densmap.dat -b 800.0 -e 1200.0 -aver y -bin 0.01
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> 
> In both cases I get a dimension mismatch (I expect 16849932 values but I get 4359553).
> 
> I am using GROMACS 2019.4?.
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> 
> What am I doing wrong?
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> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michele
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